Luis Gueilburt

Luis Gueilburt Talmazán (Buenos Aires, 1950) is an Argentinian sculptor, painter and writer based in Barcelona (Spain). He has exhibited his work in Reus, Mollet del Vallès, Vic, Moià and Nagoya (Japan). In the course of his academic research of Catalan modernism and Antoni Gaudí, he has written several books on the subject.

His work is framed in a figurative but not realistic style, developed in various supports and materials, such as wood, stone or metal, as well as artistic installations.

Life He studied Fine Arts (Sculpture specialty) at the Municipal School of Avellaneda. Between 1968 and 1978 he participated in various individual and collective exhibitions in several Latin American countries. In 1978 he settled in Barcelona. His works are in public and private collections in Spain, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru.

In 1989 he made a sculpture that joined the Public Art collection of Barcelona, Euclidean or The Four Elements, located in park Les Corts. It is placed inside the water, in a meandering channel that runs through the park. Made of stainless steel and ceramic on a limestone base, it is conceived as a tribute to the Greek geometer Euclid. The work consists of four stainless steel railing circles supported by a vertical tube in the center of the diameter, in addition to several metal clamps set in the circles, which hold cylindrical ceramic pieces. Thirteen of these elements are found, which could refer to the thirteen volumes of the Euclidean treatise, where he exposes his studies on plane geometry, the geometry of space, proportions, greater magnitudes and the properties of numbers amongst others.

That year he won the contest for the elaboration of a statuette awarded to the winners of the Surbisa Prize for rehabilitation in Bilbao, established in 1985.

In 1992 he produced a public piece for Mollet del Vallès, Monument to Mollet Ciutat Pubilla de la Sardana, in Can Mulà park, in celebration to the city's appointment as Capital of Sardana that year. It is a work of iron and cast stone with a legend of wrought copper and bronze, consisting of an M (for Mollet) around one of whose legs a group of sculpted children is dancing sardana.

In 2000 he made the sculpture Ribbons for the campus of Keio University, in Shin Kawasaki, Tokyo.

Individual exhibitions 1987: Lost Universes, Art Workshop School of Diputació de Tarragona, Reus. 1987: Bibliomeca, installation in the Anar i Tornar space of the Association of Surveyors, Technical Architects and Building Engineers of Barcelona. 1988: Camí Sinuós, Berlin Center B.C.B. (Contemporary Ballet of Barcelona). 1991: Mater Materia, Gloria de Prada Gallery, Barcelona. 1993: Gaudir Gaudí, Association of Surveyors, Technical Architects and Building Engineers of Barcelona and Osona, Vic. 1994: Gaudir Gaudí, La Marineta, Mollet del Vallès. 1996: Gaudir Gaudí, Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan. 2000: In praise of the Shadows, H2O Gallery, Barcelona.