Claudi Puchades: My innate facility for the drawing could have done me a real artist, but circumstances have turned me into a career in the media, as director of cultural programs, television and radio, with artistic content. I am a hybrid of artist, art critic, commentator and interviewer of artists and, as they say, I was the only voice in many moments of disinterest by the world they represent. And now that the voice on ICAT fm has been turned into image, I am even closer to their world, which is mine, and yours if you wish so. CULTURAL INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED BY CLAUDI PUCHADES
We spoke to Jordi Valmanya, general director of Barcelona Cemeteries
06/11/2008 06/11/2008
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We speak of the national award of comics and receive the visit of Miguel Angel Gallardo, author of “Mary and I”
30/10/2008 30/10/2008
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Exhibition “Realism and contemporary urban art in New York”
23/10/2008 23/10/2008
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Artistic interventions in the metro stations of Roquetes and Trinitat Nova
16/10/2008 16/10/2008
We speak of the gallery La Rosa of Vietnam and of the exhibition “Beata Ocana”
09/10/2008 09/10/2008
Art with Claudi Puchades
02/10/2008 02/10/2008
Claudi Puchades talks to Peret, author of the poster of the Mercedes
25/09/2008 25/09/2008
Claudi Puchades with Llucià Homs in an interview on his usual art section.
18/09/2008 18/09/2008
Joanpere Massana, author of “The Book of Water” at the Chiesa di San Bernardo de Jesi
16/07/2008 16/07/2008
Claudi Puchades spoke to the cartoonist, painter and illustrator Perico Pastor
09/07/2008 09/07/2008
Interview with artist Francesc Torres
02/07/2008 02/07/2008
Pere Martir Braso exhibits “I was there (VO)”
25/06/2008 25/06/2008
Jordi Urbón out in the gallery Carmen Espinosa
18/06/2008 18/06/2008
The painter Pepa Poch exhibits “Survivors” in New York and Chicago
11/06/2008 11/06/2008
Claudi Puchades spoke to Marcel.lí Antúnez
04/06/2008 04/06/2008
Center for Contemporary Art and Sustainability in El Forn de Calç (Calders)
28/05/2008 28/05/2008
21/05/2008 21/05/2008
Claudi Puchades and Joan Canals, secretary of Art of Catalonia
14/05/2008 14/05/2008
Didier Lourenço, “On the face” in the Gallery Jordi Barnabas
07/05/2008 07/05/2008
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To listen to these press interviews HERE
INTERVIEW WITH JOSEP PUIGMARTI by CLAUDI PUCHADES – 13/11/2008
Spectacular and surprising was the presence of the artist Josep Puigmarti in my art section last Thursday at the “Electric Cabaret” of ICAT fm, with his 76 years of painter and sculptor heir of the pop art and surrealism and a man committed to his present time as a fantastic representative of the art of recycling.
Josep Puigmarti is now exhibiting at the “hall” of general services buildings in the centre of air cargo from Barcelona airport, where you can contemplate until the end of January 2009 his “things” (sculptures), his particular pictorial “aliens” and his sculptures made from recycled items, such as on “Aliens discover Miniblack,” created from glass bottles in the from the brand Miniblack by Freixenet.
Frothy bubbles of Catalan cava are what last Thursday showed the slender, thin figure of Josep Puigmarti, dressed in immaculate white, touched with a high crown of the same colour and with eyes painted black intense which gave him the look of a pharaoh.
Josep said that whenever he leaves the Hotel Estela in Sitges (Barcelona), where he lives since 1995 after a life of true globetrotter, clothing and with his particularly makeup honouring his “philosophy of the eye,” which proclaims the vital need to look at and be seen consistently and with intensity.
As if he was the true spirit of Estela Barcelona, he occasionally walks by the hotel with his original way of dressing to attract the curious eyes of customers, some of which perhaps should have spent the night in one of the two rooms that Josep Puigmarti painted between 1994 and 1995, 110 (Blue Dreams) and 214 (Sunrise).
I suggest you do the route’s El Prat airport – Hotel Estela Sitges Barcelona, following Josep Puigmarti’s trail from the “hall” of general services buildings in the centre of air cargo at the airport to a hotel which, because of him, of other creators and of the general atmosphere is known as the Art Hotel.
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Text and images extracted from the program Electric Cabaret directed and presented by the journalist Claudi Puchades in ICAT FM of Catalunya Radio.
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