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Contact: Chus Villar Iglesias
Rúa Algalia de Abaixo 39, bajo. 15704 Santiago de Compostela

The stand project proposed for ARTBO 2022 is made up of three artists represented by the gallery: Julia Huete, Miguel Marina and Luisa Pastor. Recent works of their production and unpublished works, made especially for this occasion, will be shown. Although each one works in a different formal and conceptual register, they establish a harmonious dialogue with each other. Julia Huete works abstraction using different techniques and media, always trying to understand it as a language. Her pieces are defined by the fact that they are developed between processes and with certain materials that end up influencing the identity of the work. Miguel Marina understands his work as a process in which each piece and each material leads him to the next, which has provoked formal and discursive leaps that have as a common axis to analyze and think the landscape and the different elements that compose it from the painting and the space in it. The artist usually thinks about the process that involves the union of idea-image-material as a common nexus in her practice, "a kind of fragmented narrative that evokes the making and the manual as a conscience and starting point when relating to my work on a daily basis". Luisa Pastor's work, against the organicity of the traditional work, recovers the poetic and political capacity of the fragment thanks to a critical questioning of the denotative force of language that, through a complex process of assembly, demonstrates the internal limits of the game of representation, always proving insufficient. In this way, he constructs fictional universes from humor and irony, inviting a much deeper reflection on the frames of reference that structure the material reality of the contemporary world. The main material of his work are the old account books, whose pages he works with precision and meticulousness.

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Chus Villar Iglesias
Rúa Algalia de Abaixo 39, bajo. 15704 Santiago de Compostela
+34 658044711
Julia Huete
Cuadro manso, 2021
Embroidery on cotton
170x130

Artist review

Degree in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Pontevedra with exchanges at the University of Porto (Portugal) and Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico). Master in Art Direction in Advertising. Her work has been selected in art contests such as Novos Valores in Pontevedra, Auditorio de Galicia Prize in Santiago, Isaac Díaz Pardo Plastic Arts Contest, Madrid Community Prize in Estampa 21, Cervezas Alhambra Emerging Art Prize in ARCO 21, Arte Lateral 22 Prize, Ourense Provincial Council Prize or María José Jove Foundation International Art Prize. She has exhibited collectively since 2013 in various exhibitions in Galicia, at the Kvit Gallery in Copenhagen, Centro Centro in Madrid, at the Academy of Spain in Rome or at the Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, making in 2018 her first solo exhibition in Nordés, her representative gallery. Resident of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (RAER), in the promotion 2018-2019 and in CHARCO, Mexico in 2021. Her work can be found in collections such as: CA2M, CGAC, María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection, María José Jove Foundation Collection, DKV Collection, Cervezas Alhambra Collection, Collection of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Palazzo Merulana, Oliva Arauna Collection, MICA Collection, Diputación de Ourense, Diputación de A Coruña and private collections. //WORK Julia Huete works abstraction using various techniques and media (mainly textiles, collage, drawing and painting in the last period) always trying to understand it as a language. Her pieces are defined by developing between processes and with certain materials that end up influencing the identity of the work. She likes to delve into the most elemental characteristics of each discipline to reflect on them in an aesthetic and cognitive sense. Her main concerns are the enunciative capacity of the abstract form. One of the ways in which she has worked the most is with large tapestries embroidered in cross-stitch and then placed on a frame. The works presented at the fair are part of a series of simple compositions made with a continuous line, in which the artist's recent desire to explore volume can be glimpsed (she has also begun to work in sculpture). In this type of pieces the event is twofold. The main event is on the image plane with a two-dimensional composition, but the medium, the process and the material emphasize its quality as an object and anchor its presence to something more physical.

About the artist
Julia Huete
Dinámica de la cruz, 2020
Embroidery on cotton, framed
140x200

