1929 | Birth in Barcelona on 20th June. |
1945 | Produces his first drawings. |
1949-1954 | Escola Massana de Barcelone : free student of drawing and painting. |
1952-1956 | Works in the technical section of the family publishing house dedicated to the reproduction of religious images. |
1956 | Engages in the commercial promotion of prints and opens his own publishing business of reproductions. |
1959 | First group exhibition in Barcelona (Ateneo Colón in Pueblo Nuevo). From then on, he shows his work in numerous group exhibitions both in Spain and abroad (Andorra, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, South Corea, Finland, France, Germany, Hong-Kong, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay). |
1961 | First solo exhibition (Kasper Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland). From that year onwards, he exhibits solo, both in Spain and abroad (Belgium, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Syria, United States). |
1962 | Founding member of Ciclos de Arte de Hoy and group’s initial exhibition at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc. Receives the first runner-up prize in the Joan Miró International Drawing Prize. |
1964 | Publication of a study on the painter, written by Cesáreo Rodríguez Aguilera. |
1965 | Awarded the prize of the Cercle Maillol (Institut français de Barcelona) and grant from the French government to spend eight months in Paris, where he studies lithography at the École des Beaux-Arts. Publication of a second study devoted to the artist with texts by Carlos Areán, Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Arnau Puig and Cesáreo Rodríguez Aguilera. |
1967 | Teaches drawing at the Lycée français in Barcelona until 1986. First portfolio of printmaking (El coure amb l’àcid i la resina: 5 resultats, with an introduction by Roland Barthes, edited by Oriol Duran). From then on, publication of five more printmaking portfolios. |
1968 | Receives a grant from the Institute of International Education to spend nine months in New York, where he perfects his silkscreen printing technique at the Pratt Center Institute. Makes his first two short films: New York (8 mm, colour) and Ibiza Single 8 (super 8, colour). |
1970 | Paints a large mural for the buildings designed by Ricardo Bofill’s architecture studio in Moratalaz (Madrid) and shoots a short film, Moratalaz (super 8, colour), produced by the studio itself. |
1973 | Makes the short film Homenatge a Rimbaud (16 mm, colour), sponsored and produced by the Deutsches Institut of Barcelona, with a soundtrack by the composer Joan Guinjoan. Teaches lithography at the Escola d’Arts Aplicades i Oficis Artístics (Llotja) in Barcelona, where he works until his retirement (1995). |
1976 | Publication of a monographic study, written by Josep Vallés Rovira. |
1982 | Appointed president of the Federació Sindical d’Artistes Plàstics de Catalunya (FSAPC), a position he holds for two years. |
1983 | Graduates in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. Awarded the Mini Print International engraving prize (Cadaqués). |
1985 | Second Lassalle de Arte prize in Barcelona. First runner-up prize at the F. C. Barcelona I Art Biennial. |
1987 | Re-elected president of the FSAPC (1987-1992). |
1988 | Exhibition of his complete printmaking work in Ulm (Germany). |
1989 | Retrospective exhibition in Paris (Michel Broomhead Gallery). Publication of the monograph Daniel Argimon, written by Lourdes Cirlot. Invited by the Union Régionale pour le Développement de la Lithographie d’Art (URDLA) to its workshops in Lyon to produce an edition of lithographs. |
1990 | Appointed member of the Board of Directors of VEGAP (Visual Entidad de Gestión de Artistas Plásticos). |
1991 | Exhibition of the collection of printmaking works produced between 1975 and 1991 at the Museo Nacional de la Estampa in Mexico City. |
1993 | Publication of the monographic study Argimon, by Francesc Miralles. |
1994 | Exhibition of the work of recent years at the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya in Barcelona. |
1996 | On 21st November, he dies of cancer in Barcelona at the age of 67. His work continues to be exhibited in posthumous exhibitions, including those organised by the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (1997), the Museu d’Art Modern de Tarragona (1998) and the Institut français de Barcelona (2007). |