Discover the contemporary work of Manolo
chef at home has always drawn his dishes, before devoting himself more fully to his passion for painting. The trigger? The Mediterranean and what no one sees there, except him. market as one who has not traced himself with a stroke to the quills and become "cobla-composes a palette, expresses himself on a white sheet of paper, harmless and playful. They mer on the plate as the coblas anchored on the edge of the Mediterranean, dance to the music of the coblas on a white sheet of paper, harmonized in Collioure. A few months ago, falling, go back into the sea, taste... When Manuel Laguens opened the Cobla Gallery. This village, where he spent all his holidays, is already that of an artist the city of Fauvism: he feared sardana, a round of life that is intended to be culinary. Each flat, he realized he was making a small place for himself there, then he finally launched himself, driven by the imagination outside the box that uses classical techniques - gouache is mastered, his eye sharpened. An education in beauty has always oriented him towards crafts that call upon the slate... With the dryness of the summer, culture, observation, a sensibility. He was first assistant at Ungaro, worked for an auction house specializing in primitive and Oceanic arts, and created a cabinet of curiosities, in Paris. Recipe books and illustrations bear his signature. A career SEAWATER PAINTER the sea always gives him the eyes of a child. He sees beneath its surface a universe as whimsical as it is poetic. In his paintings, anchovies spring from the waves, sea urchins leave the seabed: "When they reach the shore, they lose their certain works illustrate new experiences. "I work without using water or just a little sea water which, when drying, changes the rendering," explains Manolo: salt as a new pigment to cook to extend his illustrated stories.
