Joan-Gardy Artigas

JOAN GARDY ARTIGAS (b. 1938) is a living embodiment of the modernist art movement. The son of Joseph Llorens Artigas, Picasso’s and Miró’s favorite ceramicist, Artigas grew up surrounded by both the art and the artists who revolutionized twentieth-century art. Impressed into service as Miró’s assistant as a teenager, he left Spain several years later both to escape the oppressive Franco regime and to try and establish an independent artistic identity…