26.JULIO GALÁN
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Cuatro palabras
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Técnica:
óleo sobre tela
Medidas: 130 x 190 cm
Año: 1999
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El necesitado de amor
Técnica:
óleo sobre tela
Medidas: 190 x 130 cm
Año: 1998
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1959 in Múzquiz, Coahuila. ( México)
He died in 2006 in Zacatecas, México.
Studies:
Galán
started painting while studying architecture at the University of Monterrey,
and later left the program to paint full-time. He began exhibiting his
paintings in Monterrey in 1980 at Galería Arte Actual Mexicano. In 1984, he
moved to New York and exhibited his works at Art Mart Gallery in Manhattan’s
East Village. Galán continued to exhibit throughout the United States, Europe,
and South America. By 1989, Gálan had become one of the most popular Mexican
painters in the art world. He was the only Mexican included in the Magiciens de
la Terre show at the Center Pompidou in Paris, and in 1995 was included in the
Museum of Modern Art’s Biennial. His last solo show, My Mirrors, was in 2001 at
Robert Miller Gallery in New York.
Themes and style:
Galán was part of the second generation of Mexican
neo-Expressionist artists during the late 1980s and 1990s. Galán’s paintings
were heavily influenced by Surrealist, self-analyzing themes found in the works
of Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954). He explores his own identity and
narcissism using symbolism, humor, and sarcasm.
Techniques:
His work is develop in paintings.
Exhibitions
2008
Julio
Galan: pensando en ti – Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico (solo)
2007
La era
de la discrepancia - Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte - MUCA, Mexico City
2006
Room
with a view - The Bouwfonds Art Collection - Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague
2005
Acquisitions
and donations to the permanent collection 2003 - 2004 - Molaa Museum of Latin
American Art, Long Beach, CA
Eco -
Arte contemporaneo mexicano - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS,
Madrid
2003
"Phantom
der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst" - Neue Galerie Graz am
Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Flor y
Canto - Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
2002
Desire -
Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna
Iets wat
zoveel kost, is alles waard - Museum De Beyerd, Breda
2001
Julio
Galan - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
Siglo XX
- Grandes Maestros Mexicanos - Prodigios de fin de siglo - Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL
Desire -
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
2000
Erógena
- SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Art at
Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection - Queens Museum of Art, New
York City, NY
1999
Julio
Galan - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris(solo)
1998
Julio
Galan - Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (England) (solo)
Julio
Galan - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris(solo)
1996
Kunsthalle
Düsseldorf Bilder und Visionen - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
1995
Julio
Galan - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris(solo)
Imaxes e
Visions - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
1994
Julio
Galán - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX(solo)
1992
El
Corazón Sangrante/The Bleeding Heart - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston,
Houston, TX
1991
Trans/Mission
– konst i interkulturell limbo /Art in Intercultural Limbo - Rooseum Center for
Contemporary Art, Malmö
1990
Julio
Galán and Guillermo Kuitca - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art,
Rotterdam
In his own words:
(Once when he was asked: "Are you in
love with yourself?") "Sure," he replied. "This is what I
paint, this love of me. Once, I took it so far as to make love to myself.
Before going to sleep, I had put one of my pictures between my bed and the wall
close to my bed. Suddenly I woke up, and the emotion was so strong that I
grabbed the painting, put it on top of me and made love with it."
Representative
Galleries:
Ramis Barquet
Lacan
Inverarte
For
more Information:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/aug/31/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
En
Español:
http://www.arteactualmexicano.com/artistas/40-Julio_Galan