Manu Ginel

Manu Ginel

The artist dismantles the image of the carefree artist, with a beret and T-shirt, far from the social norms and conventions that the RAE defines in one of the meanings of bohemian. He paints to bring out his inner world and put his emotions in order. He has exhibited in one of the most famous galleries in the world, the Saatchi Gallery. His paintings are quoted, above all, in the United States. He is an artist. But his life and work have a little bohemian and a lot of order and love for a job well done. “I am an economist, I have a master's degree from ESADE and I work in private banking. There is no more outsider element in the artistic imagination than me” , he jokes.

He likes to classify himself within the Art Brut movement, a term invented by Jean Dubuffet in 1945 to refer to art created by people outside the art world without academic training. Like Dubuffet, he believes that we all have creative potential that is stifled by social norms. “I have always painted. My father wanted me to be an architect, he had an interior architecture studio, but when he saw how I was good at technical drawing, he told me that I had a lot to learn. I changed the square for numbers, but I did not stop painting, only instead of drawing rigorously, before a blank canvas, I give free rein to emotions and imagination”, he says. The result is abstract paintings on wood with a lot to say. Through his works he tries to capture sensations and emotions related to human behavior. He seeks that his paintings are photographs of spontaneous intimate thoughts, without a meditated structure, so that the essence is not contaminated. Sometimes he achieves this by breaking down structures and other times by decontextualizing the apparent chaos. “I paint because it is the way I have to express my inner world. When I'm exhausted from the rational world, I have a good time between colors and brushes. But I always look for a balance with my work life and when I am immersed in the irrational world, before going crazy, I return to work with the most methodical and rational numbers”, he explains.
Although he had always painted, he began to take painting seriously when his wife sent two works for a project at the Saatchi Gallery. He had a good eye and his works were selected and exhibited on the second floor of the London gallery, within the framework of a project to publicize emerging artists: Screen. After that came exhibitions in Marbella, more exhibitions with Saatchi Art, at 2on Avenue Gallery in Miami and finally, at home, in Barcelona, ​​with The Club Art.
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  • Manu Ginel - 'Cour' - 116 X 96 X 3 cm TheClub
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  • Manu Ginel - 'Miss Pers' - 116 X 96 X 3 cm TheClub.Art
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  • Manu Ginel - 'Met' - 116 X 96 X 3 cm TheClub.Art
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  • Manu Ginel - 'Friz' - 116 X 96 X 3 cm TheClub.Art
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  • Manu Ginel - 'We Are Four Again' - 116 X 96 X 3 cm TheClub
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