Category Archives: Collaborations

Madrid, 1986. Live and works in Barcelona.

 

Julia Varela is an artist who works on the medium and materiality of images in the age of digital technology. Her research focuses on the states adopted by the irrepressible who resist representation.

The physical form of her work analyses the globalization of industries, technological matter and the concept of visuality. Her work intensifies our physical interaction with devices and their mechanisms, providing an alternative understanding of notions such as context and desire.

Julia has been part of the Critical Images research program in Kungl Konsthögskolan Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and a master’s degree in Art Sculpture from the Royal College of Art London. Her latest exhibitions have taken place at: Centro de Cultura Contemporánea CondeDuque, Madrid; Fundació Suñol, Barcelona; Somerset House, London; Belgrade Cultural Centre BCC, Belgrade; Listost Gallery, Prague; Decad, Berlin; Yamakiwa Gallery, Japan; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Galleri Mejan, Stockholm; Resartis, Melbourne; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; CUL DE SAC Gallery, London.

Lima, Perú (1992). Lives and Works between London and Madrid.

 

 

 

His work moves between painting, installation and public intervention, his research seeks a horizontal display of critical observations based on extensive documentary work. Daniel de la Barra tells us about the crisis of looking at nature, the representation of the landscape as an extractive process and the points of friction that exist between image, history and modernity. His multidisciplinary work gives us the opportunity to investigate the colonial conflicts that have relegated nature to a subaltern space of exploitation and domination and compose an exercise in countervisuality that reflects, from a global perspective, on the representation of the landscape as an extractive and exercise of power.

 

His work materializes in anti-landscape exercises through socio-environmental violence against neo-extractivism through a political and historical journey, reminiscent of botanical expeditions that reinforce ways of looking at the natural; like a landscape of conquest.

During 2022 he was an artist in residence at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (Italy), in addition to presenting his individual exhibitions at the Joan Prats Gallery (Barcelona) where he received the Collezione Taurisano Award for best exhibition, Ginsberg Gallery (Lima) and at the Central Museum of Lima as part of the exhibition of finalists for the XII National Painting Award. He has also exhibited individually this year at Frieze London and has received the grant as a new resident artist at the Delfina Foundation (London) and the Fundació Miró and Casa Velázquez Grant in Madrid for 2023.

 

In 2021 he developed the project “This is not a landscape. Episode II” at Homesession as part of its INVITED program and received the Catalonia Youth Art Award (Sala d’Art Jove) for publishing his book “Real Expedición Botánica” in collaboration with the Lo Pati Contemporary Art Center (Amposta) and La Panera (Lleida). He also did a residency at La Fabrique (French Alliance in Lima, Peru). In 2020 he was selected as a resident artist at Homesession (Barcelona) where he developed his project “This is not a landscape”. He exhibited “Desired Landscapes” at Arts Santa Mónica, “Considerations of the Modern City” at La Bienal de Amposta (Lo Pati Center d’Art) and his project “Subversion: Inhabiting Ruins” at El Born CCM (Barcelona). He did a residency at the Piramidon Center d’art Contemporani during 2019 and carried out several projects such as “Searching for Paititi”, Espai SubSòl, for the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, “Desired Landscapes” Escola de Estiu Walter Benjamin, Portbou or “Pateras Carnaval – Well-being trips” for Luminaria 04, Madrid. In 2018 he received a scholarship at The Nerdrum School (Sweden). He also obtained the La Escocesa (Barcelona) Research Grant in 2018 and 2019, the 2019 Art Jove Award (Sala d’Art Jove), exhibiting at the Sala d’Art Jove. That same year he received the IdeaBorn International Prize and was a finalist for the Ricard Camí Painting Prize (C.C.Terrassa). In Peru, in recent years, he has been a finalist for both the ICPNA National Contemporary Art Award and the National Painting Award (MUCEN), exhibiting at the Central Museum of Lima and the Juan Pardo Hereen Gallery.

 

Badalona, ​​1991

Lives and works in Barcelona

 

Marcel Rubio Juliana expresses himself mainly through drawing and painting, although his approach to creation has, at times, certain similarities with the literary essay.

 

His work processes are usually of a very long duration. He formalizes his aesthetic investigations mainly in large formats, charcoal canvases, epic scenes in oil but also miniatures on glass.

 

Marcel Rubio Juliana’s work is characterized by his interest in classical references: Renaissance painting, sculpture and Italian architecture. He produces an iconography resulting from the natural observation of both human and animal models that runs through all his canvases. Marcel is not afraid to face great themes such as love, death, resurrection, however, elements of everyday life or popular culture can always appear in his paintings.

 

From the allegory, which ironically includes contemporary grotesque representations, in his own words, his work is built around a single purpose: “elevate the spirit.”

Fabian Marcaccio

Rosario, Argentina, 1963

Lives and works in New York

 

 

Fabian Marcaccio is one of the pioneers of digital painting. Attempting to redefine the pictorial genre, his work extends the temporal and spatial parameters, and tracks the integration of the hand-made and the machine-made.

 

In the nineties, he worked with composition and digital printing and, later on 3D printing, to create pictorial works that he calls Paintants, a neologism from painting and mutant. Marcaccio considers painting as a constellation of changing content, sometimes rendered as panels, sometimes as 3D configurations, sometimes as animations, and sometimes on an environmental scale.

Pauline Bastard

Paris, 1982

Lives and works in Paris, France

 

Pauline Bastard creates complex narratives developed through installations, films and sculptures containing and relating to her experiments. Through collaborations she questions the construction of the self and its place in the contemporary world.

Pauline Bastard creates stories, making them happen, using situations as matter and taking seemingly unrealizable experiences as material for production.

Calella, Barcelona, 1963

Lives and works in Calella, Barcelona

 

Jordi Alcaraz’s work is a reflection on volume, artistic language and time through a lyrical handling of materials. An abstraction that is the result of the battle against limitations of format and conventions.

 

His work is based on the classical tradition of painting and sculpture and alters the meaning of the foundations of a real and recognizable object, to new genesis of meaning and continent.

 

Jordi Alcaraz transgresses surfaces and materials, gives unlikely uses to his pieces and redefines the logic of frames and methacrylate, of stones and plasters, of mirrors and woods, of shadows and metals; changing perceptions and conventional treatments.

 

He has done different bibliophile editions such as “El Viatge a Tokushima”, with text by Joaquim Sala-Sanahuja, or “Diorames”, together with Joan Brossa, Alfons Borrell, Perejaume and Jordi Rosés.