Isabel Banal Xifré

My origins have permeated all my work. A rural environment, the bond with nature, a tradition of landscape painting, the Nativity scene... I wanted to be a vet and in the end I studied Fine Arts. It was there, that the object of a table and the white appeared with intensity.

Castellfollit de la Roca, 1963

Isabel Banal Xifré is a visual artist and professor at the Massana School. She has been awarded a scholarship to the Spanish Academy in Rome (2013-14). Her solo exhibitions include ad ad infinitum (Extraño-De la Mota Art Advisors. Barcelona 2020), in(certezas) (MUME La Jonquera, 2020), intentos (Museo del Mediterráneo. Torroella de Montgrí, 2019), locus amoenus (Rad-Arte/ Bòlit. San Romano (Italy), 2019), Lejanias. (Espacio Dieu.Cadaqués, 2017), Still life with steps (Miró Foundation, Barcelona 2016) Vía Lactea (Artes Santa Mònica, Barcelona 2014), La maleta [blue] de W.B. (Portbou, 2011), Ascensioni (Galleria Enrico Fornello. Prato, 2007), feix petit pel camí creix (Centro de Lectura. Reus, 2004), Allez (Centre d’Art Contemporain. Saint-Cyprien, 2004), Rumiando (Espais. Girona, 2003), Undisclosed (Espai Zero1. Olot, 2002).