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Maria Lluïsa Borràs i González

1931 – 2010

Spanish art critic and historian

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Lived 1931 – 2010 (aged 78). Maria Lluïsa Borràs i González was a Spanish art historian, art critic, university teacher and writer.

Maria Lluïsa Borràs i González (1 February 1931 - 23 January 2010) was a Spanish writer, critic, exhibition curator and specialist in the avant-garde and Dadaism. Borràs is known for her quote, "The critic is not a judge, but a bridge between artist and audience."

Education Borràs received a bachelor's degree in Humanities and Semantics from the Universitat de Barcelona.

Career Maria Lluïsa Borràs and Alexander Calder talking around 1969 at the Miró Foundation. Club Cobalto 49 From 1964 on, Borràs was in charge of the administration of Club Cobalto 49, stimulating avant-garde art's promoter in Catalonia- in the third stage of visual books Fotoscop (1966-1979), as author of seven volumes of the collection. She made in two occasions also the photos: for the volumes "Domènech i Montaner, arquitecto del modernismo", and "Sert, arquitectura mediterrània".

Teaching Borràs taught at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from 1969 to 1974, The Fundació Tàpies is also in possession of a copy of the film on this artist.

Curator As curator, Borràs organised some 90 exhibitions around the world Benet Rossell, Joan Rabascall, Xifra, Dorothée Selz, or Antoni Miralda, as well as diverse monographs on Chillida (1974), Moisès Villèlia (1974), Carles Delclaux (1991), Porta Missé (1995), Wifredo Lam (1996), Ramon Pichot (1997), Andrés Nagel (2003), Floreal (2003), Dalí (2004) and Josep Niebla (2009). Not to mention studies on the work of Alexander Calder and Duchamp, which was especially attractive to her, as was the work of poet and boxer Arthur Cravan to whom she devoted the monograph Cravan, une stratégie du scandale (1996).h This private archive is made up of more than 60.000 documents of diverse categories including manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio visuals, etc., in addition to 1.500 books and magazines from her personal library.

Borràs sustained that the purpose of the critic was to share with the reader their knowledge as well as to give them keys to help their understanding of the work of art: Niebla, pintura 1987–2009 Casavells: Fundació Niebla, 2009. DL: V-2204-2009 Salvador Dalí, vida i obra d'un geni: Barcelona. Columna Idees, 2004. Andrés Nagel, una década: Madrid. Turner, 2003. Floreal Barcelona: Polígrafa, 2003. Ramon Pichot Barcelona: Àmbit, 1997. Catálogo razonado de Wifredo Lam (1923–1960) (período español), Volumen I, Paris: Acatos, 1996. Arthur Cravan: une stratégie du scandale Paris : Éditions Jean-Michel Place, 1996. Porta Missé, Barcelona, Atika, 1995. Antonio Zaya, Maria LLuisa Borras, (1995). Cuba Siglo XX Modernidad y Sincretismo. Spain: Tabapress, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno. p. 422. Arthur Cravan: una biografía Barcelona: Sirmio, Qüaderns Crema, 1993. Enric Cristòfol Ricart, de la pintura al gravat. Ed. Museu de Vilanova, 1992. Delclaux: artista i mestre de Tapís Girona: Col·legi oficial d'aparelladors i arquitectes tècnics, D.L. 1991. Amèlia Riera, Barcelona, Ambit, 1990. Porta-Missé, Barcelona: Danés, 1988. Coleccionistas de arte en Cataluña, Barcelona: Biblioteca de La Vanguardia, 1987. DL: 25081 Picabia: Barcelona: Polígrafa, D.L. 1985. (translated to French by Albin Michel, Paris, to English by Thames y Hudson, London, by Rizzoli, New York, and published in Germany by Prestel-Verlag) Rencontres de Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, Paris: Belfond, 1977. Wolf Vostell. Analogien und Antagonismen. Wolf Vostell. Zyklus Extremadura. Galerie van de Loo, München, 1975. Sert, arquitectura mediterrània (text and photography) Col·lecció Fotoscop, Barcelona: Polígrafa + Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1974. DL: B.13-626-1974 Escultor Moisés Villèlia, Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1974. Chillida, Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1974. Gaudí, Tokio: Edita 1972 Domènech i Montaner: arquitecto del modernismo (text and photography) Col·lecció Fotoscop, Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1971. DL: B.19.110-1971 Arquitectura Contemporánea Japonesa (text) Col·lecció Fotoscop, Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1970. DL: B.44.701-1970 Katsura Daitokuji Col·lecció Fotoscop, Barcelona (text): Polígrafa, 1970. DL: B.10.460-1970 El Mundo de los Juguetes (text) Col·lecció Fotoscop, Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1969. DL: B.13.867-1969 Arte del Objeto Japonés (text) Col·lecció Fotoscop, Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1969. Arquitectura Finlandesa (text) Col·lecció Fotoscop, Barcelona: Polígrafa, 1967. DL: B.36.522-1967

Awards and recognition 1987- Premi ACCA (Catalan Association of Art Critics). 2004- "Medalla d'Or" Gold Medal for artistic merit from the Barcelona city council. 2006- induction into the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi.

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Spanish art critic and historian (1931-2010)

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Maria Lluïsa Borràs i González was born on 1 February 1931 in Barcelona.

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Maria Lluïsa Borràs i González died on 23 January 2010 in Palafrugell.

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Maria Lluïsa Borràs i González was an art historian, art critic, university teacher and writer.

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