Biography
Was born in 1957 in l'Arboç, Tarragona Spain.
He studied Fine Arts in Tarragona and Barcelona.
Joan Tuset showed his first exhibition in 1976 in Tarragona.
During the 1980s he moved to Canada, where he lived for six years. Exhibiting his work in several galleries like, Edimage, Joyce Yahouda Gallery.
He also exhibited at gallery Cultart in the Art Institute of Chicago, and at 87 FIAC International Art Fair au Grand Palais in Paris. In 1989 he moved to Paris, where he settled for six months and exhibited at the gallery Vison Quai.
These stages were a fundamental change in his life and work, since his figurative compositions gained more strength and tension, and all the characters in his works got a more classical base, and his style was enriched with more personal and expressive deformations.
When he returned to Catalonia, he settled among L'Arboç, his hometown, and the city of Barcelona.
The central theme in his work usually focuses on the human figure, its condition, emotions, its everyday environment, the passage of time and the psychology of art.
The key to his inspiration is in the tension generated within psychological or emotional condition, which is often the starting point of the processes and materials with he finally decides to work.
It also influences on how he relates to the world, his thinking, breathing, feeling, his way of life, and in the end, his way of being.
Seduced by the versatile sensuality of the human body and the image of the movement, Tuset is generating unexpected narratives in his own work.
