Eduard Vich

Eduard Vich (Barcelona, 1952) is a painter and sculptor trained at the Palma School of Art who has spent his entire career in Mallorca. His work moves between figuration and abstraction, with watercolour and mixed media — wax, charcoal, acrylic — as his main languages, and a much-celebrated ability to achieve unexpected colours.

Cats and gardens are his classic motifs, together with female nudes and self-portraits, to which he devoted the exhibition “Eduard Vich, cara a cara”. “A painter can never hide behind his painting,” he maintains. His paintings tell, in his own words, “fifty per cent of a story”: the rest is supplied by temperament and improvisation.

As a sculptor he works with paper and shuns bronze and stone: “my sculptures are part of myself,” he explains, faithful to the idea that “the artist is not eternal” and that the work may share that fragility.

He has held solo exhibitions in Barcelona and in the island's leading venues — the Horrach Moyà gallery in Palma (2000), the Marimón gallery in Can Picafort (2003) and the Museu de Pollença (2016) —, has received numerous awards in Mallorca, and his work forms part of collections such as that of the Ses Obres Gallery at the St. Regis Mardavall Mallorca Resort.