The 6A gallery and workshop celebrates 40 years with engravings by the artist Marià Fortuny i Marsal

The 6 A art gallery and workshop celebrates its 40th anniversary with the exhibition ‘Marià Fortuny y Marsal: master engraver’, a collection of works by the Catalan artist. The exhibition, which is open to the public until March 30, presents some 50 engravings and drawings that Enric Juncosa Darder, the current owner of the works, has donated.

6 A is one of the few art galleries in all of Spain with its own traditional printing workshop. Throughout its history, it has printed and edited more than 1,800 images by more than 80 artists, who are invited to work with traditional printing techniques such as xylography, intaglio engraving and lithography, under the advice of the technical team.

In 1982 a group made up of artists and graphic arts specialists founded Taller 6ª (it takes its name from its location on Calle de Can Pont i Vic, 6a). Workshop 6a arises with the aim of recovering traditional printing techniques (Xylography, Chalcographic Engraving and Lithography, among others), displaced by the passage of time and by the progressive development of photomechanical and digital techniques.

Before the workshop became a reality, the founding members had to learn the techniques and gain experience. In fact, fidelity to the origins of traditional techniques, linked to the desire for recovery and conservation, led Taller 6a to work with tools and machines dating from the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. It was from these experimental beginnings that the first editions of the artists Miquel Barceló, Joan Roca Fuster, Miquel Brunet, Juli Ramis, among others, emerged.

With these projects, Taller 6a definitively opened its doors on December 29, 1982. Another objective of 6 A was to combine these techniques with the art of artists, most of whom were Mallorcan and others with a close relationship with the Island. 6 A It has become an important historical archive and an outstanding platform for the dissemination of contemporary art for 40 years.