Gossos, conills I porcs

Michael Sowa

21/09/04. (Sala 225)

German painter and illustrator, master of subtle and funny art, he became famous for his surreal and surprising paintings, although he has also ventured into the area of art direction for films such as Wallace & Gromit, the curse of vegetables. 

His work, of surrealist character, shows us worlds in which the main characters are animals; often endowed with a black humor, always with a dreamlike and charming air. Simply brilliant.

He usually paints in acrylic on board, in small sizes.

It is not easy to forget Sowa’s paintings in the French film The Fabulous Fate of Amélie Poulain, that magical scene in which a lamp in the shape of a pig and the animals in two paintings adorning the walls talk about Amélie’s falling in love.

In 1995 she was awarded the Olaf Gulbransson Prize.