PRINCIPALS OBRES REALITZADES

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE CHURCH OF CELLERS

YEAR: 1995
TECHNIQUE: fresco painting on the wall.
AREA: 120 m.
BUILDING: Church of Saint John the Baptist of Cellers.
VILLAGE/REGION: Cellers (Pallars Jussà)

This group of frescos deals with religious symbols taken from elements of the popular culture of the Pyrenees. With this symbolism, Minguell shows how  wall paintings  become a collective allegory and they can bring cultural values to the places where it operates, without the need of too many explanatory references and it opens the door to a balanced sum of art and comprehensive symbols.

This work of art was done using the deep colours of the pigments and line graphics.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE CHURCH OF L’ESPLUGA CALBA

YEAR: 1996
TECHNIQUE: Fresco  painting on the wall.
AREA: 300 m.
BUILDING: Holy Ghost Chapel in the church of l’Espluga Calba.
TOWN/REGION: L’Espluga Calba (Garrigues)

To paint the mural in l’Espluga Calba I was proposed the theme: The Beatitudes and it demanded a long process of studying in depth the symbols which represent them.

After the study of the symbolic tradition, I decided to create an extensive scenography: in the wall at the back of the nave, a hill (location of the Sermon on the Mount, Preaching of the Beatitudes) is the starting point of a wide landscape which spreads over the lateral walls. Some perpendicular paths symbolize the Beatitudes. The spectator of the pictures will become the protagonist of this scene of symbols.

The altar follows the iconographic tradition of the Revelations with the representation of the New Jerusalem, materialized in the village of l’Espluga Calba.

The ceiling connect both themes with symbols of the inexpressible, light and fire, paths and water fountain.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE OF THE LLEIDA UNIVERSITY

YEAR: 1998
TECHNIQUE: Fresco painting on the wall.
AREA: 90 m.
BUILDING: Faculty of Medicine of the Lleida  University
CITY/REGION: Lleida (Segrià)

The theme goes round the history of medicine and it has allowed to establish some relationships between art and science. The ceiling is divided into four parts which correspond to the medieval conception of the four elements: earth, water, fire and air. At the same time it reflects the commemoration of the 700 anniversary of the University of Lleida, since the interpretation of the four elements is done from the “Regiment de preservació a epidímia e pestilència e mortaldats”, which is the first scientific record in Catalan. His author is Jaume d’Agramunt, master of Medicine in Lleida in the fourteenth century.

The vertical walls represent a  series of images linked to the history of medicine:  magic and

mystery of medicine, the classical world, Black Death, anatomical theatre and the direct observation of the human body, the hands of the doctors, war as a chaos, the scientific medicine, the ecological unbalance, the doctor and the patient, and medicine and thought.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE FOYER OF ATENEU THEATRE IN TÀRREGA

YEAR: 1999
TECHNIQUE: fresco painting on the wall.
AREA: 180 m
BUILDING: Foyer of Ateneu theatre in Tàrrega.
CITY/REGION: Tàrrega (l’Urgell)

The theme of this group of frescoes is the THEATRE. The ceiling insists on an argument it has defended before: the settling of the arts, the memory that tradition and history connects with the present time and with creativity. This idea is illustrated with some ladders which relate consciousness with unconsciousness  and the inside with the outside. 

The lateral walls, situated one opposite the other, and with a similar shape, offer a dialogue between the audience and the scene. The wall dedicated to the audience is an endless display of eyes, eager looks, which substitute the physical presence of the figures. The eyes symbolize the audience, with a rhythmic harmony accompanied by seats outlined through their silhouettes, which make up for their sinuosity. Opposite there is the scene, a large opening of light where two passions meet, the one of the artist, depicted like a mirror of reality or inner light, and the one of creation. The last passion appears transfigured into an evolutionary cloud which condenses the different faces of art.

The first wall is the most visible when you go into the foyer, and the audience sees it in front of them when they get in. Minguell has depicted the muses, all of them symbolized through white footprints, again without the presence of figures, and they become more ethereal and mythological. The opposite wall, with a smaller area because of the framework of the windproof door, represents the city of Tàrrega and the idea of the street theatre, in which every square of public space receives a scenography or an eager seat of performance.

MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE CEILING OF THE LIBRARY  IN MONTCADA STREET IN BARCELONA

YEAR:2000
TECHNIQUE: False fresco
AREA: 21 m²
BUILDING: Library in Montcada Street
CITY/REGION: Barcelona (Barcelonès)

It corresponds to a particular library. I interpret the subject of the thought from a pictorial landscape where the visual effects of transparency and contrast of the colours tighten the surface of the vault. It is a game between surface and breakage of the surface, between great composition and small detail.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTING OF THE POSTER OF THE XXth FIRA DE TEATRE AL CARRER  IN TÀRREGA

YEAR: 2000
TECHNIQUE: fresco painting on the wall.
AREA: 3 m
BUILDING: façade of the mill of Can Jové , in  Estudi street in Tàrrega.
CITY/REGION: Tàrrega (Urgell)

This painting is a direct painting interpretation in the street, in a similar way to the interventions of the street theatre. This wall painting has been made on a façade, playing with reality and fiction: forming a contrast between the images of the real door and the painted one.

