Moulds of capgrossos arranged as they were found in Taller Sarandaca. With the passage of time, these universal archetypes have been replaced by representations of public figures, or of villagers, or of historical figures associated with the place. Faced with a turbo-capitalist production that in its acceleration and repetition homogenises the representation of a world, in this case popular culture tends towards the local and the particular, as a strategy to protect itself, self-represent itself and maintain its own memory.

1995-2018

Taller Sarandaca is a sculpture and festive imagery workshop created and directed by Ramon Aumedes i Ferré in 1973, located since 2006 at the Fàbrica de les Arts Roca Umbert in Granollers.

Ramon Aumedes i Farré (Guissona, 1950) is a multifaceted artist who works in sculpture, painting and drawing. In 1973 he set up his own workshop where he has been working uninterruptedly and exclusively up to the present day. Since 1984 he has combined sculpture with the construction of giants, dragons, big heads and large pieces in the Taller Sarandaca.