Miquel Barcelo?'s work is entwined with the intimate bond he has maintained with the sea since childhood, and which he continues to study and explore every day. This book offers an immersion into the profuse production of an artist who is passionate about fishing, swimming and diving, for whom the aquatic world remains the primordial environment, omnipresent in his work from his earliest paintings to his most recent creations. Between abysses and shores, ocean floors merge with the water's surface, underwater caves turn into waves, the forms and fauna of the deep adjoin fossil compositions and seafood banquets. Featuring unseen contributions by Marie Darrieussecq and Chantal Thomas, an interview with Patrick Maurie?s and a critical review by Bjo?rn Dahlstro?m, Guillaume de Sardes and Ste?phane Vacquier, Miquel Barcelo?: Oceanographer invites us to discover fifty years of artistic experimentations by this essential contemporary creator.