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Nieves Torralba

Nieves TORRALBA. Alpinia Elina. Courtesy Galería Shiras

Nieves Torralba

Hellín, Valencia, 1964

Presented by SHIRAS GALERÍA

Drawing, calligraphy and the public space are the basic components of her poetics. The line, graphite, silverpoint, Japanese paper and botanical references are the raw material that take form in her drawings and grow organically in the different places which are resignified when she intervenes in them. A lover of pure essence, her works afford a surprising play of vibrant volumes charged with energy.
Her works oscillate between white cotton surfaces and the three-dimensional space of her wall interventions (Peregrinatio, Sagunto; the garden at Museo Del Chopo in Mexico City; a permanent intervention in the lobby of the Puerta de Hierro hospital in Madrid).
She was chosen by the curatorial team at the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Centre in Havana to carry out the intervention-exhibition Tiempo detenido in 2014.
Her work belongs to public and private collections, including. among others: DKV Art Collection, Navacerrada Contemporary Art Collection, University of Valencia, Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Tomás Ruiz Collection of Drawings, and Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile.
Torralba lives and works in Valencia.

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Bel Fullana

Bel Fullana

Bel Fullana

Project “Islas del dibujo: trazos comunes”

A Fine Arts graduate with a Master’s degree in Artistic Creation from the Universidad de Barcelona, she lives and works in Palma de Mallorca. Her work has been exhibited both in Spain and internationally. In 2017 she was awarded two important prizes, the Ciutat de Palma Antoni Gelabert Plastic Arts Prize and the Ciutat de Manacor Plastic Arts Prize.
Reflecting the imbalance between the male and female genders, Bel Fullana approaches the image of women from an ironic and complex perspective. From her experience and in some way as a reaction to the common aspects (fragility, sensitivity, and victimisation) that socially shape and condition the image of women, the artist expresses herself without limitations. She does not seek to be politically correct or to invite empty controversy: she offers a questioning view of what is feminine. From a wide approach the human landscape generated in her work consists of multiple layers, as can be seen in these works exposed in Drawing Room. Although she uses apparently simple strokes and ranges from the most intimate small dimension and the large dimension of scenographic expression, her drawings involve the spectator in a network of tensions and emotions that cannot be ignored.

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Fernando Martín Godoy

Fernando MARTIN GODOY. Perro XII, 2017. Courtesy Galeria Siboney

FERNANDO MARTÍN GODOY

Zaragoza, 1975

Presented by SIBONEY

Finalizados sus estudios de Bellas Artes en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y en la School of Visual Arts de Nueva York, se incorpora al panorama expositivo a partir del año 2003, recibiendo numerosas becas y galardones, entre los que cabe destacar el JustMag Premio Joven en 2015 o el de la Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza en 2006. Sus series de collages sobre papel, como “Infinite cathedrals” o “Construction time again”, están producidos a partir de fotografías extraídas de libros antiguos. El artista realiza una serie de intervenciones mínimas sobre el original, muy minuciosas, dibujando con precisión a través de un bisturí y siguiendo el impulso sintético que caracteriza el conjunto de su trabajo. En riguroso blanco y negro, estas composiciones versan sobre el poder del ser humano frente al paisaje y el papel simbólico de la arquitectura, mostrando interiores de catedrales o construcciones misteriosas en forma de cubos, monolitos, dunas, montañas o monumentos.

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Berta Cáccamo

Berta CÁCCAMO. Sin Título – Bubbles, 2017. Courtesy Galería Trinta

Berta Cáccamo

Vigo, 1963

Presented by GALERÍA TRINTA

A graduate in Fine Arts from the San Jordi School of Barcelona, Berta Cáccamo completed her studies with a Doctorate in Barcelona and later in Pontevedra.
Her painting is abstract and conceptual, within non-figuration, with broad spots of subdued tones and mastery of ochers and blacks.
There is a geometric composition in her works -usually large format canvases- which include vague formal references.
In her drawings she proposes a poetic and colorist game related to the automatic writing of the Surrealists, as opposed to the deliberate effort to change the use of the color she shows in her paintings.
Her work is present in the Galician Center for Contemporary Art, in the Museum of Pontevedra and in private collections such as Union Fenosa in A Coruña.
In 2017 she received the Galician Culture Prize for the Plastic Arts.