Clic here to see interactive panoramic photo 360° (QuickTime required)

FRESCO MURAL PAINTING IN  SANT ANDREU SCHOOL

YEAR: 2000
TECHNIQUE: Fresco paining  on the wall
AREA:180 m.
BUILDING: Sant Andreu School
CITY/REGION: Badalona (Barcelonès)

The theme is related to the Holly Family and it is interpreted starting from an open house which projects to different landscapes such as deserts, burnt cities and fertile land.

As a stylistic aspect we can point out the interplay between the real architecture and the represented one.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS IN  SEGRE NEWSPAPER

YEAR: 2000
TECHNIQUE: fresco painting  on the wall.
AREA: 26’5 m.
BUILDING: newspaper office of  Segre newspaper.
CITY/REGION: Lleida (Segrià)

The theme interpreted is COMMUNICATION and it is represented through ladders. In the fresco of Segre Newspaper the ladders mean communication: the going up and down of ideas and concepts, memories and oblivions, of states of knowledge and consciousness and, at the same time, a direct reflection of the architectural element which receives the mural and the real ladder.

WALL PAINTINGS OF INTERTRAUBE ENTERPRISE

YEAR: 2001
TECHNIQUE: Pigments on white
AREA: 300 m2
BUILDING: Intertraube Enterprise
VILLAGE/REGION: Piera (Barcelona)

Great space of located industrial architecture between vineyards that unite two great ships. The thematic tour surroundings by the cultural roots of Switzerland and Catalonia and extends in the representation of the four elements and the four stations.

MURAL PAINTINGS  IN THE PRESBITERIO OF THE CHURCH OF ELS ALAMÚS

YEAR: 2001
TECHNIQUE: Fresco  painting on the wall.
AREA:
BUILDING: The church of Els Alamús
TOWN/REGION: Els Alamús (Segrià)

The nucleus of the town is the central reason for the mural. The town is born surroundings to the rock and it projects towards the fields that surround it. The town I have represented it with light, with a simple scheme that it gathers the basic layout of the streets. The church, the old silos, and the vestibules are small details that are identified clearly. On the feet of the town they are the skittles, symbol of the celebration, the game, the joy of the children. Also it appears a mud wall that is being constructed like symbol of the birth of the town from the own earth.

WALL PAINTINGS OF PREFABRICATS PUJOL  ENTERPRISE

YEAR: 2002
TECHNIQUE: Fresco mural painting on the wall
AREA: 21 m2
BUILDING: Prefabricats Pujol Enterprise
VILLAGE/REGION: Mollerussa (Pla d’Urgell)

Twin murals which express the duality between the family roots and the concrete  culture. The enterprise is dedicated to the fabrication of reinforced concrete.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE STAIRSOF THE  PALACE OF DIPUTACIÓ DE LLEIDA

YEAR:2002
TECHNIQUE: Fresco mural painting
AREA: 185 m²
BUILDING: Palace of Diputació de Lleida
CITY/REGION: Lleida (Segrià)

The work forms a part of the architectural project of recovery of the ground floor of the building.

The topic of the paintings has inspired by the diversity of the territory of the  west of Catalonia: the landscape of mountain, the dryness, the irrigation, the diversity of villages, cultures and communities and the varied climate of four stations.

More info: www.diputaciolleida.net/minguell

MURAL PAINTINGS ON THE FRONT OF VIVALDI BUILDING IN TÀRREGA

YEAR:2002
TECHNIQUE: Mural  painting on the wall
AREA: 22 m²
BUILDING: Vivaldi Buildingin Sant Pelegrí Street.
CITY/REGION: Tàrrega (Lleida)

Evocation of four stations linked to the four elements; evocation of the mineral and spiritual nature and evocation of the own construction, to the materials and to the architecture. Building located in the Sant Pelegrí street, in Tàrrega.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTING IN THE HALL OF ARNAU DE VILANOVA’S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

YEAR:2002
TECHNIQUE: Fresco painting on the wall
AREA: 20 m²
BUILDING: Hospital Universitari  Arnau de Vilanova
CITY/REGION: Lleida (Segrià)

It reflects the most human dimension of the medicine: that is,  the contact and the interaction  doctor / patient  in a transcendental space as the hospital.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS IN THE CHURCH OF L’ESPLUGA CALBA

YEAR: 2003
TECHNIQUE: Fresco  painting on the wall.
AREA: 40 m².
BUILDING: Central nave in the church of l’Espluga Calba.
TOWN/REGION: L’Espluga Calba (Garrigues)

The second pictorial intervention in this space, with an evocation of the tradition of the manger, symbolism of the rosary and of the Virgin of the Roser.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTING AT THE UNIVERSE OBSERVATION CENTRE

Technique: Fresco mural painting on the wall
Year: 2004
Building: Universe Observation Centre
City: Àger (La Noguera)
Dimensions: 3,18 m.(alto)  x 15,3 m. (largo): 49 m²

The mural, located at the circular wall of the foyer of access, is centred on the observation of the Universe, in an attitude shared between the pictorial creation (art) and the scientific observation (science).

