Manu Muñoz * Francisco Uceda * Jesus Zamarron * Paco de la Torre
Manu Muñoz
Manu Muñoz
Artist Bio:
Manu Muñoz has had more than a hundred group and solo shows in Spain, Belgium, Japan, Germany or England. He has also received many awards, such as Youth Andalusian Visual Arts award, the Pedro Gilabert Arts award, Youth Art Madrid Award, or the Mediterranean Youth Arts award, which he received five times. He currently exhibits at Ana Mercader’s Gallery in Almería, and at Blanco Soto Gallery in Madrid.
His work synthesizes features, concepts and notions from other art periods, classical concepts presented with a more graphic and contemporary language, in which the digital input in the editing process of drafts is apparent in the treatment of color and composition.
Galleries:
http://behance.net/manumunoz
https://facebook.com/manu.munoz.visual.artist
Blanca Soto Gallery (Madrid)
Ana Mercader (Almería)
Manu Muñoz has had more than a hundred group and solo shows in Spain, Belgium, Japan, Germany or England. He has also received many awards, such as Youth Andalusian Visual Arts award, the Pedro Gilabert Arts award, Youth Art Madrid Award, or the Mediterranean Youth Arts award, which he received five times. He currently exhibits at Ana Mercader’s Gallery in Almería, and at Blanco Soto Gallery in Madrid.
His work synthesizes features, concepts and notions from other art periods, classical concepts presented with a more graphic and contemporary language, in which the digital input in the editing process of drafts is apparent in the treatment of color and composition.
Galleries:
http://behance.net/manumunoz
https://facebook.com/manu.munoz.visual.artist
Blanca Soto Gallery (Madrid)
Ana Mercader (Almería)
Francisco Uceda
Artist Bio:
Francisco Uceda is a Brooklyn-based fine art photographer, whose work explores important slightly offsetting narratives. Born in Almería, and educated in United States, Uceda earned his B.A. in anthropology and photography from Bard College and his M. Ed. from University of la Rioja. As a documentary/street photographer, Francisco embeds himself in the life of streets and avenues around the world, for 24 hours at a time, in order to capture the motions of the street, the theater of the public space, www.anydayproject.com. As a fine art photographer, his work has dealt with themes of inter-textuality, creating imagery that references other artistic works.
His photographs have been exhibited in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany and United States. For more information, go to www.franciscouceda.com or www.anydayproject.com
Obras / Artworks for Roll Up Gallery:
Concept: The portraits that I present in the i_Candy series address the idea of the meaning of an image as determined only by reference to other images, works, or signs. They are an invitation to the viewer to consider what we see, how we see it and how its meaning is connected to our knowledge of other images. Even further, they are invitations to the viewer to question the validity of the images, are they art or mere eye candy, mimicry and falsity (that is, work superficially attractive and entertaining, but intellectually undemanding)?
Process: As a limitation and basis for the portraits, I have used candy, pastries, cake and baking products, as make-up and props. By playing with the possibilities of the each ingredient, I construct different portraits with the same model, in the same situation. Repetition in this series is something I find I can use for different ends. So, by repeating the model, the frontal close-up pose, size, and limiting the ingredients, I am able to thread a series of portraits that gain from each other. Each image contains the history of a performance, and the process of painting with these materials, as I am makeup artist and photographer.
Galleries:
www.sohophoto.com
www.clengallery.com
Francisco Uceda is a Brooklyn-based fine art photographer, whose work explores important slightly offsetting narratives. Born in Almería, and educated in United States, Uceda earned his B.A. in anthropology and photography from Bard College and his M. Ed. from University of la Rioja. As a documentary/street photographer, Francisco embeds himself in the life of streets and avenues around the world, for 24 hours at a time, in order to capture the motions of the street, the theater of the public space, www.anydayproject.com. As a fine art photographer, his work has dealt with themes of inter-textuality, creating imagery that references other artistic works.
