Ángela SÁNCHEZ, Sin titulo, 2016. Courtesy Galeria Arte Periferica
Samuel Rama
Samuel RAMA, Perípato #2, 2016. Courtesy Galeria 111
João Francisco
João FRANCISCO, Sin titulo (O pequeno túmulo). 2012, Courtesy Galeria 111
Pedro A.H. Paixão
Pedro A. H. PAIXÃO, Mystic river, 2017. Courtesy Galeria 111
Mario Soria
Mario SORIA, Sophia Loren Simpson, 2012. Courtesy N2 Galería
MARIO SORIA
Barcelona, 1966
Presented by N2 GALERÍA
Mario Soria is a painter and sketcher of hyperrealistic portraits who lives and works in Barcelona.
Interested in American pop culture, among his models to draw are famous characters like Andy Warhol, Woody Allen or Albert Eistein.
Beyond the portraits, he places his models in a hectic scene of sailboats, bees, pencils, miniature people and umbrellas. The originality with which they are represented gives a tremendous personality to his work.
These works include illustrative and bold painted geometric shapes, lines and other additional elements. Mario Soria confesses that the objects and their assignment are random, but in general they serve to replicate the style of the famous series of books “I Spy”.
The artist uses multiple techniques, including the incorporation of three-dimensional objects, such as pieces of Lego, all objects of bright colors that protrude from the surface of the canvas.
Tânia Ferrão
Tania Ferrão, Fading Roots#4, 2017. Courtesy Galeria Arte Periferica
TÂNIA FERRÃO
Torres Vedras, Portugal, 1993.
Presented by ARTE PERIFÉRICA
This illustrator and animator graduated in Multimedia Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, studies that she completed by attending the Painting Course of the Duran Castaibert School. Upon arriving in this city, she became interested in travel journals and sketchbooks, giving preference to materials that allow rapid registration such as pens and watercolors. These techniques, almost sketched, are those that fill with freshness the images that she presents to us in her works. The immediacy with which she draws is one of the keys aspects of her speech.
Her work seeks to understand mankind and our relationship with the world.
Through drawing she manifests the behaviors that make us human and the restlessness that moves us in life.
In addition to graphic diaries, Ferrão also shares an interest in painting, illustration and animation, always looking for new and innovative techniques to reach the viewer.
Bruno Castro Santos
Bruno CASTRO SANTOS, Composition of paper band drawings, 2007. Courtesy Galeria Objectismo
BRUNO CASTRO SANTOS
Lisbon, Portugal, 1972
Presented by OBJECTISMO
Bruno Castro Santos lived in the United States between 1990 and 1998, having completed a bachelor’s degree in architecture at the Institute of Architecture of Southern California in Los Angeles. Subsequently, Bruno concluded his academic studies with a Master’s Degree in Advanced Architecture Design from Columbia University, New York. After a decade of practice in architecture and teaching in Portugal, he gradually devoted himself to the fine arts, having completed the Advanced Fine Arts title of Ar.Co. in 2012.
Influenced by his architectural studies, he creates abstract geometric works. His drawings and paintings tend to explore, through a refined register, different prescriptive dynamics, sometimes in an expansive combination and rhythm with strong spatial dynamics, which gain presence in relation to the occupied architectural domain.
Since 2012, the artist has shown his work collectively and individually in important galleries, both in Portugal, where he lives, and internationally.
José Ramón Amondarain
José Ramón AMONDARAIN. Sin Título, 2015-2017. Courtesy Galería Trinta
José Ramón Amondarain
San Sebastián, 1964
Presented by TRINTA GALLERY
José Ramón Amondarain is an artist faithful to painting whose work is a constant reflection on the concept of copy and original. With a thorough knowledge of the history of art, he borrows works of other artists, reworking them, to establish relationships and generate new readings in a constant search to expand the possibilities of interpretation.
The drawings presented in Drawing Room are, in fact, photographs as they are made with light and analog techniques of photographic development although the generated image is “drawn” by the artist with a small flashlight in a process of little control over the final result since any variation in the intensity or direction of the light causes different results than those sought.
Aitor Lajarín
Aitor LAJARÍN, Sin Título, 2017. Courtesy Galería Art Nueve
AITOR LAJARÍN
Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1978
Presented by GALERÍA ART NUEVE
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country in 2002, he subsequently made doctoral courses at the same University.
Painting is part of the bulk of the work of Aitor Lajarín, being also the origin of his work in the field of photography and installation, since “sometimes it asks to be translated into mechanical image or expanded in space”, according to his own words.
He lived and worked for a while in the city of Barcelona until 2007, when he received the Artium Fellowship for creation and research in the United States and thus moved to the city of Los Angeles at the beginning of 2008. This allowed him to expand his artistic perspective and serve as inspiration for some of his works, like the Night Walker series, which reflects the night world in this city.
His work shows, narrates and flows parallel to the cinema, with the aim of conceiving each series as an entity with its own personality.
Angel Mateo Charris
Angel Mateo CHARRIS, Cap. 54, 2012, Courtesy My Name’s Lolita
ANGEL MATEO CHARRIS
Cartagena, Murcia, 1962
Presented by MY NAME’S LOLITA ART
Bachelor of Fine Arts by the San Carlos University of Valencia, this Murcian painter includes his work in the figurative line coined as “neometaphysics”.
Charris’s style is very influenced by comics, pop art, visual languages of American black cinema and certain classical authors, especially Edward Hopper. Another very common trait in his work is the reference to the history of art, as well as abundant literary nexuses.
His pieces continually quote consecrated works, participating in post-modernist postulates.
Charris’s paintings can be found in such important collections as the Argentaria Foundation, the Coca-Cola Foundation, the Bancaixa Collection, the Testimoni La Caixa Collection, the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, the IVAM, and the Artium de Vitoria among others.