Artist review

Degree in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Pontevedra with exchanges at the University of Porto (Portugal) and Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico). Master in Art Direction in Advertising. Her work has been selected in art contests such as Novos Valores in Pontevedra, Auditorio de Galicia Prize in Santiago, Isaac Díaz Pardo Plastic Arts Contest, Madrid Community Prize in Estampa 21, Cervezas Alhambra Emerging Art Prize in ARCO 21, Arte Lateral 22 Prize, Ourense Provincial Council Prize or María José Jove Foundation International Art Prize. She has exhibited collectively since 2013 in various exhibitions in Galicia, at the Kvit Gallery in Copenhagen, Centro Centro in Madrid, at the Academy of Spain in Rome or at the Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, making in 2018 her first solo exhibition in Nordés, her representative gallery. Resident of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (RAER), in the promotion 2018-2019 and in CHARCO, Mexico in 2021. Her work can be found in collections such as: CA2M, CGAC, María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection, María José Jove Foundation Collection, DKV Collection, Cervezas Alhambra Collection, Collection of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Palazzo Merulana, Oliva Arauna Collection, MICA Collection, Diputación de Ourense, Diputación de A Coruña and private collections. //WORK Julia Huete works abstraction using various techniques and media (mainly textiles, collage, drawing and painting in the last period) always trying to understand it as a language. Her pieces are defined by developing between processes and with certain materials that end up influencing the identity of the work. She likes to delve into the most elemental characteristics of each discipline to reflect on them in an aesthetic and cognitive sense. Her main concerns are the enunciative capacity of the abstract form. One of the ways in which she has worked the most is with large tapestries embroidered in cross-stitch and then placed on a frame. The works presented at the fair are part of a series of simple compositions made with a continuous line, in which the artist's recent desire to explore volume can be glimpsed (she has also begun to work in sculpture). In this type of pieces the event is twofold. The main event is on the image plane with a two-dimensional composition, but the medium, the process and the material emphasize its quality as an object and anchor its presence to something more physical.

About the artist
Julia Huete
La segunda, 2021
Corrugated cardboard and blue terylene canvas
80x80x80 cm.

Artist review

Degree in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Pontevedra with exchanges at the University of Porto (Portugal) and Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico). Master in Art Direction in Advertising. Her work has been selected in art contests such as Novos Valores in Pontevedra, Auditorio de Galicia Prize in Santiago, Isaac Díaz Pardo Plastic Arts Contest, Madrid Community Prize in Estampa 21, Cervezas Alhambra Emerging Art Prize in ARCO 21, Arte Lateral 22 Prize, Ourense Provincial Council Prize or María José Jove Foundation International Art Prize. She has exhibited collectively since 2013 in various exhibitions in Galicia, at the Kvit Gallery in Copenhagen, Centro Centro in Madrid, at the Academy of Spain in Rome or at the Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, making in 2018 her first solo exhibition in Nordés, her representative gallery. Resident of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (RAER), in the promotion 2018-2019 and in CHARCO, Mexico in 2021. Her work can be found in collections such as: CA2M, CGAC, María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection, María José Jove Foundation Collection, DKV Collection, Cervezas Alhambra Collection, Collection of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Palazzo Merulana, Oliva Arauna Collection, MICA Collection, Diputación de Ourense, Diputación de A Coruña and private collections. //WORK Julia Huete works abstraction using various techniques and media (mainly textiles, collage, drawing and painting in the last period) always trying to understand it as a language. Her pieces are defined by developing between processes and with certain materials that end up influencing the identity of the work. She likes to delve into the most elemental characteristics of each discipline to reflect on them in an aesthetic and cognitive sense. Her main concerns are the enunciative capacity of the abstract form. One of the ways in which she has worked the most is with large tapestries embroidered in cross-stitch and then placed on a frame. The works presented at the fair are part of a series of simple compositions made with a continuous line, in which the artist's recent desire to explore volume can be glimpsed (she has also begun to work in sculpture). In this type of pieces the event is twofold. The main event is on the image plane with a two-dimensional composition, but the medium, the process and the material emphasize its quality as an object and anchor its presence to something more physical.

About the artist
Luisa Pastor
(Serie Escrituras) Escritura a dos voces, 2022
Deconstruction of old account books
200x155x4

