Marcella Barceló
1992 (Palma de Mallorca)
Living in : Between Paris and Mallorca
Working in : Between Paris and Mallorca
Artist's gallery
A former student of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Marcella Barceló lives and works between Paris and Majorca. Her works, exuding an Eden-like quality that often verges on an unsettling strangeness, invite viewers into a suspended, floating world filled with dreams and haunting visions. Various influences can be discerned in her art, notably Japanese haiku and ukiyo aesthetics, as well as Ghanaian movie posters, erotic cinema, and Japanese slashers. Barceló’s compositions, populated by ghostly, solitary young girls frozen in time, oscillate between extreme minimalism and tropical abundance. Painted in vivid and enchanting tones, these works serve as visual diaries. As the artist herself explains: “In my latest paintings, I draw inspiration from haiku and Japanese ukiyo—the celebration of the transience of worldly things, and the notion that impermanence is the only certainty in life. (…) The figure of the adolescent is also central to my work, strongly influenced by Balthus, Lewis Carroll, Nabokov, and Laura Kasischke. I am drawn to the idea of this transformative age, a moment of imbalance that I strive to depict through awkward poses, slouched attitudes, and states of boredom evoked by moments of inertia.”
Living in : Between Paris and Mallorca
Working in : Between Paris and Mallorca
Artist's gallery
A former student of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Marcella Barceló lives and works between Paris and Majorca. Her works, exuding an Eden-like quality that often verges on an unsettling strangeness, invite viewers into a suspended, floating world filled with dreams and haunting visions. Various influences can be discerned in her art, notably Japanese haiku and ukiyo aesthetics, as well as Ghanaian movie posters, erotic cinema, and Japanese slashers. Barceló’s compositions, populated by ghostly, solitary young girls frozen in time, oscillate between extreme minimalism and tropical abundance. Painted in vivid and enchanting tones, these works serve as visual diaries. As the artist herself explains: “In my latest paintings, I draw inspiration from haiku and Japanese ukiyo—the celebration of the transience of worldly things, and the notion that impermanence is the only certainty in life. (…) The figure of the adolescent is also central to my work, strongly influenced by Balthus, Lewis Carroll, Nabokov, and Laura Kasischke. I am drawn to the idea of this transformative age, a moment of imbalance that I strive to depict through awkward poses, slouched attitudes, and states of boredom evoked by moments of inertia.”