oriol rius-esculltura-pintura-barcelona

ORIOL RIUS


		Alfa Is Omega Project Barcelona February 2009


Broken Rock Office of Economic Studies Barcelona December 2008


		Sounds of the Lotus Flower Sant Esteve d'en Bas Curch Girona July 2008

Exploring Spaces Without Place Parc Art Cassà de la Selva - Girona June 2007

			The Wall-Utopia of Thorns College of Architectural Technicians Barcelona January 2006



	Break Down the Walls A Punt Badalona -Barcelona July 2005


			*The Wall* L'Auditori Montcada i Reixac-Barcelona April 2004

	...And Other Looks M. Villalba Gallery Barcelona April 2002


			Houses of the Border El Refugi Badalona November 2001
			Houses of the Border El Refugi Badalona November 2001
	Utopia Parc de la Vila d'Esparreguera Barcelona July 2001


			Wandering Around the Huge Delta College of Architectural Technicians Barcelona 2000



	Of Bull and Sickle Raval Bookstore Barcelona 1999-2000
			The Hidden Rebelliousness of the Scalene Triangle Àmbit Gallery Barcelona 1999 Can Sisteré Sta.Coloma 1999



	Traps for a Square Les Bernardes Salt-Girona April 1998
	Traps for a Square Les Bernardes Salt-Girona April 1998		Emerging Sculptures Canals Gallery St Cugat 1998 Garrotxa i aspra Les Voltes Gallery Olot 1997



Far From New York Can Felipa Barcelona 10.96 Imaginary Seas Hospital del Mar Barcelona February 1996

return to Catalan version

VISUAL ARTIST - BARCELONA

Utopia. Parc de la Vila, 2001

Break down the walls

SOUNDS OF THE LABYRINTH OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS
Parc of the Contemporary Arts, ParcArt,
Cassà de la Selva (Girona), May 2007

Remembering Kandinsky, who went deeper on the world of sounds and art.
Seven circles of stainless steel ask for the audience to percute them in order to reveal the sounds that are hidden inside them.

TO THE REPUBLIC
Plaça de la República, El Masnou (Barcelona), April 2007

In homage to every man and woman of Masnou who commited to defend the Second Republic (cor-ten steel, stainless steel, glass and concrete).

STAR OF THE MARINE
Badalona's Harbor, May 2005

Work in cor-ten steel and concrete - built jointly with the engineers Manel Espejo and Iván Lago - for Marina Badalona SA.

A GENERATRIX FORM AND THE REBELLIOUSNESS OF A RAISED FIST,
FOR A SPACE-FLAMENCO
Proposal for the 4th SIFFACUS
College of Architectural Technicians of Barcelona
- Nov. 2003
Oriol Rius (sculptor), Antoni Poch and Xavier Nieto (architects)

The emphasis on form and the structural lines of an egg laid on a nest characterize this proposal of space-flamenco for the Park of Sant Adrià del Besós - Barcelona.

BREAK DOWN THE WALLS (II) is a variant -in a larger scale- of BREAK DOWN THE WALLS. It has been presented in the exhibition THE WALL, in Montcada i Reixac. It is placed in the gardens of the Reixac's chapel, where it was inaugurated on July 2, 2005.

ORGAN FOR TRAMONTANE is a project of a sculpture made with concrete, covered with slabs of colored glass and topped by eight organ pipes operated by the force of the Tramontane. It was born as an outrageous idea, in October 1993, perhaps given by the delirious gales of Empordà.
I wanted it to be like a hurt howl of the wind - expressed through a discordant chord that will only be heard in days of intense Tramontane.
Images. Slide Presentation.

SÍSIF, for the Badalona Comunication Award
A bronze reproduction of Sisyphus has been the Badalona Comunication Award (of Badalona Radio and Television) since January 2001. It has been given, among others, to Julia Otero, Iñaki Gabilondo, Carles Francino and Maruja Torres.

Sisyphus was punished by the gods to climb a mountain with a huge stone on his back again and again. In this work, he represents the unstoppable effort to achieve the goal.

IF I HOLD YOU is a model in scale 1:15 for a street sculpture dedicated to the city of Girona, which I love as it was my own, having been a neighbor of Bellcaire d'Empordà for a long time.

I conceived the actual work in black granite and steel and about 3 meters height.

contact

works

individual works

collective works

how I am

bibliography

writings

links