Artist statement: Juan Casbas Puértolas

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My painting announces through its characters a world capable of losing its securities. Pandemics, technological revolutions as well as the destruction of human anthropology and nature illuminate the current dystopia in all possible fields.

 

From a formal point of view and to analyze not only the "what" but also the "how", I have developed a ductus, a pictorial trace, that allows me to analyze the forms of the gaze in order to be able to think about how we build the world. This ductus is heir to Cézanne's perspectivism. It is a pictorial stroke that does not close the forms and the lines but rather that accumulates them and makes them works as pieces that partially produce for a general composition whose purpose is unknown. All of them: spots, colors, contours live in the Deleuzian field of intensities. Rhizomatically they appear and disappear without establishing chiaroscuro protocols.

 

This accumulation, this collecting of images, this totality of DATA, is so far as its ubiquity does not have a civilizing, humanistic bias, but rather it fragments us and forces us to exist by increasing, expanding the palette of production.

 

Despite the fact that my characters live in the 21st century, as a society they have not been able to overcome the Nietzschean Deconstruction with a hammer and have made it a postmodernism non-stop, automated, concreted and tyrannical both against anthropology itself and against nature.

 

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C.V. Juan Casbas Puértolas

 

Jaca, Spain, 1971

 

1990-96 Bachelor Fine Arts, University San Jordi de Barcelona. Department of Sculpture.

1993 Exchange Partnership Erasmus Program with The Macintosh School of Art, Glasgow, Scottland. Department of Modern Painting.

1994-96   Erasmus Scholarship Universität der Künste Berlin. Photograpic Seminar under the direction of prof. Karel Appel. Experiental cinema Seminar under the direction of prof. Heinz Emigholz.

1997-98   Animations Films course  in The Universität für Film und Fernsehen Konrad. Wolf, Potsdam, under the direction of Prof. Peter Blümel

2000 Painting course in the Akademie der Künste Weissensee under the direction of Prof. Katherina Grosse

 

Exhibitions and Awards

 

1990-93   Diputación general de Aragón Emerging Artist.

1992        Caja Madrid concurso de pintura mural, barcelona

1993        Glasgow School of art

1993        Casa de Cultura Jaca

1993        Café Ikaro, Jaca

1993        El pasaje Gallery, Jaca

1994        Culture House, Jaca

1994        International Sculpture Symposium Piau- Engaly

1995        Performance Nefertiti, Egyptian Museum, Berlin

1996        Atelier House Apparat. Alte Schönhauser Allee, Berlin-Mitte

1999        Berlin Senate, video creation Doxa, 

1999        Collective Exhibition Rapitan, Huesca.

2000-03   Art Forum Ipiés, Huesca

2001        Collective Exhibition in Serrablo Museum, Sabiñanigo:  International Sculpture Orensanz Award.

2003        Collective Exhibition Dadelos, Contemporary Art Museum El matadero, Huesca.

2004       UNED, Barbastro, Huesca

2004       Morlanes Palace, Zaragoza

2008       Paisajes Privados, Diputación Provincial de Huesca.

2015       Saint Jacques Chapel, Borce, France.

2019       Art and Philosophy. A pedagogical proyect in the High School Pedro de Luna, Zaragoza.

2020        Collective Exhibition From Identity to Totality, Congress Palace Gallery, Jaca. In colaboration with the philosopher Laura Linares:

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INSTALATION

 

2013       Ode to horror as an intimate experience, Contemporary Art Festival Periferias, Huesca.

 

PERFORMANCES

 

2012      Heraclitus: Panta rei, Canfranc Station, Huesca.

2013      Nietzsche between presence and quotidianity, Seminar for diffusion of Nietzschean thoughts, Complutense University, Madrid.

2013      From Delphi to the Agora, Banaguás, Huesca.

2013      One sky day, Astún, Huesca.

2013      Paul Cézanne and Friedrich Nietzsche at  Col d’Ayous, France.

2014      Hegel, Centro de drogodenpendencia de Jaca.

2015     Goya, a new coven. Cortilandia, calle Preciados, Madrid

2018     The Play rules, La Quinta del sordo Art Space, Madrid.

2019     The Play rules, en Espacio Bóveda del albergue, Zaragoza