Artist review

Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, and PhD with extraordinary award from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Alicante). Among her scholarships she has the Scholarship of Excellence of Special Programs of the Mexican Government "Estancias de Creación Artística" (SRE/AMEXCID), the production scholarship of the Fundación Bilbao Arte or the postdoctoral scholarship of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IIE-UNAM), under the direction of Dr. Cuauthémoc Medina. In 2020, she was the artist selected to represent Spain in the biennial "Paper Routes- Women to Watch 2020" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Her work can be found in collections such as the Contemporary Art Collection of the Generalitat Valenciana or the Otazu Foundation, among others, as well as private collections in Spain, Mexico, Italy, France, USA and Germany. Her artistic work, against the organicity of the traditional work, recovers the poetic and political capacity of the fragment thanks to a critical questioning of the denotative force of language that, through a complex process of assembly, demonstrates the internal limits of the game of representation, which is always insufficient. In this way, Luisa constructs fictional universes from humor and irony, inviting a much deeper reflection on the frames of reference that structure the material reality of the contemporary world. To carry out her work, she uses old account books as her main material, whose pages she works with precision and meticulousness and whose titles do not leave indifferent. The Series proposed for the fair, "Escrituras" is composed of works on paper, made from the cut sheets of different accounting notebooks. Through the interweaving of the different spaces dedicated to economic writing, a polysemic dialogue in several voices is attempted, in search of a non-sequential reticular structure. With these works, it intends to deconstruct, in a poetic and conceptual way, the economic logic imposed by the Royal Decree of the General Accounting Plan, by breaking, dislocating, disordering or cutting the order of the hegemonic discourse. In short, through a heterogeneous superposition of fragments, its intention is to build an alternative language that, close to hypertext, enables new reading itineraries, capable of questioning the functioning of the economic system.

About the artist
Luisa Pastor
(Serie Escrituras). Escritura a dos voces, 2021
Deconstruction of old account books
144x114x4

Artist review

Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, and PhD with extraordinary award from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Alicante). Among her scholarships she has the Scholarship of Excellence of Special Programs of the Mexican Government "Estancias de Creación Artística" (SRE/AMEXCID), the production scholarship of the Fundación Bilbao Arte or the postdoctoral scholarship of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IIE-UNAM), under the direction of Dr. Cuauthémoc Medina. In 2020, she was the artist selected to represent Spain in the biennial "Paper Routes- Women to Watch 2020" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Her work can be found in collections such as the Contemporary Art Collection of the Generalitat Valenciana or the Otazu Foundation, among others, as well as private collections in Spain, Mexico, Italy, France, USA and Germany. Her artistic work, against the organicity of the traditional work, recovers the poetic and political capacity of the fragment thanks to a critical questioning of the denotative force of language that, through a complex process of assembly, demonstrates the internal limits of the game of representation, which is always insufficient. In this way, Luisa constructs fictional universes from humor and irony, inviting a much deeper reflection on the frames of reference that structure the material reality of the contemporary world. To carry out her work, she uses old account books as her main material, whose pages she works with precision and meticulousness and whose titles do not leave indifferent. The Series proposed for the fair, "Escrituras" is composed of works on paper, made from the cut sheets of different accounting notebooks. Through the interweaving of the different spaces dedicated to economic writing, a polysemic dialogue in several voices is attempted, in search of a non-sequential reticular structure. With these works, it intends to deconstruct, in a poetic and conceptual way, the economic logic imposed by the Royal Decree of the General Accounting Plan, by breaking, dislocating, disordering or cutting the order of the hegemonic discourse. In short, through a heterogeneous superposition of fragments, its intention is to build an alternative language that, close to hypertext, enables new reading itineraries, capable of questioning the functioning of the economic system.

About the artist
Luisa Pastor
Correspondencia ESP/IT, 2021
Deconstruction of old account books
43,5x31x2,5

Artist review

Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, and PhD with extraordinary award from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (Alicante). Among her scholarships she has the Scholarship of Excellence of Special Programs of the Mexican Government "Estancias de Creación Artística" (SRE/AMEXCID), the production scholarship of the Fundación Bilbao Arte or the postdoctoral scholarship of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (IIE-UNAM), under the direction of Dr. Cuauthémoc Medina. In 2020, she was the artist selected to represent Spain in the biennial "Paper Routes- Women to Watch 2020" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Her work can be found in collections such as the Contemporary Art Collection of the Generalitat Valenciana or the Otazu Foundation, among others, as well as private collections in Spain, Mexico, Italy, France, USA and Germany. Her artistic work, against the organicity of the traditional work, recovers the poetic and political capacity of the fragment thanks to a critical questioning of the denotative force of language that, through a complex process of assembly, demonstrates the internal limits of the game of representation, which is always insufficient. In this way, Luisa constructs fictional universes from humor and irony, inviting a much deeper reflection on the frames of reference that structure the material reality of the contemporary world. To carry out her work, she uses old account books as her main material, whose pages she works with precision and meticulousness and whose titles do not leave indifferent. The Series proposed for the fair, "Escrituras" is composed of works on paper, made from the cut sheets of different accounting notebooks. Through the interweaving of the different spaces dedicated to economic writing, a polysemic dialogue in several voices is attempted, in search of a non-sequential reticular structure. With these works, it intends to deconstruct, in a poetic and conceptual way, the economic logic imposed by the Royal Decree of the General Accounting Plan, by breaking, dislocating, disordering or cutting the order of the hegemonic discourse. In short, through a heterogeneous superposition of fragments, its intention is to build an alternative language that, close to hypertext, enables new reading itineraries, capable of questioning the functioning of the economic system.

