Pere Jaume Borrell i Guinart, known as Perejaume, (born in 1957 in Sant Pol de Mar

Sant Pol de Mar

Sant Pol de Mar is a municipality in the comarca of Maresme inCatalonia, Spain. It is located on the coast between Canet de Mar and Calella...

, Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

), is a contemporary artist.

Of self-taught formation he takes clear influences of authors like Joan Brossa

Joan Brossa

Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Barcelona, Catalonia,(1919–1998) was a Catalan poet in the Catalan language, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set (1948) and one of the...

, with he will share work mixing the painting and the poetry.

His work covers a discursive plane of subject matter that includes humans' relationship with nature, the society

Society

A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations...

 of the spectacle

Spectacle

In general, spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates. Derived in Middle English from c. 1340 as "specially prepared or arranged display" it was borrowed from Old French spectacle, itself a reflection of the Latin spectaculum "a show" from spectare "to view,...

, and the reevaluation of modernist painting. He has been exhibiting his work around the world since 1990 in such institutions as the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, England, the Meyers Bloom Gallery in Santa Monica, California and the Galeria Joan Prats in Barcelona, Catalonia.

In 2005 he was awarded the Catalan National Prize of Visual Arts (granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya

Generalitat de Catalunya

The Generalitat of Catalonia is the institution under which the autonomous community of Catalonia is politically organised. It consists of the Parliament, the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Government of Catalonia....

), in 2006 the Spanish National Prize of Plastic Arts, and in 2007 the Spanish National Prize of Graphic Arts.

Exhibitions

• 1984: "Postaler"
• 1988: "A 2.000 metres de pintura sobre el nivell del mar"
• 1989: "Fragments de monarquia"
• 1990: "Galeria Joan Prats, Coll de pal. Cim del Costabona"
• 1997: "Girona, Pineda, Sant Pol i la Vall d'Oo"
• 1999: "Deixar de fer una exposició"
• 2000: "Bocamont, Ceret, Figueres, el Prat, Tarragona i Vall"
• 2003: "Retrotabula"

Published books

• 1989: Ludwig-Jujol. Què és el collage sinó acostar soledats?
• 1990: El bosc a casa, with Joan Brossa
  Joan Brossa
  Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Barcelona, Catalonia,(1919–1998) was a Catalan poet in the Catalan language, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set (1948) and one of the...
  
  
• 1993: La pintura i la boca
• 1995: El paisatge és rodó
• 1998: Oïsme
• 1999: Dis-Exhibit
• 2000: Cartaci, with Joan Brossa
  Joan Brossa
  Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Barcelona, Catalonia,(1919–1998) was a Catalan poet in the Catalan language, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set (1948) and one of the...
  
  
• 2003: Obreda
• 2004: Cims pensamenters de les reals i verdagueres elevacions
• 2007: L'obra i la por

External links

• Perejaume's poetry