His photographs have been exhibited in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany and United States. For more information, go to www.franciscouceda.com or www.anydayproject.com
Obras / Artworks for Roll Up Gallery:
Concept: The portraits that I present in the i_Candy series address the idea of the meaning of an image as determined only by reference to other images, works, or signs. They are an invitation to the viewer to consider what we see, how we see it and how its meaning is connected to our knowledge of other images. Even further, they are invitations to the viewer to question the validity of the images, are they art or mere eye candy, mimicry and falsity (that is, work superficially attractive and entertaining, but intellectually undemanding)?
Process: As a limitation and basis for the portraits, I have used candy, pastries, cake and baking products, as make-up and props. By playing with the possibilities of the each ingredient, I construct different portraits with the same model, in the same situation. Repetition in this series is something I find I can use for different ends. So, by repeating the model, the frontal close-up pose, size, and limiting the ingredients, I am able to thread a series of portraits that gain from each other. Each image contains the history of a performance, and the process of painting with these materials, as I am makeup artist and photographer.
Galleries:
www.sohophoto.com
www.clengallery.com
Jesus Zamarron
Artist Bio:
Zamarrón is a graphic artist whose work has been presented in different media: web, television, video, print, as well as art galleries. He has exhibited his work both in Spain, the United States and Northern Europe. He was invited to participate in the annual contest at the prestigious “New Langton Arts” gallery in 1995, after he had just arrived to San Francisco. His early work had been featured in several collective shows at Facultad de Bellas Artes of Madrid (Painting and Audiovisual Media), where he graduated in 1994. He has worked with Madrid’s Galería Gaudí on shows for international festivals. He was invited by the Spanish Consulate of San Francisco to represent Spain with his paintings at the emblematic Palace of Fine Arts. He has shown his art in group shows at the prestigious 111 Minna Gallery and Roll Up Gallery. He has participated in many Open Studios organized by SF ARTS SPAN, having a sold out show at Fort Mason Center, in 2010. He has curated art group shows in his own studio gallery: ARTS ON 9TH, and has gather quite a big roster of international artists through the years. In 2011 he curated “120 Anniversary Art Show” with 20 artists using different media, which was a big success in public and sales.
Currently, he alternates his work as an art educator at Holy Name of Jesus school with his professional activity as an artist. Day by day, he continues with his studies in art, he is getting his MA, Masters of Art Education at Academy of Art University. He has also studied multimedia and art in California, at the universities of San Francisco State and Berkeley, respectively."
Obras / Artworks for Roll Up Gallery:
The work that I have prepared for this show is about the idea of living in two worlds at the same time. Living in California I still think of my home town in Spain all the time, Almeria but also Madrid where I lived for many years. I wanted to work in a few paintings where the theme is just that, a search for peace an identity within myself. I also wanted to reflect my view of this new digital world we live in. Every time this global village seems to get smaller and smaller, thanks to the internet. I have made many friends through social media, and the four artists who participate in this show “RESIDENCES”, we have been able to communicate and participate thanks to this new medium, with the help of the internet. The characters in my paintings are old people in combined with young digital natives, we all live the same world. I see there is a digital divide between people who don’t use the internet and don’t want even to get close to a computer or smart-phone. My paintings talk about all this and more. Digital natives are born in these times, they are free but they are also tied to the machine that makes them free. It’s a bittersweet story the one I am telling in my paintings, there is liberation but also some sort of sadness in each one of my black figures.
In my paintings I enjoy expressing spontaneity and randomness with color, this gives them a type of freedom and ease that contrasts the deeper voices of the subject matter, the story behind. So at the end my art is about life itself. A struggle between the jing and the jang, the laughter and the seriousness of being alive. I feel like I am a citizen of the world, like many spaniards now have to leave the country in look for a better life, and many people in these world have to do the same. My art is represented in aggressive and raw intense colors that I take from my native land, and the light of both countries where I have been fortunate to live, the Californian and Andalusian SUN. The red colors, the yellows and ocres of the Spanish landscape and spirit, just like the collective historical psyche of the Iberian population holds true to the “tragic sense of life”. I believe my art to be universal, and nomadic, as I feel like a gypsy painter at times. I am a california painter now, but me and my art are evolving and changing daily.
