Under the name "From the essential", the exhibition brought together artists who develop their material research on the basis of elements and colours present in nature, such as wood, metals or natural pigments. The show values the purification of form and is committed to a return to the essential, to the minimum. The rejection of excess and accumulation are the artistic and social concepts that drive this solidarity initiative.
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Dates:
7, 10, 11 and 12 March
Glass of wine and charity auction:
11 March at 18:00h
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PONS Foundation.
Calle Serrano, 138 28006 Madrid
Title Touareg Women' ensemble
Year 2015
Technique Various carved and waxed woods
Dimensions 10/50 cm (height) x 8/12 (width)
Price 500 EUROS + VAT (SMALL), 900 EUROS + VAT (MEDIUM), 1600 EUROS + VAT (LARGE)
*Discount per set
Pablo Redondo Díez "Odnoder", has developed his sculptor facet for fifteen years, in parallel to his work as an architect in "arquipablos", the architecture studio to which he belongs. With the passage of time the sculptor has been gaining ground and it could be said that today he is fully dedicated to sculpture in a magical workshop in Chinchón.
In his sculptures he systematically seeks simplicity and beauty in the forms and his aim is that the spectator is not left indifferent before his pieces, with that melody thought out with his hands and ready to be caressed with his gaze.
His work moves in the figurative abstraction, of organic inspiration and longs for the maximum expressiveness with the minimum gesture. For him, the basic material and the starting point for all his work is wood, although he likes mixtures of materials such as steel, ceramics, resins, concrete and bronze.
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Title The Wind in Isla Cristina
Series The Winds of Iberia
Technique Cold forged steel, welded, patinated
Dimensions 35x40x30
Price 3000 EUROS + VAT
Juan Ramón Martín (Madrid, 1958) is a Spanish architect, teacher, engraver and sculptor, known for his steel sculptures integrated into urban and architectural spaces. He studied architecture at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and founded the Klee-arquitectura studio. Since 2005, he has specialised in creating metal sculptures, especially in iron and steel, for public spaces such as fountains, squares and gardens. He has also been a lecturer at the CEU San Pablo University Foundation since 1987.
Martín has explored sculptural techniques since his youth, combining geometry and rationalism in his works, which he creates using techniques such as welded sheet metal and acid baths to achieve different textures in the metal. His sculptures can be found in various public and private collections, such as the "Monument to the Greek Sailors" in Athens or the "Fountain of the Principle" in Las Rozas.
He has received numerous awards, such as the Premio Nacional de Escultura de la Fundación Díaz Caneja in 2010 and the Premio Internacional del Instituto Cervantes in 2019. In addition, he has exhibited his work at various fairs and galleries, both in group and solo exhibitions.
Artist, illustrator and cultural activist. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has lived in Madrid for more than 20 years, where she works as an illustrator for major media ('El País', Spain and 'La Nación', Argentina). In 2012, she began to explore her personal work coinciding with her becoming a mother, circumstances intrinsically related: raising alone, creating her home-studio and her personal work are part of the same aesthetic gesture.
He conceives each work as a game, where everything happens in real time. He is interested in abstract figuration, in the subtle balance where the forces of chance, the unconscious gesture and the sensitivity of drawing dialogue.
He stops at the right point, where the viewer's intervention is essential to complete the work, as an invitation to new starting points. His recurring themes are bonds and identity.
He was born in Madrid, where he graduated in Fine Arts (with a double specialisation in Restoration and Painting) and received his doctorate with the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Since his student days he has been passionate about ancient and contemporary painting techniques and procedures. He was able to complete his training in this field thanks to an FPI research grant (Madrid, Rome and Florence) and a postdoctoral fellowship, which culminated in a patent and several publications.
His work has a strong conceptual background combined with a deep technical knowledge. He expresses his broad plastic universe by elaborating his own materials based on epoxy resin combined with pigments, fillers, Nepalese and African papers, fibreglass and various innovative elements.
He has participated in more than 100 art exhibitions, receiving several awards. His works have travelled all over the world, from Spain to New York, London, Portugal, France, Italy, Iran, China, etc.
She combines her artistic work with teaching activities. She teaches a Master's degree in Contemporary Techniques at the Escuela Superior de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales de Madrid and is a lecturer in Classical Techniques. This allows her to be at the forefront of her field and enables her to experiment with new pictorial formulas which she includes in her creative process.
He descends from a family that has been dedicated to the clay and potter's wheel trade for more than a hundred years. He is the son of Antonio Naharro Flores, from whom he learned the clay and pottery wheel trade, and began working professionally at the age of 19.
For two years, she trained prisoners in the penitentiary system in Logroño and collaborates with the "Journey towards life" project, teaching pottery making to women potters in Mauritania.
