Born in 1965 into a family of artists at the Molins de Rei in Barcelona, Spain, Martí Bofarull felt his grandmother, painter Carmen Sala, was his most important teacher. Sala gave Bofarull his first lessons in the different techniques of painting, composition and perspective.
Bofarull attended the Massano School of Barcelona at the age of 16, where he specialized in painting, also learning the
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Between 1988 and 1994, Bofarull taught painting at an art school in Molins de Rei, while he continued to participate in award exhibitions in several different cities and in many juried art shows, winning more than fifty. Starting in 1995, he had exhibitions in numerous galleries, including la Galeria Tuset de Barcelona, Galeria Andreu Picó de Palma de Mallorca, Galeria Artnau de Girona, Galeria Terraferma de Lleida, Sala Arimany de Tarragona, Galeria Aitor Urdangarín de Vitoria, Galeria Sokoa de Madrid, Sala Braulio de Castellón Galeria Sánchez de Valéncia, and Galeria Euroarte de Lisboa.
Bofarull also participated in numerous international art fairs, including Feria Internacional Artexpo de Barcelona, Feria Internacional Euroart ’98 de Geneva, Feria Internacional MAC 21 de Marbella, and Feria Interart ’98 de València.
Bofarull has a very distinct, almost palette-knife kind of style and brings his years of classical training in many artistic disciplines to his art, whether he’s painting a Manhattan skyline or a Barcelona café.
A partial list of Marti Bofarull’s works include:
Venice Café I;
Venice Caf I;
Venice Café II;
Venice Caf II;
Venice Canal I;
Venice Canal II;
Grand Café;
I will be in Manhattan I;
I will be in Manhattan II;
Early Night;
New York View;
Manhattan Structures;
Times Square (Triptych);
Race in Manhattan I;
Race in Manhattan II;
Times Square at Night;
Manhattan Panorama;
Manhattan Skyline;
Brooklyn Bridge;
Sailboats in Manhattan I;
Sailboats in Manhattan II;
Port de San Francisco;
San Francisco I;
San Francisco II;« see less
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