About the artist
Miguel Marina
Éter, 2022
Oil on fabric
162x120x4

Artist review

Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2010-2011 he lived in Bologna, where he continued his studies within the Erasmus program at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. He has participated in residencies such as Casa de Velázquez (Madrid 2013), Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona 2016), Real Academia de España en Roma (Rome 2017-2018) and Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa (Bilbao 2019). His work has been selected in exhibitions such as A History of Recent Art (1960-2020), Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca 2021; Painting: Renovación permanente, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid 2021; Lanzarla al aire, Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa, Bilbao 2020; Generación 2020, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2020; El territorio es un acto, Injuve Sala Amadís, Madrid 2020; La radice del domani, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid 2019; Processi 145, Academia de España en Roma, Roma 2018; XXIX Circuitos Artes Plásticas, Madrid 2018 and Laboral Centro de Arte e Investigación, Gijón, 2019. Or in galleries such as: Nordés, Santiago de Compostela (2018 and 2021); Ana Mas, Barcelona (2020); The Goma, Madrid (2019 and 2021); ethall, Barcelona (2018); Combustión Espontánea, Madrid (2017) and García Galería, Madrid (2013). His work is part of collections such as: DKV, Abadía Retuerta, Bilbao Arte Fundazioa, AECID Collection, Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani, Montemadrid Collection, Fundación General Universidad Complutense Madrid and private collections.

About the artist
Miguel Marina
Sin título, 2022
Oil on fabric
130x100x4

Artist review

Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2010-2011 he lived in Bologna, where he continued his studies within the Erasmus program at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. He has participated in residencies such as Casa de Velázquez (Madrid 2013), Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona 2016), Real Academia de España en Roma (Rome 2017-2018) and Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa (Bilbao 2019). His work has been selected in exhibitions such as A History of Recent Art (1960-2020), Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca 2021; Painting: Renovación permanente, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid 2021; Lanzarla al aire, Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa, Bilbao 2020; Generación 2020, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2020; El territorio es un acto, Injuve Sala Amadís, Madrid 2020; La radice del domani, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid 2019; Processi 145, Academia de España en Roma, Roma 2018; XXIX Circuitos Artes Plásticas, Madrid 2018 and Laboral Centro de Arte e Investigación, Gijón, 2019. Or in galleries such as: Nordés, Santiago de Compostela (2018 and 2021); Ana Mas, Barcelona (2020); The Goma, Madrid (2019 and 2021); ethall, Barcelona (2018); Combustión Espontánea, Madrid (2017) and García Galería, Madrid (2013). His work is part of collections such as: DKV, Abadía Retuerta, Bilbao Arte Fundazioa, AECID Collection, Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani, Montemadrid Collection, Fundación General Universidad Complutense Madrid and private collections.

About the artist
Miguel Marina
Causa Común, 2022
Oil and graphite on canvas

Artist review

Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2010-2011 he lived in Bologna, where he continued his studies within the Erasmus program at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. He has participated in residencies such as Casa de Velázquez (Madrid 2013), Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona 2016), Real Academia de España en Roma (Rome 2017-2018) and Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa (Bilbao 2019). His work has been selected in exhibitions such as A History of Recent Art (1960-2020), Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca 2021; Painting: Renovación permanente, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid 2021; Lanzarla al aire, Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa, Bilbao 2020; Generación 2020, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2020; El territorio es un acto, Injuve Sala Amadís, Madrid 2020; La radice del domani, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid 2019; Processi 145, Academia de España en Roma, Roma 2018; XXIX Circuitos Artes Plásticas, Madrid 2018 and Laboral Centro de Arte e Investigación, Gijón, 2019. Or in galleries such as: Nordés, Santiago de Compostela (2018 and 2021); Ana Mas, Barcelona (2020); The Goma, Madrid (2019 and 2021); ethall, Barcelona (2018); Combustión Espontánea, Madrid (2017) and García Galería, Madrid (2013). His work is part of collections such as: DKV, Abadía Retuerta, Bilbao Arte Fundazioa, AECID Collection, Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Piramidón Centre d'Art Contemporani, Montemadrid Collection, Fundación General Universidad Complutense Madrid and private collections.

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