"Art feeds on life, but in the life of the painter - the art of the past and the art of others - plays an important role."

These words from Ràfols Casamada are true, we are always the result of experiences, memories, feelings, the art of the past and the present, of the art of others, which we identify and love most.

Albert's painting has dazzled me, since the sixties, works such as "Family chronicle", "Emotion and reason" are full of expression, construction and balance, such as the series "Alicia" (1972), "Blau sostenido" (1978), "Greenhouse" (1982), "Gran cuadro gris" (1985), sensitivity, chromaticism, space and light as painted words fleeing from being deciphered, exaltation, pleasure and desire to invent painting at every moment. These characteristics have been constant in the course of their work.

It is also important to clarify certain topics as the painter is very often involved. In the specific case of Rafols, they often find themselves in exclusive territories with lyricisms and chromatic softness, here I will use words of Georges Raillard on the work of the painter: "There is no aestheticism without passion - yet to be retained in its forms - to turn the world according to its sensibility. So it is not necessary to speak tall to show the dream of a harmony. "It is true that passion is often swallowed to balance and enhance space, to give each square centimeter of painting a continuous tension. We have a significant anecdote of his passional record, on a trip of Easter in Seville as he passed to his height. The Macarena threw a great cry of "Guapa ...!" That drowned the poor singer who was at that time in full saeta

This painter is a cultural well of roots and origins, linked to the oldest and most modern, progressive, bright and brightest Catalonia. For his pedagogical, poetic and literary work, for his cultural commitment, therefore, social Albert Ràfols Casamada gives us guidelines that, at a very low moment in our society, is a model that we can not save.

Five years ago we opened this Space in Agramunt, today, May 30 we inaugurate these twelve "April roles", we celebrate this exhibition as a party. These "April roles" are amazing and are online, light and tension at their best. It is very difficult to say so much with so little.

Thanks, Albert.
Josep Guinovart