Joan Ponç

About

In 1953, Ponç moved to Brazil with a recommendation from Miró, where he lived for a decade, taught in São Paulo, and grew disillusioned with the art market, prioritizing teaching to preserve his creative freedom. He experienced mental health challenges and later settled in Catalonia, living in places like El Bruc, Cadaqués, and La Roca del Vallès. His reputation grew in the 1970s with exhibitions in Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris. Suffering from diabetes and kidney failure, he received an unsuccessful kidney transplant from his brother in 1984 and died of a heart attack in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.

Surrealism, Dau al Set school with Freudian-influenced primitivism and subconscious fantasy elements