By the artist Didier Lourenço

On July 27, the painter Didier Lourenço died at the age of 55. According to the gallery owner Jordi Barnadas, with whom he often worked, he has been the victim of a fulminant cancer detected only a month and a half ago. "He leaves us a great person, nice, with a great sense of humor, simple and close, a friend of his old friends. He leaves us a great artist with a great future", recalls the gallerist.

Lourenço, born in Barcelona in 1968, began his artistic career making lithographs in his father's workshop. In 1988 he founded his own workshop to work on both lithography and oil, and the workshop became his best school, both for stamping his work and that of various artists. That same year he presented his first solo exhibition of lithographs. In 1991 Lourenço won a prestigious award for young artists which introduced him to the gallery world for both solo and group exhibitions. His work quickly began to resonate internationally, and he has exhibited in cities such as New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Las Vegas and Singapore.