47. GUILLERMO
MORA
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Azul portátil, 2015
Wood structure and
plasticine
55 x 40 x 10 cm.
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De puntillas, 2011
Mixed media on fragments of wooden stretchers, metal
hinges
Variable dimensions
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Serie Mitad tú, mitad
yo, 2013
/ 2014
Layers of acrylic
painting piled on wood easel
Variable dimensions
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In
Alcalá de Henares (Spain) in 1980
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Paris, France
Studies:
2011/14
FPU Scholarship for PhD studies at the
Painting Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Ministry of Education of Spain.
2008/09
MFA in Contemporary Art, Universidad
Europea de Madrid.
2006/07
BFA studies at The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, USA.
1999/07
First National Award to the best
Academic Record, Ministry of Education of Spain.
Extraordinary Award to the best
Academic Record, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
BFA, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Complementary
education
2013 - Translating imposible projects.
Irina Botea workshop. MATADERO. Centro de Creación Contemporánea, Madrid.
2009 - Gonzalo Puch workshop. Blanca,
Murcia.
2008 - Federico Guzmán workshop.
Blanca, Murcia.
2007 - Enrique Marty workshop. Blanca,
Murcia.
2006 - Gary Hill Workshop, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid.
2005 - Serge Spitzer Workshop,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Themes and
style:
The " statement " of Guillermo Mora gets its meaning of a single line: " Add, subtract , multiply and divide ." Mora has given rise to one of the richest and most interesting generations of Spanish pictorical productions. In fact, to that short list of verbs , we should add another : " Recycle ". For the artistic action, Mora has drawn much of the rest or the remains; A selfless work based on providing a second chance to discarded works and tools building, more or less haphazardly , new objects with artistic autonomy and recognizable entity.
Techniques:
His work is developed in different
materials and shapes. Uses recycling.
Solo Exhibitions
2016
El escritorio circular (The round
desk), Guillermo Mora & Teresa Solar Abboud, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida
(forthcoming).
2015
Cae el cielo, ECCO, Espacio de Creación
Contemporánea, Cádiz.
2014
Never rarely often always, Zona Base,
Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca (curated by Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta).
El año que no crecí, FORMATOCOMODO
Gallery, Madrid.
2013
No A Trio A, a project by Guillermo
Mora & Pía Camil, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (curated by Luisa Fuentes
Guaza).
2012
A menudo siempre. VOLTA8
(solo-project), FORMATOCOMODO Gallery, Basel.
2011
Viaje largo con un extraño. CASA
TRIÂNGULO Gallery, Sao Paulo.
Quizás mañana haya desaparecido.
Extraspazio Gallery, Rome (curated by Teresa Macrì).
Dos episodios y un estadio. LAB,
Injuve. Murcia (curated by Pablo Lag).
2010
Una pregunta diaria. FORMATOCOMODO
Gallery, Madrid.
2009
De un soplo, Casa de la Entrevista,
Alcalá de Henares.
Tú la llevas, Casa de Cultura, El
Campello, Alicante (curated by Isabel Tejeda).
Un paseo entre el dibujo, la pintura y
un más allá, Centro de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid (curated by
Virginia Torrente).
Group Exhibitions
2015
Trio Bienal, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
(curated by Marcus de Lontra Costa).
Add Subtract Divide, Copperfield
Gallery, London, UK (curated by SCAN).
Hacia la geometría desde la
abstracción. DKV Collection, Sala Vimcorsa, Cordoba.
International Painting Award Guasch
Coranty, Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, Barcelona.
NADA Art Fair, FORMATOCOMODO Gallery,
New York, USA.
Construyendo una colección. Colección
DKV, Castillo de San Romualdo, San Fernando, Cádiz (curated by Alicia Ventura).
Poppositions, FORMATOCOMODO Gallery,
Brussels, Belgium.
Made in Spain, CAC, Málaga, Spain.
ARCO‘15, FORMATOCOMODO and CASA
TRIÂNGULO Galleries, Madrid.