He studied at the School of Ceramics in Logroño and began his career as a potter and the pottery trade in 1982. Since that time, he has held a variety of creative pottery exhibitions. In 2012, he created his own pottery workshop which he called "Alma de Cántaro" where he makes each piece by hand, painted and fired, focusing his work on contemporary ceramics, signature tableware and traditional pottery in La Rioja. She also works on rescuing Basque and Navarrese pottery, which is now extinct, and rescues traditional pieces from artistic ceramics. He dedicates his work to mixing traditional craftsmanship, innovation and design.
Throughout his career, he has held exhibitions of his work throughout the state, such as the one called Arte en la Tierra, in 2018, closely linked to the Land Art movement.
That same year, Naharro collaborated with the performance Picassium. In 2019, he was among those selected for the Manises International Ceramics Biennial with a piece called Gran Medida. In 2019 Naharro created different designs for the Hotel Barceló Sitges and the Hotel Boutique Grañón. In 2020 he designed and created the image of the perfume Loewe for China-2020.
Born in 1973, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1983 she enters the Bachillerato de Bellas Artes of the UNLP, institution where she graduates as Professor and Licentiate in Visual Arts. Later she studied postgraduate studies at the Ernesto de la Cárcova School, in CABA. Since 1993 she has participated in National and International Salons, where she has received awards and grants, and has held temporary residencies in France, Germany and Spain. His works are owned by Fundación YPF, Banco Nación, Fundación OSDE, Instituto Fleming, Centro Cultural Borges and private collections in Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, Angola, Canada, USA, Aruba, Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina.
Since she was a child, she has been interested in manual work in the tradition of the women in her family: dressmakers, trouser-makers, weavers, embroiderers, ironers; her father makes camping tents and this also provided her with a great adaptability to improvise and set up her nomadic workshop, an open-air campaign in unusual places, such as the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina, in the Empordá in the Mediterranean Sea in Spain, or in an industrial shed, her current studio in an old sawmill in her home town.
Born in 1973, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1983 she enters the Bachillerato de Bellas Artes of the UNLP, institution where she graduates as Professor and Licentiate in Visual Arts. Later she studied postgraduate studies at the Ernesto de la Cárcova School, in CABA. Since 1993 she has participated in National and International Salons, where she has received awards and grants, and has held temporary residencies in France, Germany and Spain. His works are owned by Fundación YPF, Banco Nación, Fundación OSDE, Instituto Fleming, Centro Cultural Borges and private collections in Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, Angola, Canada, USA, Aruba, Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina.
Since she was a child, she has been interested in manual work in the tradition of the women in her family: dressmakers, trouser-makers, weavers, embroiderers, ironers; her father makes camping tents and this also provided her with a great adaptability to improvise and set up her nomadic workshop, an open-air campaign in unusual places, such as the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina, in the Empordá in the Mediterranean Sea in Spain, or in an industrial shed, her current studio in an old sawmill in her home town.
Born in Seville on the penultimate day of November 1962.
1996-2010: Head of "Meridiana-Madrid", a gallery-shop selling and exhibiting decorative objects and textiles. She is interested and researches mainly in the textile world.
In 2008 he presented "Ese lunar", his first collection of unique pieces, at Fortuny, 22. Recovered cloths, in this case Manila shawls, and contemporary ones coexist in harmony in each piece, as do the very different textures.
They were followed by other collections - Henna, Mediterráneo, Vuela, Maestranza, Bambú, Manila - following his philosophy of recovering and adding a contemporary touch to the pieces. He began to introduce drawing and painting. Nature is always present.
In 2010 she created her first collection of hand-painted porcelain, "Vuela". Following the line of textile work, she recovers and paints objects creating unique pieces.
Some of this work has been exhibited and sold at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, AA gallery shop, Meridiana, and is in the Zuluaga Foundation, among other collections. Currently, he continues to work in this direction, and incorporates new lines of expression, working on apparently unrecoverable objects.
In 2017, she started embroidering Japanese paper, by hand, with silk and cotton.
Born in 1945 in Seville, he has been painting since he was 13 years old, and when his third child was born, he began to attend classes in procedure and figure painting at the Fine Arts School.
Subsequently, he had a shared studio with 5 friends for 15 years, holding shared exhibitions at the Galeria Syra in Barcelona, in Antequera and permanently in Seville, including two solo exhibitions. He has also exhibited in Mexico DF and Ronda.
His speciality has always been portraiture, although over the years he has also touched on other themes such as landscapes, cauldrons, and has even approached abstraction on many occasions, although he recognises that human figures have always been his weakness.
Born in 1945 in Seville, he has been painting since he was 13 years old, and when his third child was born, he began to attend classes in procedure and figure painting at the Fine Arts School.
