About
JOSE MANRUBIA
Freeing himself from the academic lesson, freely exploring the landscapes of his aesthetic universes, different and similar at the same time. Perhaps a fine connoisseur of disordered imaginations...
A pictorial aesthetic, intensely linked to the living, to the earth, the humanities that inhabit it, its beauty, its mirages... The eternal report of the passage of the impalpable, chimeras, stars, time.
"From my first street art actions at the beginning of the 90s, using the advertising media and the squats of the colossal megalopolis of Mexico City as a field of intervention, encouraging me in an artistic approach with a subversive dimension, to my today's work in the workshop, recovering these same poster panels through the cities where I live. Treated, smoothed, cared for, revitalized paper. Paper much more than a support, an accomplice testifying to different otherness, to forgotten lives...
My constant questioning pushes me to explore the areas of my daily life, of my imagination, tinged with dreams, absolutes. Through a figurative pictorial expression using the ballpoint pen as the main medium, or abstract using canvas, fabric, cardboard and paper as always. The power of color in its purest intention, the simplicity of the pen and its minimalism. Monochrome or colored alchemies, random compositions somewhere channeled giving the final appearance of ageless works with contemporary relief.
Major events
1990 / 1992 Frequents the artistic squat of Coyocan (Mexico), participates in several urban art projects
1996 Creation in performance with the artist Loren on a canvas of 100 square meters hung on the tower of the amphitheater of Arles
2001 First exhibition (Nîmes)
2002 Exhibition at the Belle de Mai, Marseille 2005
First exhibition in Paris, acquisition of the work "Fragil" by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Minister of Culture for Fnac
2007 Exhibition in Seoul, Korea
2009 Exhibition in Barcelona
2011 Bayonne city painting prize, creation of the ferias poster
2013 Double participation in the framework of Marseille-Provence European Capital of Culture
2015 Solo chapel Sainte-Anne Arles. Ventas Museum Exhibition, Madrid
2017 Creation of the show in tribute to Federico Garcia Lorca "Duende"
2018 Creator of the FlamencA festival, Arles2019 Creator of the show “Flamenco in poetry”
2021 Bullfighting museum exhibition in Béziers. Saint John Perse Foundation Prize, book illustration "Elles dit" by Isabelle Cousteil
2022 Solo exhibition in the chapel of St Anne, Arles, Carrousel du Louvre exhibition
Present at the Las Ventas Madrid Museum, at the National Contemporary Art Fund Practitioner at Enda, National School of Art
Member of the Paris Biennale
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