9 Biennal Leandre Cristòfol, Centre
d’Art La Panera, Lérida.
Ciutat de Palma Award “Antoni Gelabert
d’Arts Visuals”, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca.
2014
El ojo toca. Miquel Mont y Guillermo
Mora, FORMATOCOMODO Gallery, Madrid.
Art Basel Miami Beach, CASA TRIÂNGULO
Gallery, Miami, USA.
Untitled FORMATOCOMODO Gallery, Miami,
USA.
100 Painters of Tomorrow, London, UK.
Fresh, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain.
artBO 2014, FORMATOCOMODO Gallery,
Bogotá, Colombia.
Est Art Fair, FORMATOCOMODO Gallery,
Estoril, Portugal.
Spain and the Elgiz Collection, Elgiz
Museum of Contemporary Art, Istambul.
BIACI. Bienal Internacional de Arte de
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (Comisariado por Berta Sichel).
Casa Triangulo no Pivò, Pivò, Copan
Building, São Paulo.
Ut pictura, Isabel Hurley Gallery,
Malaga.
Ocho cuestiones espacialmente extraordinarias,
Tabacalera. Espacio para el arte, Madrid (Curated by Virginia Torrente).
ARCO’14, FORMATOCOMODO and CASA
TRIÂNGULO Galleries, Audemars Piguet Booth, Madrid.
Trace 14, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary
Art, Istambul.
2013
2014 / Before leaving. Ideas about
painting. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa MAC, A Coruña (curated
by David Barro).
artBO 2013, FORMATOCOMODO Gallery,
Bogotá, Colombia.
LIMBER: spatial painting practices,
Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury & Grandes Galleries de L'Erba, Rouen.
(Curated by Jost Münster & Cherry Smith).
Elgiz 13, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary
Art, Istanbul.
SP-ARTE, CASA TRIÂNGULO Gallery, Sao
Paulo.
Andratx on paper, CCA Andratx,
Mallorca, Spain (curated by Patricia Asbaek).
ON PAINTING [prácticas pictóricas
actuales... más allá de la Pintura o más acá]. CAAM, Centro Atlántico de Arte
Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria y CEART, Fuenlabrada (curated by
Omar-Pascual Castillo).
GENERACIÓN 2013, Proyectos de Arte Caja
Madrid. La Casa Encendida, Madrid (curated by Ignacio Cabrero).
ARCO’13, FORMATOCOMODO and CASA
TRIÂNGULO Galleries, Madrid.
SOLO OBJECTS - ARCO’13, FORMATOCOMODO
Gallery, Madrid.
2012
Ensayos autónomos, OTR espacio de arte,
Madrid (curated by Bruno Leitão).
This dialogue is fine but a decision is
always an alone act. Concepts are never perfect, complete or exhausted. I want
to make that fleeting moment permanent somehow. “Your errors are your key”. She
made me believe in not linear projects, in parallel or secondary structures, in
error and failure as a starting point. Sorry I've just realized I’m thinking
about a different work. Noestudio, Madrid (Curated by Tiago de Abreu pinto).
12 International Show of Art Gas
Natural Fenosa, MACUF, A Coruña.
Hacer el fracaso. Inéditos 2012, La
Casa Encendida, Madrid (curated by Daniel Cerrejón).
Zona MACO. FORMATOCOMODO Gallery.
México D.F.
ARCO’12, CASA TRIÂNGULO and
FORMATOCOMODO Galleries (highligthed artist), Madrid.
Lejos de Casa. MasArt Gallery,
Barcelona (curated by Virginia Torrente).
2011
El Ranchito. Matadero, Madrid.
(Site-specific project curated by Luisa Fuentes Guaza).
Nomadismi. Royal Spanish Academy in
Rome.
VOLTA 7. FORMATOCOMODO Gallery. Basel.
Zona MACO. FORMATOCOMODO Gallery.
Mexico DF.
ARCO’11. FORMATOCOMODO Gallery, Madrid.
Work in Progress. Royal Academy of
Spain in Rome.
