Eok Seon Kim

Pep Llabrés

Art contemporani

Pep Llabrés, director and owner, counts with a long haul of experience inside the art world at his back. He has been working for almost two decades in Joan Oliver’s art gallery “Maneu”, of which the last eight years as director. The final part in the mentioned gallery was set as an objective to change the gallery’s exhibition line, ceasing to be an exhibition centre focused mostly on local artists. Moreover, he was the president of the Independent Association of Art Galleries, also known as AIGAB, a position from which he resigned when the gallery that he ran closed its doors in November 2014.

It was in April 2015 when the inauguration of his own exhibition space took place, under the name of PEP LLABRES ART CONTEMPORANI, located on the street Sant Jaume, in Palma. The main purpose of this new gallery was to continue with the tendency that he had begun to highlight in his previous work that is putting faith in young artists that were not only from the local area, together with the incorporation of other artists whose projections were more consolidated. In the vast majority of exhibitions, there is a clear idea of encouraging the participation of the audience, artists, commissioner, as well as any other type of event related to the exhibition.

The gallery has an identity marked by abstract languages, in many cases linked to geometry. This geometric feature is understood in both the two-dimensional and volumetric scope. This group of artists offers us their peculiar vision of space in their creations. Their works deal with more organic situations, and in other cases, they develop their imaginary under constructivist strata of greater demand and norm. Other creators linked to the gallery break this identity at specific moments by proposing different languages which range from figuration to abstraction.

At this new phase, he has organised exhibitions of Natasha Lebedeva, Eok Seon Kim, Ruben Torras Llorca, Gilbert Herreyns, Aina Albo Puigserver, Manu Blázquez, Maria Colom, Mateu Bauzà, Cati Cànoves, Fèlix Coll, Juan Francisco Casas, Monika Buch, Grip Face, David de Felipe, 2monos (Nicoletta Mantoan y Alejandro Dumon), Robert Ferrer i Martorell, Guiem Aulí. Furthermore, he has presented collective exhibitions thanks to the participation of guest artists such as Carlos Cartaxo, Alejandro Botubol, Fernando Soberats, Ramón Trias, Amable Villaroel, Jeremi Ca. Some of them have later become artists of the Gallery, as well as other collective ones with artists which have a more consolidated projection such as Jaume Plensa, Herminio, David Rodriguez Caballero, Pep Llambias, Wiston Roeth, Donald Sultan, Peter Zimmermann, John Charberlain, Miquel Barcelo, Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tàpies, Joan Miró, etc.

Another Gallery’s aim is the participation in fairs, both national and international; ArtMadrid (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), JustMad Madrid (2019, 2020), JustLX Lisboa (2018,2019), Marte Castellón (2018, 2019, 2020), Estampa Madrid (2018, 2019, 2020).

