Joan-Pere Viladecans (Barcelona 1948) Self-taught painter and engraver. The French government distinguished him with the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres award in 1996 and he was one of the artists selected to represent the Catalonian Government at the Expo '92 World Fair in Seville. He exhibited for the first time in 1969, with very baroque artwork, in which there was a great fascination for the everyday objects which became part of his artwork. This first stage was influenced by Surrealism and Informalism, by poetry and music. Throughout the seventies, a process of simplification developed, organized by constructive schemes which were basic and even symmetric, and which integrated new symbolic elements such as letters, words, and numbers. In the eighties, an intensification of color developed, accompanied by an appreciation of shape contours. Currently, with iconography taken from the organic world, he attempts to explain the questions of existence with fundamentally monochromatic artwork. The treatment of material based on thicknesses of paper pulp on cellulose impregnated with pigment and the concern for texture and orographic tissue are the main objectives of his investigation.