Joan Ponç created a world of his own, populated by striking visions and imaginary beings of great existential wonder. He helped found the avant-garde Dau al Set group and always embraced the magical and mysterious dimension of reality. A friend to Dalí and Miró, he shared with them a rich universe of symbols drawn from the cosmos and the animal world. Although this set of works comprises pieces from a range of creative periods, it reveals a remarkable coherence. Some works date from the late 1940s, during his time in Brazil, others are from the 1950s and others still were made in the 1980s, by which time he was losing his sight through illness. Rather than simply depicting dark realities, Ponç deftly used his painting to reveal the grotesque and diabolic matter that emerges after probing the deepest recesses of the self. Screaming mouths and doubled eyes, winged beings and hallucinated figures, animal anatomies and wrathful heads bring us closer to the darkest depths of human beings that are usually left unmentioned.