Born in Tarragona in 1960, Antoni Arola studied design at EINA school in Barcelona, graduating in 1984. He went on to work at several prestigious studios, including Lievore Pensi and Associate Designers (AD), a leading technological design factory of the time, headed by Ramón Bigas and Pep Sant. In 1994, he founded his own lighting studio, Estudi Arola, and began to lay the foundations for his design work, with a rather artisan than industrial feel. Antoni Arola s ephemeral installations are part of his work as a lighting expert. In the spring of 2007, Arola celebrated his studio s 10th anniversary with an audiovisual installation at the Sala Vinçon in Barcelona. To accompany the exhibition, he put together "Ten Light Years", a book published by Santa & Cole in which he explains the details of each of his creations until that time. Historian and poet, Antoni Arola masters poetry at its purest from in a language few speak: the language of light.