Galleries:
http://www.zamarron.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/artezamarron/
http://www.spainred.us/people/jesus-p%C3%A9rez-zamarr%C3%B3n
Zamarrón is a graphic artist whose work has been presented in different media: web, television, video, print, as well as art galleries. He has exhibited his work both in Spain, the United States and Northern Europe. He was invited to participate in the annual contest at the prestigious “New Langton Arts” gallery in 1995, after he had just arrived to San Francisco. His early work had been featured in several collective shows at Facultad de Bellas Artes of Madrid (Painting and Audiovisual Media), where he graduated in 1994. He has worked with Madrid’s Galería Gaudí on shows for international festivals. He was invited by the Spanish Consulate of San Francisco to represent Spain with his paintings at the emblematic Palace of Fine Arts. He has shown his art in group shows at the prestigious 111 Minna Gallery and Roll Up Gallery. He has participated in many Open Studios organized by SF ARTS SPAN, having a sold out show at Fort Mason Center, in 2010. He has curated art group shows in his own studio gallery: ARTS ON 9TH, and has gather quite a big roster of international artists through the years. In 2011 he curated “120 Anniversary Art Show” with 20 artists using different media, which was a big success in public and sales.
Currently, he alternates his work as an art educator at Holy Name of Jesus school with his professional activity as an artist. Day by day, he continues with his studies in art, he is getting his MA, Masters of Art Education at Academy of Art University. He has also studied multimedia and art in California, at the universities of San Francisco State and Berkeley, respectively."
Obras / Artworks for Roll Up Gallery:
The work that I have prepared for this show is about the idea of living in two worlds at the same time. Living in California I still think of my home town in Spain all the time, Almeria but also Madrid where I lived for many years. I wanted to work in a few paintings where the theme is just that, a search for peace an identity within myself. I also wanted to reflect my view of this new digital world we live in. Every time this global village seems to get smaller and smaller, thanks to the internet. I have made many friends through social media, and the four artists who participate in this show “RESIDENCES”, we have been able to communicate and participate thanks to this new medium, with the help of the internet. The characters in my paintings are old people in combined with young digital natives, we all live the same world. I see there is a digital divide between people who don’t use the internet and don’t want even to get close to a computer or smart-phone. My paintings talk about all this and more. Digital natives are born in these times, they are free but they are also tied to the machine that makes them free. It’s a bittersweet story the one I am telling in my paintings, there is liberation but also some sort of sadness in each one of my black figures.
In my paintings I enjoy expressing spontaneity and randomness with color, this gives them a type of freedom and ease that contrasts the deeper voices of the subject matter, the story behind. So at the end my art is about life itself. A struggle between the jing and the jang, the laughter and the seriousness of being alive. I feel like I am a citizen of the world, like many spaniards now have to leave the country in look for a better life, and many people in these world have to do the same. My art is represented in aggressive and raw intense colors that I take from my native land, and the light of both countries where I have been fortunate to live, the Californian and Andalusian SUN. The red colors, the yellows and ocres of the Spanish landscape and spirit, just like the collective historical psyche of the Iberian population holds true to the “tragic sense of life”. I believe my art to be universal, and nomadic, as I feel like a gypsy painter at times. I am a california painter now, but me and my art are evolving and changing daily.
Galleries:
http://www.zamarron.com
https://www.flickr.com/photos/artezamarron/
http://www.spainred.us/people/jesus-p%C3%A9rez-zamarr%C3%B3n
Paco de la Torre
Artist Bio:
Representative painter of the spanish neo-metaphysics moviment, participated in referent exhibitions Muelle de Levante (1994), Canción de las figuras (2000) and Aire de familia (2013). He has carried out twenty-six one man exhibitions and participated in more than a hundred collective exhibitions in Spanish and international circuits on cities such as Milan, Paris, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Munich and Rome, in art galleries and fairs: IVAM, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, MACUF, Instituto Cervantes, Palacio de la Virreina, Accademia di Brera, ARCO or Art Chicago.
