Neuve Invention

Ignacio Carles-Tolrà discovered the work and writings of Dubuffet at the age of 30 when he was living in Zurich. “Prospectus for amateurs in all fields” becomes his work and philosophy of reference. Thereafter, Carles-Tolrà lives in Stuttgart, finally settling in Geneva in 1960(until 1994)  where he works as a mimeograph operator for the Red Cross.

It is at this time that Carles-Tolrà begins to paint and draw at night, encouraged in this path by Jean Dubuffet, with whom he maintains a considerable correspondence.

In 1994, he returns to Spain, where he lives and goes on his art; there, he also works as benevolent in favor of Red Cross.

Ignacio Carles-Tolrà paints in acrylics, gouache, pastel, immersing himself in the details of his life with an ever-present humor. The characters, birds and composite creatures he creates on the blackboard of his imagination are types of complicated “beasties” that develop like mad architecture, protozoans in mutation, often endowed with multiple members. Morphological landmarks, dispersed then regrouped, give the work of this artist who creates in relation to his impulses, the power to defy interdiction.