Patrícia Maseda Calamita (Girona -Spain-, 1977) holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History of Art from the University of Girona (UdG) as well as a Master’s Degree in Communication and Criticism of Art. 
Her artistic path with sculpture begins in 2014, when she starts working with paper and cardboard to develop volumes which have evolved from abstract forms to her own figurative style. Since 2016, she participates in solo and collective exhibitions in several museums and Art spaces all over Catalonia, mainly in Girona and Barcelona, and international in Greece.
Her so-called “imaginary volumes” sculptures are the result from her work based on the discovery of the forms that the folds of paper draw in the mind of who observes them.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The choice of paper as a material to create sculpture arises from the artist’s work with cardboard which subsequently evolves into some forms and a figurative style of its own. Made from fragile and ephemeral material such as cardboard and paper, the sculptures integrate bases and supports of different materials and are inspired by themes which evoke the classical culture as the mythologies of the ancient world, especially the Greek one, concepts of philosophy and symbology, among others. 
The experience of modelling the material with hands allows feeling the texture and observing the transformation of the material in a chaos of folds which finally acquires meaning. The paper and cardboard used in the creative process is presented without modifications or artifice.

EXHIBITIONS

2026
Genealogies femenines en l’escultura catalana [Female Genealogies in Catalan Sculpture] (Collective). Xarxa de Museus de Catalunya. Network of Art Museums of Catalonia.
Pepe Sales Festival (Collective). Centre Cultural la Mercè. Girona.

2025
Regal’art (Collective) Espai Barri Vell Gallery. Girona.
Caps (Collective) Galga Art Gallery. Palau-saverdera. Girona.
Lectures de paper [Paper Lectures]. Itinerant exhibition across six libraries in the province of Girona, from February to November: Manuel Vilà i Dalmau Library (Tossa de Mar), Carles Fontserè Library (Porqueres), Lluís Barceló i Bou Library (Palamós), Miquel Martí i Pol Library (Sant Gregori), Joan Vinyoli Library (Santa Coloma de Farners) and Julià Cutiller Library (Llagostera).
Les ales de l’art [The Wings of Art] (Installation). Girona Time of Flowers. 70a Flower, Patio and Garden Exhibition.
Pepe Sales Festival (Collective). Centre Cultural la Mercè. Girona.
Microcosmos. Casa de Cultura. Riudellots de la Selva.

2024
De la pedra al paper [From the Stone to the Paper]. Jornada Art-Acció! The Girona Art Museum.
Μονοπάτια της Θάλασσας [Ways of the Sea]. Πολιτιστικός και Μορφωτικός Σύλλογος Γυθείου – Cultural and Educational Association of Gytheio (Greece). European Union’s European Maritime Day 2024 – «In My Country ‘Greece'» events.
Teixint floritures [Weaving Flourishes] (Installation). Girona Time of Flowers. 69a Flower, Patio and Garden Exhibition.
Esfullar roses [Plucking roses] (collective). Col·lectiu Empordones. Ca l’Anita de Roses.
Lectures de paper (Girona). [Paper Lectures]. Itinerant exhibition across five libraries in the city of Girona: Salvador Allende Library, Antònia Adroher Library, Ernest Lluch Library, Just Manel Casero Library and Carles Rahola Library.

2023
Lectures de paper. [Paper Lectures]. Palace of the Marquises of Lió. Maria Àngels Torrents i Rosés Library, Sant Pere de Riudebitlles.
Miralls de l’ànima [Mirrors of soul] (installation). Girona Time of Flowers. 68a Flower, Patio and Garden Exhibition.
Trilogia. [Trilogy]. La Volta, Girona.
Volums imaginaris. [Imaginary volumes]. St. Anthony’s Chapel, Torroella de Montgrí.

2022
XI Biennal d’Art Riudebitlles Capellades Paper Mill Museum.
Jardí invers [Reversed garden] (installation) Girona Time of Flowers. 68a Flower, Patio and Garden Exhibition.
Collective Exhibition Edgar Massegú’s Museum House, Sarrià de Ter.
Mirades [Gazes] Palau de l’Abadia, Sant Joan de les Abadesses.
El bosc de les paraules [The Forest of Words] (installation). Salvador Allende Library, Girona.

2021
XI Biennal d’Art de Girona Casa de Cultura, Girona.
Llegir l’art des del paper [Read the art from the paper] Friends of the Girona Art Museum and the Girona Booksellers Guild.
Η αρχαία Σπάρτη με σύγχρονη ματιά [The Ancient Sparta with a modern view] (collective). Archeological Museum of Sparta, Greece.

2020
23 espines [23 thorns] (collective). Fundació Valvi, Girona.

2019
Puer Aeternus Aparador22, Girona.

2018
Diàlegs amb el mite [Dialogues with the Myth]. Cerdanyola Art Museum, Barcelona.
Mites i flors [Myths & Flowers] (installation) Girona Time of Flowers. 63a Flower, Patio and Garden Exhibition.
Bestiari [Bestiary] Espai Gatassa, Mataró, Barcelona.

2017
Óneiros Centre Cultural Les Bernardes de Salt, Girona.

2016
Diàlegs amb el mite [Dialogues with the Myth]. Friends of the Girona Art Museum