Perdre les formes

This autumn we will have an exhibition by Anna Font that moves between collage and drawing. The exhibition brings together drawings started without any clear intention or direction, letting chance or instinct bring them closer to a more figurative sense. Thus, "Perdre les formes" has something literal, but also metaphorical, or drawing is playing, and playing is setting aside conventions and letting go, taking risks and not seeking the safety of preconceived ideas. The originals in the show respond to this playful, almost instinctive process, in which the abstract finds the forms that seemed lost, in a taste for surprise and the unexpected. Anna Font is an illustrator and children's book author born in Barcelona. Even as a child she explained things by drawing, perhaps because at home she was always surrounded by pencils, colours, books and other treasures that made her imagination fly. She began painting and drawing under Agustí Roca and Núria Balcells. Later she trained at the Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art (EINA) and at the Escola de la Dona de Barcelona. Telling stories with her drawings is what she enjoys most, and she has achieved this in her illustrated albums, some of which have won various awards, such as the recent XVI Premi Internacional Compostela for illustrated albums and the Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or 2020 for children's literature. She combines her work as an illustrator with teaching, giving illustration courses and workshops at schools and art centres, and currently works from her own studio.