“Dr.Josep Cerdà is a Fine Arts Teacher at the University of Barcelona. Versatile sculptor and researcher, especially in the areas of sound art and humanistic perception of spaces, nature, and urbanism.”
He has been Dean of the UB Faculty of Fine Arts, Director of the Department of Sculpture, and Director of the Department of Visual Arts and Design at the University of Barcelona. The University of Barcelona, with more than 600 years of history, is one of the most prestigious universities in the world according to all international rankings. The Faculty of Fine Arts is considered one of the most important in Europe, in this faculty the most important artists of the Avant-garde of the 20th century, Picasso, Miró, Gaudí, Dalí, Tapies, Barceló studied. Josep Cerdà has taught at different international universities, at the UNESP of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the UNAM of Mexico, the University of Lisbon, the Catholic University of Chile, the UAN of Colombia, the University of La Paz, Bolivia, La Universidade das Açores.
He is a member of the Recognized Research Group of Art Science: Barcelona Art and Creation of the University of Barcelona. He is a member of the GIIP Research Group of Art, Science and Technology Convergence of the Universidade Estadual Paulista de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Member of the Research Group Interdisciplinary Group of Experimentation and Research of Sonora Sculpture (GIEIES) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM. Member of the Palas y Musas Research Group, Aesthetic Research Institute and the Research Institute in Applied Mathematics in Systems, UNAM, Mexico.
He has taught courses, congresses, conferences at prestigious universities around the world, the UNAM of Mexico, the University of Sao Paulo, the University of Brasilia (Brazil), The University of the Azores Islands, The UAN of Bogotá (Colombia), and in Contemporary Art centers such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. As an artist, he has been linked to international galleries, for 10 years with the Montini gallery in Paris and currently at the Ici et la gallery. He has had exhibitions in Germany, France, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Jordan. He has public works in different cities: Barcelona, Amman, Riyadh, Andorra, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, He has worked in various museums and private collections, has received awards and distinctions from the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Government of Spain.
He has made stage designs for theater and designer furniture or sculptural furniture (Art To Use) that have been exhibited for seven consecutive years at the Paris Fair and currently at the Petersham Gallery in London’s Cover Garden. Currently, Josep Cerdà works in sound sculpture and soundscape, he has studied the soundscapes of the Azores Islands, Bahia, Sao Paulo, and Brasilia in Brazil, Chile, Mexico City, Bolivia, Colombia, Jordan, Romania, and China. In 2010 he made the recording of the Soundscape of the Mediterranean, commissioned by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in 2012 he was selected at the Sao Paulo Biennial to present his work on Sound Art Sound installation for six speakers [Pluienuit / Tuyau] on radio Biennial. In Sonora Sculpture, he specializes in percussion sound sculptures, of which he has made a sculpture project in Yi-Chang city, Hubei, and exhibitions and concerts such as the one held in 798 in Beijing.
In Shen Zhen, he has performed two concerts: one jointly with the pianist Lang Lang and another organized by the environmental organization WWF. He has also made environmental sound sculptures to amplify and reverberate the sounds of the sea such as those made in Qingdao City and Weifang, China. He has made a sound art installation at the MAMT Modern Art Museum of Tarragona, in art-Graulet, France, and has made the sound installation New spaces of transmission and resistance at the Sonar 2020 Festival.
