31 de maio de 2015

ORLANDO BOFFILL HERNANDEZ - PINTURA - CUBA

Orlando Boffill Hernandez was born in Havana, Cuba on October 16, 1964. In 1980, he enrolled in painting and drawing classes at the Taller de Artes Plasticas under the direction of the painter and sculptor Orestes Vergel and located in the municipality of San Miguel del Padron. At the time, the Taller de Artes Plasticas was located in the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. From this experience, the artists’ group called Vigia emerged and Boffill participated with this group in various collective exhibitions.
In 1985, he began his university career working towards a Master’s degree in Art History at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana. After his graduation, he started to work in 1991 as a Specialist in Plastic Arts at the Galleria de Arte located in Havana’s municipality 10 de Octubre. During his employment at the gallery, he accomplished important work as curator and cultural promoter. In 1996, he began to work as an independent artist.
His work has been included in more than 60 collective exhibitions and he has done 13 solo exhibits outside and within Cuba. In 2010 he worked as scenographic painter on French film filmed in Cuba. On December 2011, he traveled to Mexico where he did three solo exhibits. On January 2013, he traveled to New York City invited by Coohaus Gallery to participate in the Fountain Art Fair.
His work can be found in private collections in various countries, including Cuba, United States, Korea, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, Switzerland and Australia.
Currently, the artist lives and works in the United States.

Exhibitions

1984 - “The Vigia in our time” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
1986 - “Competition March 13” | Gallery L | Havana, Cuba
1988 - “IV exhibition of small format” | Gallery L | Havana, Cuba
1988 - “Party” | Museum Ernest Hemingway | Havana, Cuba
1989 - “Salon of youth” | House of the young Creador | Havana, Cuba
1991 - “Nine artists young people” | Studio-Gallery Blanco horse | Havana, Cuba
1991 - “Art young” (IV Bienal De La Habana) | Gallery Sunday Ravenet | Havana, Cuba
1993 - “S point T” | Art gallery of San Miguel the Padron | Havana, Cuba
1993 - “Once again” | Art Gallery Jaruco | Mayabeque, Cuba
1993 - “Competition March 13” | Gallery L | Havana, Cuba
1994 - “The dark side” | Art Gallery of Galiano | Havana, Cuba
1995 - “Art in the Cuba of the 90s” | University of Oviedo | Spain
1995 - “Contemporary art” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
1996 - “VIII Salon of fine arts Aristides Fernandez” | Gallery Arte Universal Guines | Mayabeque, Cuba
1996 - “Zeitkritische Kunst Aus Kuba” | Gallery Rita | Schweizer, Germany
1996 - “Reunion” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
1997 - “Not are all those who are” (VI Bienal De La Habana) | Sunday Gallery Ravenet | Havana, Cuba
1997 - “Cuba 97” | Gallery Isarte | Colombia
1998 - “Horizonta project 98” | Gallery Imago | Havana, Cuba
1998 - “Horizontal project in Portugal” | Portugal
1998 - “Faith Horizontal” | Convento San Francisco of Asis | Havana, Cuba
1998 - “Myth, hope eclectic of light” | Gallery Association brothers Saiz | Havana, Cuba
1999 - “Once again” | Art Gallery Jaruco| Mayabeque, Cuba
1999 - “End-of-century Cuban painting” | Gallery Aceas | Barcelona, Spain
1999 - “Made in Cuba” | Gallery Prestige | Barcelona, Spain
2001 - “Merry Christmas” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
2002 - “Beyond the walls” | Gallery of art of San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
2002 - “Word to the stain” | Gallery of art of San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
2003 - “Voices from the South” | Centro Provincial De Artes Plasticas Y Diseno | Havana, Cuba
2003 - “Between Angeles and goblins” | Gallery Origenes | Havana, Cuba
2004 - “Visions and reflections” | Gallery Origenes | Havana, Cuba
2004 - “CITA Con Angeles” | Gallery Origenes | Havana, Cuba.
2004 - “Landscape its edges” | Gallery Origenes | Havana, Cuba
2004 - “Virgin action” | Gallery San Miguel the Padron | Havana, Cuba
2005 - “3D images” | Gallery Concha Ferrant | Havana, Cuba
2005 - “From origins to Gubbio” | Gubbio, Italy
2005 - “Faces” | Gallery Origenes | Cuba
2005 - “Living In Harmony” | Texas Center For Documentary Of Photography | Austin, TX USA
2005 - “Between Amigos” | Galeria De art Fernandez Boada | Havana, Cuba
2006 - “Sinastria” | Galeria of Art San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
2007 - “Meeting dos” | Galeria Fernandez Boada | Havana, Cuba
2007 - “More than coincidence” | Gallery of Art San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
2008 - “The magic of combining Texturas” | Galeria Origenes| Havana, Cuba
2009 - “Seguir Huella” | Galeria San Miguel del Padron | Havana, Cuba
2009 - “Angeles and demons” (Homenaje A Antonia Eiriz) | Gallery San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
2009 - “Primer Salon art Vida” | Galeria San Miguel the Padron | Havana, Cuba
2010-2011 - Exclusive artist for art dealer of Barcelona, Spain, Jesus Mira Romero
2012 - “Exposicion Colectiva” | Mnache Gallery | Monterrey, Mexico
2013 - “Fountain Art Fair” | New York City, NYC

