Concha Ibáñez occupies a prominent place among the Catalan plastic artists of her generation, and Emilia Xargay, Assumption Maria Raventos, Maria Girona or Montserrat Gudiol.
During his long artistic career, Concha Ibáñez painted landscapes from various regions of Catalonia, of Castile, Andalusia, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, of Venice, Greece, Cuba, Nova York i del Maghreb, and his works are in several museums, among them the MACBA.
His oil or engraving illustrations have accompanied works by writers such as Baltasar Porcel, Miquel de Palol, Marta Pessarrodona, Cesareo Rodriguez-Aguilera Josep Maria Carandell.
The Catalan painter and engraver Concepción Ibáñez Escobar, known as Concha Ibáñez and specialized in landscaping, died yesterday in Barcelona at 93 years, The Canals art gallery has informed.
Born in 1926 to Canet de Mar (Barcelona), trained at the School of Arts and Crafts “Halle” of the Catalan capital and in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, and in his youth he frequented the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc.
After several stays in Italian cities, to Madrid and Paris, in 1960 exhibited individually at the Jaimes hall in Barcelona, and later in the Abril room in Madrid.
In successive years it goes show his works in several galleries in Girona, Figueres, Cadaqués, Lleida, Tarragona, Sitges, Barcelona, Palma, San Sebastian, Madrid, Milan, Vienna, Brussels, l’Havana i Nova York.
He will be part of the SOM 7 group, in the Association of Women Artists of Catalonia, together with Claude Collet, Teresa Costa-Gramunt, Luisa Garcia-Muro, Adelaide Murillo, Carme Riera and Núria Tortras.
The critic Daniel Giralt-Miracle called his painting of “short space, light, terra, nature and architecture within a well-designed whole that is sensitive to the specific features of each place”, while Santos Torroella considers that Ibáñez “practice touch and geometry of the art of painting with a rare fervor”.
The Ràfols dictionary of contemporary artists of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands points out that the work of Concha Ibáñez “it is made of solitudes and silences, resolved simply and sweetly colored, rolling shades shapes with a captivating poetic sensibility”.
23-12-2022 The World• EFE Barcelona.