.... "Mejan is an artist who has explored different branches of the fine arts. In his youth stage he made several stained glass windows, among which those of the parish church of Castellcir (Barcelona) stand out.
Mejan has also worked as a sculptor and some of his works can be admired throughout the Principality. As a painter, Josep Maria Mejan has exhibited in the most prestigious rooms in the country and also in the United States .... "
--- "Mejan's painting is one of the best practical demonstrations that the old controversy between figuration and abstraction is overcome, since his works show that the first must not disappear to enjoy the second ..." - Josep Maria Cadena, journalist and art critic
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... "The nature in these oils of Mejan distils its most suggestive colors. The greens of hope, the blues of illusion and the chimera, the yellows of the East. Everything is new and pure, primal and tender in these landscapes , of an enviable serenity.
Virgin landscapes, almost without any figure or any vestige of civilization and despite this, civilly neat and close, landscapes of the environment that is within our reach.
The air, time, sneaks gently between leaves and groves and the light possesses them because they want to be joyfully possessed. Mejan is a painter and poet of air and light ... "- Carme Riera. Writer
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"Dear Friend:
I have received the catalog and the invitation for the inauguration of his exhibition at the Quorum Gallery in San Cugat del Vallés. I will not be able to attend but I like to tell you how I am pleased that your dedication to art progresses and is esteemed. Affectionately. Jordi Bonet Armengol. architect
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... "You feel, of course, in all his works, that chromatic fervor that is the sign of the painter, but you can also guess the winged brushstroke of the music lover and of the one who looks at the world with poet's eyes, yearning to rise towards pure transparency ..." Ánxel Penas, philologist, poet and artist
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... "The immanent calm of his last painting corresponds to landscapes that have somehow captured his attention and that he has wanted to represent to express this personal experience of his communication; Mejan, as it has been happening to many other humanist artists throughout of history, he wants to establish a dialogue with his contemporaries ..." Roser Amills. Poet and writer
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... "His chromatic dominance has also allowed him raids in the field of stained glass, as he did magnificently resolved in the Gavà chapel ..." Dr. Judit Subirachs. Art Historian
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... "In addition, he has given his interpretation of the landscape a chromatic commitment of abstract footprint by fusing the geometric trend with lyric that aims to communicate feelings ..." .- Imma Pueyo, painter and art critic
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... "Landscapes of a nature, in which Mejan suggests more than explains. Real, but, like the landscapes that, using color, are right to measure - physical magnitude - a thing that, like the same music, can only be measured by sensitivity ... "- Francesc Galí of the International Association of Art Critics and Poet
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... "That his work remains the same, continues its constant evolution, but through the same personality, in his own way of painting, with the same poetry, this lyricism that is his own and personal and that makes his work always be the sample of your dreamy plastic poetry ..." José Maresma. ICOM Member Art Archive
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... "A landscaping, in its last moments, absent from all formalistic documentation and reminiscent of nature as orange juice. Mejan, an artist of sensitivity to the skin, expresses itself through delicate spellings, and has a Very clean palette, fine harmonization ... " Rafael Manzano. Art critic
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... "I think that, perhaps, what has made me feel, is that Mejan is, on a vital level, a convinced Mediterranean, and that is why his work becomes a living manifestation of Mediterranean depth. Light and colors clean stand out in any of his oils or cakes ... " Adriá Gual, Director of the stable theater of Barcelona.
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... As soon as he is an artist - and Mejan is -, everything he is capable of feeling and at the same time transmitting, can be said and expressed in many ways, and Mejan chose and continues with success, the inexhaustible possibilities offered by the landscape ... " Gil Bonancia. Journalist
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..." From what one sees, Mejan gives the feeling of being a great lover of the landscape and, especially, of the nostrated landscapes. Many interesting and suggestive points of our land have been treated in the works he exposes and we are often surprised by his personal way ... " Joan Guillamet. Writer and art critic
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revistArt - Revista de las Artes
nº 209 (abril 2022)
