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Pol Codina’s aesthetic comes not from conceptual ambiguity nor form the interpretative darkness. It is strong, powerful, and clear. The outline of a form from the nature, empty inside, fills up the piece with content. Then, the imagination doesn’t need to do the rest because the artist has already done it. The spectator can, nevertheless, dive into an Homeric interpretation of the fish, the bodies, the animals and into the see of the artist’s thinking, sometimes brave, sometimes in calm. Manuel Patricio
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Pol Codina Pol Codina, Mataró 1983 Blacksmith and sculptor.
Industrial design. Art and design school La Massana, Barcelona. 2013 Associació Acunç de Besalú: ,El llegat. Arcàdia Cafè Cultural, "Artists for gender equality”” 2012 Blacksmith alive 2012. Drassanes de Barcelona El Buit Collective exhibition, Dimarts del Llimoner, El llegat i Llimones del llimoner: with Ricard Jordà , Manuel Prieto, Foni i Manuel Patricio. Collective exhibition St Lluc 2011. Mataró. Obra: llangardaix Collaboration Mostra del Sant Pere més Alt Art i gent, Collective exhibition, Argentona. “Diners amb valor afegit” collaboration on Marató de TV3: Pot de les corbates. Blacksmith show: Associació Acunç de Besalú: Matarem el gall. 2011 Collective exhibition, Bar Tenas. Cabrils Flamenco. La Casa de la Provincia, sala Romero Murube. Sevilla. Collective exhibition with Dimarts del Llimoner.
Collaboration: Mostra del Sant Pere més alt. Mostra Col·lectiva St Lluc 2011. Mataró. Obra: Fòssil ocell 2010 New acquisitions, Mataró art collection, 2006-2009. Can Palauet, Mataró Membership: Dimarts al Llimoner, Mataró. International women’s day, Mataró. Collective mural. Museu Monjo, Vilassar de Mar. Sculptures 05-09, Pol Codina. International exhibition “de la musique avant tout chose” Tamanraset (Argelia) for the Imzad International Meeting. Imzad Museum collection:Teach me mother Casa Gòtica d'Argentona. Sculptures Pol Codina. Collaboration Mostra del Sant Pere més alt 2010. Figurativas '10. Finalist 5th Figurative Painting and Sculpting Contest. Fundación de las Artes y los Artistas: Gràvida. Lended piece to MEAM (Museu Europeu d’Art Modern de Barcelona) [EdT] Escultòric de Torrelavit 2010. Sant Lluc Collective Show 2010. Mataró. L'art en el pessebre Mataroní. Can Palauet: “Matarem el gall”
Col·lectiva Els Dimarts del Llimoner de Mataró. Galeria Tenas, Canet de Mar. Desembre-Gener - Col·lectiva Nadal, “60 Artistes...60 Obres”. Gal-Art. (desembre-Gener) 2009 Collaboration: Blacksmith alive Barcelona 5th exhibition: Sant Lluc young artists selection. Ambit 0, Ateneu de Mataró Collaboration Sant Pere més alt show 2009. Dedicated to Pepe Novellas: Instrument de vent. Sant Lluc collective exhibition 2009. Mataró Collaboration on project 09-09-09. Carrer Nou de Mataró: Trenca 9's Ca L'Arenas Centre d'Art, Museu de Mataró, Sala2: Mirar endins. Interiors > (2008-2009) Named: Punt de partida. 2008 Collective show in enBlanc Individual exhibition Profunditats. Alimentària ‘08 Barcelona. High gastronomy backers: Triticum – Collaboration: 1st artistic blacksmith show. Dosrius (Argentona). 4
Pol Codina exhibition: Sant Lluc young artists selection. Ambit 0, Ateneu de Mataró Collaboration Sant Pere més Alt Show 2008. Live work: Rocalles. Collective ‘08. Masnou, Museu Monumental de Nàutica. Front page for the 61st Sant Lluc collective show. Collaboration: Un repte una resposta, Catalan art XIX – XXI. Ateneu de Mataró. Strasbourg Art Fair 2008. Sala Parés, Barcelona. 4th
2004 Espai Cultural Arcàdia. Mataró: Espines. Institutions Dimarts del Llimoner Association St Lluc Art Association de Mataró Exhibitions comitee member, La Casa Gòtica d’Argentona
2007 61st Sant Lluc collective show 2007. Ateneu de Mataró: Nua (selected) Peix del Maresme, Caixa Laietana, Mataró. 2006 2nd exhibition: Yound artists. Selected. Sala d’exposicions Caixa Laietana). 60th aniversari, Sant Lluc collective show 2006. Ateneu de Mataró: Ser. 2005 59th Sant Lluc collective show. Ateneu de Mataró. Vèrtebres. (selected) 5
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El llegat
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Tronc
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Caixa TorĂ cica 45x35x35
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Ser
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Mini-ĂŠsser 15x15x38
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Vèrtebres
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Ser
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Escòrpora 70x30x85
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ErmitĂ
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Medusa en moviment
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Calamar 20x20x65
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Pop a la pedra 82x60x62
Calamar d’aram 30x13x115
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Rap
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Pop a la roca 68x40x10
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Peix
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Gamba 28x18x8
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Dorsal
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Espinada 20x20x85
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Dos d’un cos 10x20x76
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Noi del ra誰m 20x40x15
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Nus
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GrĂ vida
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Matarem el gall 70x50x48
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Pol Codina Born in 1983, he is the fourth generation of historic Catalan ironworkers and who is in charge of Serralleria March nowadays. Ironworker and sculptor, he has got a degree in Industrial Design at Massana School in Barcelona. His apprenticeship started at the family studio with his father as the master. From the beginning he took up a personal research towards iron and metals expressive language. In 2004 he carried out his first installation called Thorns, and he was chosen three times as an outstanding young artist by Sant Lluc Association about Art in Mataró. Around the middle of 2007, Rafel Codina and Pol Codina received a proposal to carry out the monumental project El Peix del Maresme that was going to be placed at the new seat of Caixa Laietana in Mataró. The project was finished and put in place in 2007 Codina is a member of AFOC (Ironworkers Association of Catalunya) and takes part in exhibitions with Serralleria March. Out of his work, he is completely devoted to sculpture and usually does some individual and group exhibitions. In 2010 he presented an individual exhibition called Pol Codina 05-09 at Monjo Museum in Vilassar de Mar and Punt de Partida In 2010, with his sculpture Grávida he was a finalist at the Arts and Artists Foundation’s Competition and he decided to loan it to the MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art) in Barcelona, where it is exhibited. Another of his works, called Teach me Mother is at International House of Artists in the city of Tamanrasset, Algeria. Consolidated as an artist of the group ‘Els Dimarts del Llimoner’ he usually does some group exhibitions at different places in Spain Currently, he continues working enthusiastically and creating new projects for different fields at Serralleria March workshop
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