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Josep Anton Carulla, soul of N2 Gallery, dies
Gallerist and key figure in the Barcelona art scene, Josep Anton Carulla dedicated his life to the promotion of contemporary art, with special attention to young creators and the most groundbreaking proposals, decisively contributing to opening new paths in the city's art scene.
He began his career as a close collaborator of the renowned gallery owner Ignacio de Lassaletta, responsible for the homonymous gallery located at number 47 of Rambla de Catalunya, active since 1977. In this context, Carulla played a fundamental role as a curator of exhibitions and discoverer of emerging talents. With a restless spirit and the desire to promote his own project, in 2005 he founded, together with Lassaletta, the N2 Gallery at number 61 of Carrer Enric Granados. This new space was conceived as a platform for the most innovative and groundbreaking art, and the public's response was immediate, quickly turning the gallery into one of the most active and relevant in the city.
Carulla was a person of great kindness and relational capacity, who knew how to connect with artists, collectors and visitors. The openings he organized were often crowded, a reflection of an artistic community that found in him a close and enthusiastic interlocutor. Among the many outstanding exhibitions that he promoted at the N2 Gallery, we should remember the first shows of graffiti artists —when they had not yet been legitimized by the gallery system—, a significant exhibition dedicated to Aurèlia Muñoz at a time of unjust oblivion, or the first show in Barcelona of the Mexican artist Javier Marín, before he was internationally recognized and one of the possible candidates to participate in projects such as the main facade of the Sagrada Família, alongside Miquel Barceló and Cristina Iglesias.
The N2 Gallery, which had to close in 2023 due to force majeure, is already part of the history of Barcelona's gallery industry. Its last exhibition, in September of that year, was a heartfelt tribute to Ignacio de Lassaletta, also becoming a farewell act for a vital stage for contemporary art in the city.
With the death of Josep Anton Carulla, a key figure in understanding the development of young art in Barcelona over the last few decades disappears. However, his legacy lives on in the careers of the artists he helped promote and in the memories of all those who knew him.
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