ANTONI SOCIAS ALBARADEJO

If I had to describe Toni Socias, I would say that he is a person who represents that effervescent time between the late 70’s and mid 80’s, in those years when art had free thoughts, without tendencies and in which imagination played to creation.

Toni Socias is a singular, pioneering, daring and fun artist, he gives us the opportunity to see and share his world through his works.

The artist is the best combination of education, warmth, inspiration and an overwhelming creation with a touch of madness.

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Biography

TONI PARTNERS. Inca, Balearic Islands. 1955.

Toni Socias is a multidisciplinary Spanish artist, whose works contain a social commitment and are configured through the union of various techniques such as photography, video, installations, objects, and texts to create spaces where he can develop his artistic action with a personal and ironic poetic from a critical and self-critical exercise.

He was appointed Academic of Fine Arts of the Academy of San Sebastián of the Balearic Islands in January 2020.

He graduated in Fine Arts from the Barcelona School of Fine Arts between 1973 and 1978. In 1975 he obtained the Joan Miró Prize for painting, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca.

In his conceptual work he meditates on art in the current Spanish society. There are six main themes: the art system, the attitudes of authors, critics and the public, the spaces where artistic action takes place, the discourses. Each of these sections consists of various entries, such as those in a dictionary, and with adequate and personal poetics.

He seeks to communicate restlessness, embarrassment, discomfort, bewilderment, irony, sharpness, mismatch, confusion and uncertainty.

ExHibitions

He has exhibited in different countries:

-1995 Bamako in Mali VI Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie Biennial of photography

-1996 Brazil. XXIV Biennial of Sao Paulo

-1996 Mallorca DAS ATELIER

-2003-2004 BONN KUNSTMUSEUM

-2012 Madrid ARCO Presentation of the NADA NUEVO exhibition

-2012 Together with his son, he carried out the exhibition Socías2 (Antoni Socias + Enric Socias) at the Rafael Ortiz Gallery in Seville.

-2014 Presents the importance of satellites at the Center Cultura Contemporani Pelaires CAAM (San Martín CAC) / Las Palmas.

HIGHLIGHTS AREAS

In Spain he has exhibited in multiple galleries, museums and contemporary art fairs.

MOST OUTSTANDING AREAS WHERE THE WORKS OF TONI SOCIAS CAN BE FOUND:

THE ROYAL HOUSE OF SPAIN,

THE REINA SOFÍA NATIONAL MUSEUM CENTER OF ART,

THE ARTIUM MUSEUM OF VITORIA,

THE BALUARTE MUSEUM IN PALMA DE MALLORCA,

THE LA CAIXA FOUNDATION OF BARCELONA,

THE SUÑOL FOUNDATION OF BARCELONA,

THE BARCELONA STOCK EXCHANGE COLLECTION,

THE MARCH COLLECTION,

THE BALEARIC GOVERNMENT,

THE ISLAND COUNCIL OF MALLORCA,

THE CITY COUNCIL OF PALMA DE MALLORCA,

IN THE MUSEUM OF POLLENSA DE MALLORCA,

Private collections from Spain, Portugal, Germany, the United States, Japan, Sweden,