Josep Mora (Mataró, 1969). Trained in illustration and graphic design at the Pau Gargallo School of Applied Arts in Badalona.
Josep Mora (Mataró, 1969). Trained in illustration and graphic design at the Pau Gargallo School of Applied Arts in Badalona.
He began his career as a student of the Mataró (Barcelona) artist Jordi Arenas. Mora has been combining his artistic work with a signage and corporate image company for more than 25 years. It is from the world of signage that he experiments with materials that he masters, such as adhesive vinyl and cellular polycarbonate, which he uses in his collage portraits.
He began his career as a student of the Mataró (Barcelona) artist Jordi Arenas. Mora has been combining his artistic work with a signage and corporate image company for more than 25 years. It is from the world of signage that he experiments with materials that he masters, such as adhesive vinyl and cellular polycarbonate, which he uses in his collage portraits.
His current work is based on the visual impact of large-scale portraits with a surprising technique. It consists of thousands of dots of transparent gray adhesive vinyl in a single tone that darken as they overlap, and are joined in an apparently disorderly but methodically placed way. When the viewer moves away from the work, it reveals the details and nuances as a whole. It all starts with a photograph, and the work culminates after several weeks of work in an authentic and unique portrait.
His current work is based on the visual impact of large-scale portraits with a surprising technique. It consists of thousands of dots of transparent gray adhesive vinyl in a single tone that darken as they overlap, and are joined in an apparently disorderly but methodically placed way. When the viewer moves away from the work, it reveals the details and nuances as a whole. It all starts with a photograph, and the work culminates after several weeks of work in an authentic and unique portrait.