Bea Sarrias

Born in 1978 in Barcelona, works and lives in Barcelona (E)

About the Artist

Born in 1978 in Barcelona, works and lives in Barcelona

Sarrias graduates in Fine Arts and has a D.E.A (Advanced StudiesDiploma) by the University of Barcelona. To start, the artist has developed much of her work in Barcelona and became soon interested in architecture and the portrayal of iconic spaces.

Her entire body of work is developed through painting, using a realistic technique that takes its main references from American realism of the 20th century. She is particularly interested in the modernity of conceptual terms and pays close attention to the careful handling of perspective, light, colour, and a clean brushwork regarding formal terms. This is clearly evident in her artwork, which is inspired by the works of Spanish architects such as José Antonio Coderch, Antonio Bonet Castellana, and international architects such as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Pierre Koenig, and Richard Neutra.

All of her projects are a continuation of her previous work, with the common underlying theme being the use of architecture as a tool to express light. Despite the complete lack of human figures in her portrayals of specific architectonic spaces, Sarrias is able to evoke the sense of inhabitation through her representations of interior spaces. This allows the viewer to glimpse the intention of bringing the living subjects that have created a memory of the place through the objects that compose the scenes.