The thematic, so, is an interpretation of Àger's Valley as a celestial dome inverting the position of observation of the spectator.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS AT THE INTERPRETATION CENTER OF THE ROMANESQUE

Technique: Fresco mural painting on the wall
Year: 2004 and 2005
Building: Interpretation Center of the Romanesque
City: Erill la Vall (Vall de Boí)
Dimensions: 2,4 mts.of diameter each.

These frescos were realized in the period of two years, July, 2004 and July, 2005 respectively, in an alone morning day in the context of the summer courses of the Universitat de Lleida and in view of the audience.The first studies of the murals were corresponding to the search of a few forms linked to the Romanesque painting, where the geometry of the architecture had continuity in the composition of the painting.On the other hand, a few symbolic elements were looked for: landscape, man, nature ... finishing finally in an interpretation of four elements, very present in the medieval period.
A great circle of 2,4 meters of diameter and the words painted with the same pigment: AER, TERRA, IGNIS, AQUA, generate the internal structure of a smaller circle of   2,1 meters of diameter that receives the fresco painting. In the mural realized in the year 2005, of equal dimensions that the previous one, the artist realized an interpretation of the landscape of the Vall de Boí and its ways

RESURRECTIO.FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS AT THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DE L'ALBA IN TARREGA.

Technique: Fresco mural painting on the wall
Year: 2005
Building: Parish Church of Santa Maria de l'Alba
City: Tàrrega (Lleida)
Dimensions: 180m²

Interpretation of the topic of the Resurrection across the contemporary criteria that caracterize his work, at the time that they suppose a new artistic contribution to the splendid baroque classical architecture of the temple, work of the Carmelite Fra Josep de la Concepció (17th. century).The murals occupe the left wall of the cruise and the arch, 180 m2 both a total height of 20,7 meters fos9,5 meters of width.

In the wall, we contemplate a scene that corresponds to the moment of the tart of the empty sepulchre. The light that emerges comes out towards a spring landscape, moment of the renaissance of the nature. The great slab of the sepulchre knocked down in the soil and the shroud are the signs of the Resurrection. We can see also the police officers of the entry of the sepulchre, as disconcerted spectators, and also the pitchers of the unguents,which symbolize the womwn who went to the sepulchre to anoint late Jesus, and that werw discoverers of his absence. At the foot of the wall, an olive tree alludes to the garden of Gethsemane, Biblical stage where Jesus was caught.

The wall completes his top arch interpreting two biblical figures associated with the death and Resurrection: Jonas and the marine monster and the horses of fire of Elias.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS AT THE PARISH CHURCH OF L'ESPLUGA CALBA.

Technique: Fresco mural painting on the wall
Year: 2006
Building: Parish Church of L'Espluga Calba
City: L'Espluga Calba (Les Garrigues)
Dimensions: each fresco:40m²

New pictorial intervention in this space with the accomplishment of two murals interpreting, respectively, the topic of the Resurrection and of the Sacred Family

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS AT THE RESIDENCE REGINA ELENA IN CARRARA (ITALY)

Technique: Fresco mural painting on the wall
Year: 2006
Building: Residence regina Elena
City: Carrara (Italy)
Dimensions: 3,5 mts. of diameter.

The work is a great circular fresco mural painting of three meters and a half of diameter risen up to six meters of altitude, that presides the front wall of the residence Regina Elena, a public building belonging to the Comune di Carrara and that belongs to the environment of the new Museo della Scultura, located in the ancient convent of San Francisco and the adjacent square of the same name. An opened door gives out for a way that crosses symbolically the landscape of the marble with the contemporary outline that characterizes the work of the artist.

Minguell realized this work in May, 2006 as teacher invited by the director of the prestigious Accademia di Belle Arti, mister Marco Baudinelli and for the teacher of pictorial technique, Andrea Podenzana, to give a theoretical practical course of specialization on fresco painting to the pupils of last year of the career of fine arts. The mural was inaugurated in the frame of the celebration of the Biennal Internacional XII of Sculpture of the Italian city, throughout the world known by its marble, and was presided by the local authorities of the region and for representatives of  Accademia di Belle Arti.

FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS AT THE FAÇADE OF THE PALACE OF DIPUTACIÓ DE LLEIDA.

Technique: Silicate based paintings on the wall
Year: 2007
Building:Façade of the Palace of Diputació de Lleida
City: Lleida
Dimensions: 15 mts. high.

NATIVITAS.FRESCO MURAL PAINTINGS AT THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DE L'ALBA IN TARREGA.

Technique: Fresco mural painting on the wall
Year: 2007
Building: Parish Church of Santa Maria de l'Alba
City: Tàrrega (Lleida)
Dimensions: 180m²