Ana Corberó is a Catalan

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

whose work includes

paintings Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or " support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush. Other implements, ...

sculptures Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

, and

design A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word ''design'' refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something ...

. Born in 1961, the daughter of Catalan sculptor

Xavier Corberó Xavier Corberó i Olivella (13 June 1935 – 24 April 2017) was a prominent Catalan artist, best known for monumental public sculpture and his palatial house complex in Esplugues de Llobregat near Barcelona. He has been described as "widely consi ...

, she studied in the United States (

Dallas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...

Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

) and has lived in

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

and

Beirut Beirut ( ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the List of largest cities in the Levant region by populatio ...

. In 1996 she married

Nabil Gholam Nabil Gholam (born 1962 in Beirut, ) is a French-Lebanese architect, urban planner and the founder of Nabil Gholam Architects (ngª). In 2010, ''Monocle'' magazine has called Gholam a "leading" architect in Lebanon. In ''Modern Architecture: A Cr ...

, the

-based

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

. Her figurative works display a sensitivity to the fragility of nature and the delicate relation between humans and their environment, as well as the variety and complexity of people's inheritances from family, culture, and history. The innocence and simultaneous lucidity of childhood is a theme that runs throughout her creations. Among her landmark creations are large paintings of water surfaces (the ''1001 Tears'' series); colossal sculptures of contemplative, childlike figures (''Little Buddha'', ''Buddhito'' and ''Buddhette'') which have been exhibited in various public urban settings; the ''Postcards for Every Occasion'' print series; and the ''Maus Haus'' design creations. Since 2010, and as a direct result of the Israeli/Lebanese war of 2006 Corberó has published two collections of poems: ''Prickly Pear Poems'' and ''Pettered Patter Poems''. In 2013 she held a solo exhibition, ''I&I = Us'', at the Beirut Exhibition Center, conveying a pacifist message. It had taken her 18 months to put together. She has had individual exhibitions in such places as

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...

Napa Valley Napa Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) in Napa County, California. The area was established by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on February 27, 1981, after a 1978 petition submitted by the Napa Valley Vin ...

Tokyo Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most ...

and

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

Works

Ana Corberó's works share a same taste of vocabulary. For a long time, this artist has built up a language of elements such as space illusions, pedestals and lights as verbs. Some elements appear rediscovered or reconfigured and they are clouds, gaping holes and plants. She also sees her work religious too but in this context this means psychological and emotional constructs and archetypes and such but not only one agenda. Creative and numinous drives come at second but religion is the first priority to her. On asking Marcel Duchamp, he explained that her work is not nostalgic. This art is more of a shamanistic activity. Its aim is to create consciousness. Her work is based on knowledge and observation.This break from the Modern tradition, is again no revivalist arts & crafts position, but rather a universal understanding of the profound value and rarity of synthetic knowledge

References

External links

Ana Corberó's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Corbero, Ana 1961 births Living people 20th-century Spanish women artists 21st-century Spanish women artists Women artists from Catalonia