1963	Born in Seoul, South Korea, the youngest in a family of five siblings.
1984	He finishes his degree in telecommunications and sets up his own company three years later.
1991	He moved to Paraguay where he studied Fine Arts at the University of Asunción, and thus began his artistic career, taking a special interest in sculpture.
1993	Through his fondness for the passionate lyrics of boleros, he is attracted by Spain, its sun and its quality of life; he travels intensively throughout the Iberian Peninsula, likes the country and decides to settle there, perfecting his language skills with great interest. He works as a restorer of altarpieces and mural paintings. This artistic activity gives him the opportunity to meet important artists, sculptors and painters, with whom he becomes great friends, both on a personal and professional level.
1997	He enters the Escuela de Oficios Artísticos, where he learns new techniques and the use of new materials. From that moment on, he began his professional activity, specialising in sculpture, in which he reflects Eastern and Western influences with materials as versatile and different as wood, glass and stucco.
1998	He holds his first individual exhibition at the Gregorio de Céspedes Cultural Centre in Villanueva, Toledo. He takes part in a group exhibition at the Centro Cultural de la Rúa in Ourense, and in the II Salón de Otoño de Pintura in A Coruña.
1999	Solo exhibition at the Galería Eladio Fernández in Madrid, he obtains a grant from the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, taking part in the exhibition of artists with grants. He takes part in the IV Biennial of Lalín “Laxeiro” in Pontevedra and in a group exhibition at New Art 99 in Barcelona.
2000	He presents his work at the V Xuntanza Obradoiro Internacional das Artes Plásticas de Pontevedra. He creates a mural on engraved glass at the LG Digitally Yours headquarters in Madrid.
2001	Solo exhibition at the Versión Gallery in Madrid. Group exhibition “Abanicarte”, Centro Municipal de las Artes de Alcorcón (Madrid) and Galería Versión. III Biennial of Plastic Arts. City of Alcorcón, Madrid.
2002	“Signs. Art on the road”, open-air group exhibition in Cuenca.
2003	Contemporary Art Fair. La Cartuja. Seville.
2004	Solo exhibition at the Félix Gómez Gallery in Seville. Group exhibition “Abanicarte”, Centro Municipal de Artes de Móstoles (Madrid). “Señales. Art on the road”, collective exhibition in the Avenida de la Universidad Carlos III in Colmenarejo (Madrid).
2005	Solo exhibition KCAF at Seoul Arts Center, South Korea. ARCO’2005. Bhak Gallery. Madrid. Áurea Section. Group exhibition, Caja de Ahorro de San Fernando, Seville.
2006	ARCO’2006. Bhak Gallery. Madrid.
2007	ARCO’2007. Bhak Gallery. Madrid. Group exhibition at “El Transformista” Gallery, Madrid. ü Art Cologne, Palma de Mallorca, Bhak Gallery. Group exhibition at Álvarez Quintero Gallery, Seville. ü Group exhibition at the Maior Gallery, Pollença, Mallorca.
2008	Group exhibition “Artists against climate change”, Obra Social de Castilla-La Mancha, and Diputación Provincial de Cuenca. Group exhibition “Metamorphosis”, Palacio de la Mosquera, Arenas de San Pedro, Ávila. KIAF, Korean International Art Fair, Fernando Pradilla de Madrid Gallery, Seoul.
2009	Group exhibition Schema Museum, Cheang Ju, Korea. KIAF, Korean International Art Fair, Galería Fernando Pradilla de Madrid, Seoul.
2010	Group exhibition “Migraciones y Encuentros”, III International Festival of the Arts, Palacio de la Mosquera, Arenas de San Pedro, Ávila. KIAF, Korean International Art Fair, Fernando Pradilla de Madrid Gallery, Seoul.
2011	Group exhibition “Memories”, IV International Festival of the Arts, Palacio de la Mosquera, Arenas de San Pedro, Ávila. KIAF, Korean International Art Fair, Fernando Pradilla Gallery of Madrid, Seoul. Solo exhibition at the Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich, Germany.
2012	Beirut Art Fair, Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich. Exhibition at the Fernando Latorre Gallery in Madrid. KIAF, Korean International Art Fair, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Seoul. Group exhibition “Seis Miradas”, Círculo de Artes, Toledo. Solo exhibition at the Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich, Germany.
2013	Art Madrid Fair, Fernando Latorre Gallery, Madrid. Solo exhibition, Art Paris Fair 2013, Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich. Group exhibition “12 x 12” at the Galería Félix Gómez, Seville. Group exhibition “Sommernachtsträume”, Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich. SUMMA Madrid Art Fair 2013, Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich. Group exhibition “Espacio e Identidad”, Pasaje Fuencarral 77, Madrid. Group exhibition “Op & Cinetic Art: New and Now”, Galería Punto, Valencia. Group exhibition “Lenguajes en papel IV”, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid.
2014	Group exhibition, Centro Cultural Coreano, Madrid, February 2014. Group exhibition, Art Fair “Art Madrid 2014”, Fernando Latorre Gallery, Madrid. Solo exhibition, Art Fair “ART14 London”, Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich, London. Solo exhibition, Galerie Wolkonsky, Munich. Group exhibition, UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate, UK. Duo exhibition, Art Fair “Art Vilnius 14”, Lithuania, Galerie Wolkonsky.
2015	Group exhibition “Las Geometrías Posibles”, Odalys Gallery, Madrid. Group exhibition, Art Fair “Art Madrid 15”, Fernando Latorre Gallery, Madrid. Solo exhibition, Centro Cultural Coreano, Madrid, 2015. Solo exhibition, Pep Llabrés Gallery, Nit de l’Art, Palma de Mallorca.

Pep Llabrés

Art contemporani

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