His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic , often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong passion. Bigas Luna was born on March 19, , in Barcelona. He began his professional career working in interior and industrial design, creating the Estudio Gris with Carlos Riart in His designs during the s showed a great interest in conceptual art and the emerging visual technologies. He moved into movie making in the s, making low-budget shorts with erotic themes.
In he retired to Tarragona in order to devote his time to painting, while raising his three daughters. He and his wife Celia ran an organic farm which produced wine, ham and other organic products.
This was a commercial success. These films "explored the darkest depths of eroticism and stereotypical Spanish machismo. Subsequently, with the short film for the internet Collar de Moscas , he revived his interest in avant-garde experimentation and audiovisual formats and at the same time he discovered a vocation for the investigation of digital cinema after the creation of the Taller Bigas Luna project with Catalina Pons in Bigas Luna's varied career as a filmmaker, painter and designer made him a very singular and interdisciplinary artist.
It can now be found on a web site see external links below , where the visitor can modify and select the works and become, in this way, the creator.
Bigas Luna directed and produced a large-scale multimedia installation for the Spain Pavilion at Shanghai Expo , named Origins , as the first part of the Pavilion's trilogy on exhibition. The installation fused live Flamenco dance, sculpture and videos on more than 20 projectors. Bigas Luna died of leukemia on 5 April , while working on the film adaptation of Manuel de Pedrolo 's novel Mecanoscrit del segon origen.
