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 (Castellfollit de la Roca, 1963) is a visual artist and teacher at the Massana School in Barcelona. Her origins have permeated all her work: a rural environment, the link with nature, the tradition of landscape painting and the nativity scene. She wanted to be a veterinarian and studied Fine Arts, where the figure of the table and the colour white appeared with intensity. She was awarded a scholarship by the Spanish Academy in Rome between 2013 and 2014. Her solo exhibitions include Abismes (Chiquita Room, Barcelona 2023), ad infinitum_nadala (Estrany-de la Mota Art Advisors, Barcelona 2020), in(certeses) (MUME La Jonquera, 2020), intents (Museo del Mediterráneo. Torroella de Montgrí, 2019), locus amoenus (Rad-Arte/ Bòlit. San Romano (Italy), 2019), Llunyanies (Espai Dieu. Cadaqués, 2017), Natura morta amb passos (Fundació Miró, Barcelona 2016), Via Lactea (Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona 2014), La maleta [blava] 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), Rumiant (Espacios. Girona, 2003), Sense revelar (Espai Zero1. Olot, 2002).