Two wall painters, two artists: Eduardo Sanz and Josep Guinovart. Four locations: Santander, Madrid, Barcelona and Agramunt. Paris, as a city that gave them opportunities and illustrated. Both, like an Ulysses who navigate adventurous, looking for techniques and resources not to fall into a stable style. And, finally, an artistic center for posterity, Centro de Arte Faro de Cabo Mayor, in Santander, and the Espai Guinovart d'Agramunt.

Biographical parallels between Sanz and Guinovart and artistic parallels: the sea reaches Agramunt.

Sanz was born in Santander in 1928, a year after Guinovart did. His artistic career made him investigate everything that was presented to him, both materials and techniques; again, connections with Guinovart. In Paris, I learned about the work of the Japanese artist Hokusai, from which he acquired the theme of the sea, playing with abstraction and figuration, and approaching even the touch of pop art. He worked with this theme for the rest of his life.

The blue of the Bay of Biscay and the blue of the Mediterranean; both, spaces of life and movement that are opposed to Agramunt, with the color of the earth, the stubble and the poppies. The sea, as a representation of freedom, both artists treat it in its maturity, an introspective stage in which no one has to show anything and is freed.

Sanz died in April 2013 without having been exposed to Catalonia. In this way, we recover it by making a dialogue with Josep Guinovart, sharing trajectory, chronology and themes.

Two wall artists who have become a reference in today's art.

Lara Vidal Santorum
Historian of art