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House / Studio Durancamps
House / Studio Durancamps
is full of paintings of Rafael Durancamps and it is full
of life. It is in an endeavor to represent the spirit of Durancamps
that all corners of the flat that housed him contain the objects
with which he lived. Maintained here, are the furniture, the personal
articles such as the pipes that he smoked, his lenses, a sugar bowl
that the maid gave to him when he married, as well as the equipment
he used including the smock he wore to paint, that accompanied Durancamps
throughout his life.
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All that is here is an exact recreation
of his residences of Sabadell, Paris and Barcelona. However,
of all the rooms here, it is the studio of the painter that allows
us to breathe in the art in a pure state.
Here is where a good part of his paintings
emerged and became what they were to be. And, here also are
the tools from which his paintings were formed: his trowels, his
brushes, his colors, his engravings and also the chair where he
sat to contemplate and create his work. His was an intense work
in which no new work began if the previous work had not been finished.
It is in this space that Rafael Durancamps passed most of his time,
and not only painting but also reading or listening to music.
When he set out to paint he did so without
limits, He entered the moment by studying the lights, the
shades, the perspective and everything that he wanted to shape onto
the canvass.
The House / Studio Durancamps is in Barcelona,
on the Avenue Diagonal, 407, mezzanine 1ª
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