Subsequently, he had a shared studio with 5 friends for 15 years, holding shared exhibitions at the Galeria Syra in Barcelona, in Antequera and permanently in Seville, including two solo exhibitions. He has also exhibited in Mexico DF and Ronda.
His speciality has always been portraiture, although over the years he has also touched on other themes such as landscapes, cauldrons, and has even approached abstraction on many occasions, although he recognises that human figures have always been his weakness.
Born in Jaén in 1985.
Learning through experimentation and with exploration as the main driving force of his work, he began working with collage with photographs and illustrations in a fresh and daring way, strongly influenced by graphic design, combining commissions and exhibitions with collaborations with fashion magazines. Over time her approach becomes more personal and reflective and she creates her own characteristic language that has opened the doors to both national and international projects.
In the words of Sergio Antoranz López, Doctor of Philosophy and Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid: "Clear, synthetic and precise. Jimmy Millán's work takes on one of the most difficult tasks in contemporary art: to group the dispersion and multiplicity of our time into synthetic elements such as the line, the shadow and the volume that gesture and everyday objects lost long ago. Millán's work reconquers what has been lost".
With more than 50 exhibitions since 2015 in Spain, Portugal, the UK, Germany and South Korea, Millán has a visitable studio in Madrid and also works on commission.
Born in Madrid in 1992, he spent his early years in the capital's Sierra surrounded by artists.
(father a sculptor, mother a musician, grandmother a painter and singer and several other types of sculptors and painters).
After having explored the world of music, at around the age of 25, he entered the
stone sculpture, without leaving his main profession, food engineering and cooking. At the age of 30 he decided to devote himself completely to sculpture and exploration, focusing mainly on working with different types of marble. He has held several exhibitions in Spain, France and Portugal.
Thomas Benech's passion for sculpture was awakened at the age of 8, when he began to carve oak bones and pine bark into small sculptures. A native of France, he focused his studies on Fine Arts where he combined new work proposals with his passion for volume and illustration, thus projecting his professional future. He has been living in Madrid for more than 16 years and has several life experiences as well as exhibitions abroad. Through her work she has broadened and deepened her knowledge and techniques to now work with different materials and supports and continue to express her creativity.
Bending and twisting the monotony of the straight line with a symbolic emotional charge, where balance and openings direct creative thought, through which he invites us to penetrate the poetry of his work.
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Title Palmettes
Year 2021
Technique Relief in exaduro
Dimensions 35 x 35 x 2.5 cm
Price 700 EUROS + VAT (framed)
She is a painter and sculptor. PhD in Fine Arts and professor of Sculpture at the Complutense University of Madrid since 2007.
He has received 6 awards in painting and sculpture competitions (Pinto, Guadarrama, Ayllón, Aranjuez, UCM and Montilla), 3 Honourable Mentions and 31 selections with exhibitions such as Bancaixa, Fundación Barceló, Salón de Otoño de Madrid, Caja España, Tomelloso, Daimiel, Pradilla, Galería Alfama. He has had 9 solo exhibitions and 95 group exhibitions (Spain, Florence, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Oporto, Sofia) in Galleries, Museums and Exhibition Halls. He has received 3 Grants for Artistic Creation: Ayllón, Móstoles and Paradores de Turismo de España and his work is present in public and private collections.
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Title BOTANICS I
Year 2021
Technique Photo collage
Dimensions 75 x 60 cm (height x width)
Price 900 EUROS + VAT
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Title BOTANICS II
Year 2021
Technique Photo collage
Dimensions 75 x 60 cm (height x width)
Price 900 EUROS + VAT
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Title BOTANICS III
Year 2021
Technique Photo collage
Dimensions 75 x 60 cm (height x width)
Price 900 EUROS + VAT
Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA, Ohio Wesleyan University, USA. Master of Fine Arts in Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.
He lived and worked in New York at Sotheby's and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and collaborated with a number of photographers, including Tom Caravaglia, Josef Astor and Joel Sternfeld.
He currently lives in Madrid and collaborates with clients such as: Bertelsmann Group, Penguin Random Housen, Galaxia Guttenberg, Teatro Real, Repsol, Coca Cola and ClassPaper among others.
Publications: El País weekly, El Mundo, La Razón, El Cultural, ABC, Dunia, Marie Claire, Telva and Vogue.
Exhibitions: Retropictures Gallery, New York, Fireland Association for the Visual Arts, Ohio, EFTI, Madrid, Artists Experience, Madrid, Galería Gaudí, Madrid.
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Valart Gallery is a unique project that fuses human creativity with the serenity and strength of the natural elements. The space, conceived as a refuge of inspiration and contemplation, is located on the northern cornice of the Vega de Chinchón, seeking a deep connection between art and the environment. Here the natural elements are not only the context, but the very materials and protagonists of the works presented.
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