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María Rosa Valverde

María Rosa VALVERDE. Courtesy Pintura Pintura, Madrid

MARÍA ROSA VALVERDE

Madrid, 1962

Presented by PINTURAPINTURA.COM

María Rosa Valverde (born in Madrid, 1962) she was awarded a Fine Arts Bachelor degree by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Initially she developed her professional career in private companies, within publicity and corporate branding fields, until she finally focused on art production in the 90s. Since 1995 she begins to carry out exhibitions in some of the main Spanish art galleries such as Sala Pelaires in Palma de Mallorca or Max Estrella in Madrid.
With a solid style fixed in drawing techniques, where she displays her strong personality, her art works reach a great expressive ability within figurative performance.
Her work has a clear expressionist approach, recreating strong and evocative atmospheres, full of emotion and restlessness.
María handles charcoal, inks and lines which seems to be out of control, however they are finally held without any esthetic license, or any kind of excess, in order to represent people, animals, urban landscapes, on paper or canvas.

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Manuel Salinas

Manuel SALINAS. Courtesy Pintura Pintura, Madrid

MANUEL SALINAS

Seville, 1940

Presented by PINTURAPINTURA.COM

Author of a huge work rooted in the trends of American abstractionism of the second half of the twentieth century, Sevillian artist Manuel Salinas is a protein creator who does not neglect the possibility of referring to drawing in his large-format works on paper.
Along with the fields of floating color, Salinas expresses himself through energetic strokes, of summary and expressive gesture that contradict the pictorial with the drawing and introduce references to intuitive geometries.
His works are part of the most important Spanish art collections, such as the Bank of Spain, the La Caixa Foundation, the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, the El Monte Foundation, the BBV Collection, the Endesa Collection, the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, the Argentaria Collection and the Patio Herreriano Contemporary Art Museum.

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Daniela Alfarano

Daniela ALFARANO. Precious, 2017. Courtesy D406, Modena

DANIELA ALFARANO

Modena, Italy, 1976

Presented by D406 FEDELI ALLA LINEA

Daniela Alfarano’s drawings on wood explore the relationships between light and darkness. She often present them at site-specific installations that explore spiritual valúes.
That’s how it will be in the project “One day I’ll pick up my feathers and fly” that she exhibits in Drawing Room 2018. In recent years the artist has been obsessively drawing feathers that makes emerge from the emptiness of paper, blinding with graphite space around them. The feathers are fed in the air, defying gravity and transmitting a state of lightness and freedom.
Alfarano began showing his work in 2005 and has developed an important career that includes exhibitions at the Artefact Gallery in New York, the Biennale del Disegno in Rimini and the Friedman Home Gallery in Amsterdam. She has collaborated with the newspaper Corriere della Sera and the pianist Beatrice Rana.

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Toshiro Yamaguchi

Toshiro YAMAGUCHI, Casas unidas, 2015. Courtesy Galeria Lucia Mendoza

TOSHIRO YAMAGUCHI

Presented by GALERÍA LUCÍA MENDOZA

The work of Toshiro Yamaguchi aims to express the deepest and richest essence of the human being. The artist conceives artistic work as a search for beauty, where he finds the depth of the spirit, in which his body, arms and bowels intervene as a medium.
Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Musashino, Tokyo, Yamaguchi has developed his career between Japan and Spain, where he came interested in the Spanish pictorial tradition. The color, the stroke, the footprint and, especially, the tempo are the tools of a practice that connects cultures in pursuit of harmony, fluidity and balance.

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Juanjo Lazcano

Juanjo LAZCANO, Sin título, 2017. Courtesy N2 Galería

JUANJO LAZCANO

Pamplona

Presented by N2 GALERÍA

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Luis Feo

Luis FEO, Sin título, 2016. Courtesy N2 Galería

LUIS FEO

Toledo, 1975

Presented by N2 GALERÍA

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