ALMEIDA JosLuis born in Buenos Aires (Argentina). From the year 1978 began studying Escenografay apparel at the University of Salvador in Buenos Aires gradundose in 1982. And as Escengrafo, costume designer and director, working on the General San Martin Theatre in Buenos Aires for five years. Also as a filmmaker, designer and director for several independent groups. In the year 1986 he traveled through Europe and finally settled in Barcelona where she lives since then. Although essentially self-taught, he studied drawing, painting and engraving to enhance and acquire greater resources in creating their works. Concentrndose gradually in the painting as a form of expression almost exclusively dedicndose. Aces and in the year 1989 he began exhibiting his work. And in recent years working as an advisor in the Art Gallery of Barcelona Balmes Bassols. * The figuracin de Almeida speaks of a world of bohemian marginality, vital and authentic. The central character of his work, Dadd, (asapoda his muse), speaks of a continuous waste of passion, loss, loneliness and decay, fantasies, and above all hope. Accompany him second and third characters are incorporated in a precise and measured, a second, third and even fourth plane. Merging up more than 10 textures in the same room, make your work estestticamente the height of the most great figures of recent years and become his pictorial novel in a series Collectors ambitious works. The personality of their work as unmistakable, carrying the difficulty that that entails to be an artist not subjugated currents or movements. Do not forget that is what has become indispensable to the majority of teachers in the art world we now recognize as pioneers and creators of a world of its own and unique. * Rebeca López Ponte. EXHIBITION 1989 - Hotel Majestic and Mobil Kultur.Barcelona. 1990 - Mediterranean Art Gallery. Sitges. Artsis Gallery. Ibiza. 1991 - Up & Down Galley. Barcelona. 1992 - Sala Llorens. Barcelona. 1993 - Sala La Caixa. Barcelona. 1994 - Galera standard and Sala La Caixa.Barcelona. Galley Club 24. Madrid 1995 - Living FEAC. Barcelona. 1996 - Arti-Trading. Barcelona. 1997 - Sala Enher.Barcelona. 1998 - Sala Valent.Sant Pere de Ribes. 2000/01- City of Sitges. 2002 / 3 Bassols Balmes Art Gallery (permanent works) Barcelona. 2004 - Foundation Fandos.Burriana. Valencia. 2005 - Galera Torantos. Barcelona. 2005 - Foundation Fandos. Castellny Villareal. Valencia. 2006 - Centro Cultural La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona 2006 - Zarzuela Park Board. Madrid. 2007 - Contemporary dArt FundaciPrivada Catal (Tossa de Mar) Tel: [---------] Dir.email: joluartist at hotmail.com Pag.Web:almeidapintor.com