Josep Ponsatí

Josep Ponsatí (Banyoles, Girona, 1947) lives and works in Porqueres, Girona. He studied in Barcelona, with sojourns in Paris and New York, and participated in actions and group events in Catalonia’s conceptualist scene in the late sixties. His early kinetic sculptures in a minimalist, constructivist style soon veered towards the world of inflatable objects: ephemeral sculptures that tied into the landscape and put him on the map of the conceptual art world. He built his first inflatable work in 1971, and from then on his artistic expression focused on the creation of large-scale inflatable sculptures. As a result of his participation in the Paris Biennial in 1973, his inflatable sculptures received international acclaim. Although these pneumatic structures were playful and participatory, they were always preceded by a long technical process and many calculations. From the eighties onwards, Ponsatí has developed much more complex aerial, ephemeral sculptural objects.