Biography<\/h2>\n\n
Concepci\u00f3n Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez Escobar was born on March 12, 1926 in Canet de Mar (Barcelona), where her maternal grandmother ran a shop. Her parents, Francisco and Cristina, were from Instinci\u00f3n (Almer\u00eda). Concha Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez was the eldest of three sisters. <\/p>\n\n
Shortly after her birth, the family moved to the Clot neighborhood of Barcelona. Little Concha began attending a private school, where she received her basic education. In the 1940s, the three sisters received training in cutting and tailoring and obtained the title that accredited them to become dressmaking masters. <\/p>\n\n
While working as a dressmaker, Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez began attending the art school in the Poblenou neighborhood \u2014along with her sisters\u2014, where the painter Josep Oriol Baqu\u00e9 Mercader (1900-1966), who was primarily a landscape painter, taught. From 1946 to 1959 she studied at the Llotja School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere she took individual subjects, without taking exams. During these same years she also began to attend the Sant Lluc Art Circle (Barcelona) in the afternoons, where she participated in the life drawing workshop. She would later become a member of several boards of directors of this legendary entity. In the 1960s she returned to the Llotja to study lithography, the intaglio technique in which she later excelled. <\/p>\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\nHis mother died in 1956. Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez continued to live with his father until his death in 1976, as the artist had decided not to form a couple or have children. <\/p>\n\n
Concha Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez considered 1960 to be the starting point of her career as a professional artist, since that year she presented her first exhibition at the Sala Jaimes on Passeig de Gr\u00e0cia in Barcelona. From then on, the exhibitions would follow one another at an exceptional pace; she usually prepared between four and six individual shows per year in different cities, and many more collective exhibitions. Her work could be seen in the most prominent galleries and art centers of the time. The artist exhibited in a multitude of Catalan towns (Girona, Lleida, Tarragona, Matar\u00f3, Vic, Figueres…), national (Madrid, Salamanca, Zaragoza, Pamplona, \u200b\u200bPalma, A Coru\u00f1a…) and foreign (Brussels, New York, Bangkok and cities in Austria and Cuba). She always obtained great critical and public success that allowed her to live from her artistic work. <\/p>\n\n
Concha Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez died in Barcelona on December 22, 2022. The country’s press echoed the news and published emotional obituaries that praised her artistic career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42785,"template":"","estat-exposicions":[423],"class_list":["post-41295","exposicions","type-exposicions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","estat-exposicions-current"],"yoast_head":"\n