Personal Exhibitions

1991 - “Tropicollage” | Gallery Domingo Ravenet | Havana, Cuba
1992 - “I see clearly” | Gallery Hercar | Havana, Cuba
1993 - “Sometimes in the Viper” | 10 Octubre Gallery | Havana, Cuba
1996 - “Mental games” | 10 Octure Gallery | Havana, Cuba
2005 - “Faces for painters” | Gallery of San Miguel of the Padron | Havana, Cuba
2005 - “Author Obra” | Gallery Fernandez Boada | Havana, Cuba
2007 - “Summary of Noticias” | Galeria of San Miguel the Padron | Havana,Cuba
2012 - Fact in San Miguel” | Galleria the Conexion | San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2012 - “Homenajes” | Biblioteca publishes | San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

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26 de maio de 2015

SARA SANZ - PINTURA - ESPANHA

Sara Sanz is a Spanish artist who currently lives in Valencia, Spain. She was born in Zaragoza in 1980.
She began to show a great interest in drawing at an early age, inspired by the animations she saw on television and her brother’s comic books she used to read when sneaking into his room.
After her experience in the School of Arts of Zaragoza, where she enjoyed training tailored to her needs, learning the basics of traditional artistic techniques, Sara moved to Valencia in 1999 to begin her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos. In the early years of college, she left painting and drawing aside, going for disciplines related to design and advertising. In the last two years, she met fellow artists working with graffiti and urban art, and was completely seduced by this language that felt so familiar and somehow reminded her of her childhood, going back to painting as a fundamental part of her work.
In 2004, she began working with different local galleries and this was the year she got in touch with something that would henceforth define all her work: pop surrealism. Sara thought it was great how artists from all around the world belonged to that stream, still unknown, creating works that had all the same denominator. “That obsession with working on a thin line that separates subtle from grotesque, innocent from evil”.
Sara Sanz has participated in national and international fairs in London, Switzerland and Madrid and her works has been showcased in galleries in Spain, England, Italy and the US, as well as appeared in magazines, newspapers and other publications.

The work of Sara Sanz is part of pop surrealism, her protagonists always appear in unreal worlds. Heroines of impossible stories, where the common denominator is a mixture of innocence and contained cruelty. In them we can observe the thin line in which low-brow art moves between friendly and evil. The themes covered are diverse although always with an intimate and biographic character, feelings and thoughts ranging from fear to agony, from joy to tears, disorientation to auto affirmation.
Her work focuses primarily on airbrushing technique using acrylic paints, which provides them with a floaty and delicate appearance.
In short, she wants to show us that life has its lights and shadows, that it is fascinating and equally overwhelming, this dichotomy makes the World a place worth talking of

Que me quiera, que lo quiera.
acrylic on linen, 80 x 50 cm.
" Tiempo de Brujas",next Show in Madrid on May 14 ,in Combustión Espontanea gallery!!

Alquimia.
Acrylic on linen , 70 x 50 cm

Circe.
Acrílico sobre lino, 80 x 60 cm.
Inauguración "Tiempo de Brujas" , jueves 14 de Mayo 20,00 h en Combustión Espontánea , Madrid. C/ Colmenares 11.
Dos dias y nos vemos!