Doctor of Fine Arts from the Universidad Politécnica of Valencia - Spain. Professor, Department of Painting (UPV). Member of the Center for Environment Art and Research (CAE-UPV). His Doctoral Thesis Figuración Postconceptual. Pintura Española: De la Nueva Figuración Madrileña a la Neometafísica (1970-2010) [Postconceptual Figuration. Spanish Painting: New Figuration Madrileña to Neo-Metaphysical (1970-2010)] has been edited by Fire Drill in 2013.
Obras / Artworks for Roll Up Gallery:
Paco de la Torre. Serie Walden houses / Casas de Walden.
Una serie a partir de la lectura de Walden de Henry David Thoreau. Notas.
Cabaña, choza, iglú, tienda o casa cubo. (Hut, cabin, iglú, tipi, cube) Todas estas unidades mínimas de habitar siempre han despertado poderosamente mi imaginación al considerarlas metáforas de seres íntimos y solitarios. Madera, tela, hielo, paja, adobe y piedra. Los materiales con los que se realizan estas construcciones forman parte de su hábitat donde se integran, respondiendo a los principios básicos de ecología. El bosque, la sabana, el glacial, el desierto o las costas almerienses. Estas puras geometrías constructivas responden a una concepción efímera, nómada o estacional. Al enfrentarme a la cabaña en la lectura, establecí un paralelismo inmediato con la casa cubo almeriense, una construcción con la que he trabajado desde mis inicios. El carácter polisémico de estos refugios los convierte en elementos recurrentes en mi obra. En esta serie, las relaciones que se establecen entre el interior y el exterior del habitáculo corren en paralelo a la percepción y advenimiento de la imagen.
Pond houses. Iglu. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Pond houses. Tipi. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Pond houses. Hut. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Pond houses. Cube. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Pond houses. Cabin. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Galleries:
http://www.pacodelatorre.net
Representative painter of the spanish neo-metaphysics moviment, participated in referent exhibitions Muelle de Levante (1994), Canción de las figuras (2000) and Aire de familia (2013). He has carried out twenty-six one man exhibitions and participated in more than a hundred collective exhibitions in Spanish and international circuits on cities such as Milan, Paris, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Munich and Rome, in art galleries and fairs: IVAM, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, MACUF, Instituto Cervantes, Palacio de la Virreina, Accademia di Brera, ARCO or Art Chicago.
Doctor of Fine Arts from the Universidad Politécnica of Valencia - Spain. Professor, Department of Painting (UPV). Member of the Center for Environment Art and Research (CAE-UPV). His Doctoral Thesis Figuración Postconceptual. Pintura Española: De la Nueva Figuración Madrileña a la Neometafísica (1970-2010) [Postconceptual Figuration. Spanish Painting: New Figuration Madrileña to Neo-Metaphysical (1970-2010)] has been edited by Fire Drill in 2013.
Obras / Artworks for Roll Up Gallery:
Paco de la Torre. Serie Walden houses / Casas de Walden.
Una serie a partir de la lectura de Walden de Henry David Thoreau. Notas.
Cabaña, choza, iglú, tienda o casa cubo. (Hut, cabin, iglú, tipi, cube) Todas estas unidades mínimas de habitar siempre han despertado poderosamente mi imaginación al considerarlas metáforas de seres íntimos y solitarios. Madera, tela, hielo, paja, adobe y piedra. Los materiales con los que se realizan estas construcciones forman parte de su hábitat donde se integran, respondiendo a los principios básicos de ecología. El bosque, la sabana, el glacial, el desierto o las costas almerienses. Estas puras geometrías constructivas responden a una concepción efímera, nómada o estacional. Al enfrentarme a la cabaña en la lectura, establecí un paralelismo inmediato con la casa cubo almeriense, una construcción con la que he trabajado desde mis inicios. El carácter polisémico de estos refugios los convierte en elementos recurrentes en mi obra. En esta serie, las relaciones que se establecen entre el interior y el exterior del habitáculo corren en paralelo a la percepción y advenimiento de la imagen.
Pond houses. Iglu. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Pond houses. Tipi. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Pond houses. Hut. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Pond houses. Cube. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Pond houses. Cabin. Oil on canvas. 50x73 cm / 19,69 x 28’74 in
Galleries:
http://www.pacodelatorre.net