Arnau Alemany was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1948. He studied at the prestigious Massana School of Art of Barcelona, from which he graduated with honors. Alemany is Spain’s foremost painter of surrealistic environments and industrialized cities of the past/future, and is recognized worldwide as one of today’s leading surrealists. He is included in the new Spanish Surrealist Museum along with Salvador Dali and others, in addition to having works in numerous private collections and museums worldwide. His very personal painting style is described as “magical realism.” He paints dream cities, lost, urban landscapes amidst nature, imaginary buildings eaten by nature or time, deserted and surreal cities shrouded in mystery. Under a cloudy sky buildings and objects rise in puzzling environments. There are scenarios where, as in theater sets, lighting reinforces the sense of unreality and creates an atmosphere reminiscent of Piranesi’s hallucinations or metaphysical painting by Giorgio de Chirico.