2010
FRIEZE Art Fair. CASA TRIÂNGULO
Gallery. London.
XII International Award for Young
Artists. Luís Adelantado Gallery, Valencia.
VOLTA 6. FORMATOCOMODO Gallery. Basel.
Zona MACO. FORMATOCOMODO Gallery.
Mexico DF.
47º International Award of visual arts,
Pollença. Mallorca.
Explum 2010, International Contemporary
Art Award, Puerto Lumbreras.
Periféricos, Sala Puertanueva,
Diputación de Córdoba.
ARCO’10, Stand ABC. Madrid.
2009
XX CIRCUITOS, Comunidad de Madrid
(curated by Javier Díaz Guardiola).
Yo no tengo razón, MFA Thesis,
Offlimits, Madrid.
Un nuevo comienzo, Sala Puertanueva,
Diputación de Córdoba.
2008
XI Biennial of Visual Arts, Pamplona.
X International Show “Union FENOSA”,
MACUF, La Coruña
Visual Arts Award for Young Creators
UCM, Museo de América, Madrid.
IX UNICAJA Biennial of Visual Arts,
Palacio Episcopal, Málaga.
Al norte, Palacio de Revillajigedo,
Gijón.
2007
GENERACIÓN 2007, Caja Madrid Grants and
Awards, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), La Capella (Barcelona), Museo de la Pasión
and Iglesia de las Francesas (Valladolid), Atarazanas (Valencia), Santa Inés
(Sevilla).
Y si no han muerto, todavía están
vivos, Museo Municipal de Coimbra, Portugal.
Big Sky, LG Space, The School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
2006
Award for Young Creators, Ayuntamiento
de Madrid.
Los
hermosos principios, Museo de la Ciudad, Madrid.
En primera persona: la autobiografía,
Canal de Isabel II, Madrid.
Grants and awards
2015
“Emerging Painter Award”, Painting
Award Pepe Estévez, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
Grant of Visual Arts at the Spanish
College in Paris, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.
2014
II Audemars Piguet Award, ARCO’14,
Madrid.
“Artista revelación 2013” Award, RAC
Prizes, IAJ.
2013
GENERACIÓN 2013 Award, Caja Madrid Art
Projects.
2012
Grant for the promotion of the Spanish
Contemporary Art, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Spain.
2011
Grant for the promotion of the Spanish
Contemporary Art, Ministry of Culture of Spain.
2010/11
Grant for Art Studies at the Royal
Academy of Spain in Rome. Ministry of International Affairs, Spain.
2010
Grant for the production in Fine Arts.
Comunidad de Madrid.
Grant for the promotion of the Spanish
Contemporary Art, Ministry of Culture of Spain.
Honor Mention XI Premio ABC.
Acquisition Prize Explum 2010.
International Contemporary Art Award, Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia.
2009
Grant for the promotion of the Spanish
art and the support to the new tendencies in arts, Ministry of Culture of
Spain.
Grant XI International landscape
workshop. Blanca, Murcia (Directed by Gonzalo Puch).
D-Mencia 09, Doña Mencía, Córdoba.
2008
Grant for Postgraduate studies,
Fundación La Caixa.
Grant X International landscape
workshop. Blanca, Murcia (Directed by Federico Guzmán).
Acquisition-Prize X Visual Arts Award
CEC, Cádiz.
2007
Grant for International Studies in USA,
BANCAJA.
First Prize XXXVIII Painting Award
“Ciudad de Alcalá”, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
Grant IX International landscape
workshop. Blanca, Murcia (Directed by Enrique Marty).
2005
Grant for Visual Arts, Fundación de
Artes Plásticas Rafael Botí, Córdoba.
Collaboration Scholarship with the
Painting and Restoration Department of the Studio Art College (UCM), Ministry
of Education and Science.
Finalist Certamen Andaluz de Artes
Plásticas. Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud.
Residences
2015
Spanish College in Paris, France.
2013
Artist in Residence, CCA Andratx,
Mallorca, Spain (commission: Barry Schwabsky, Patricia Asbaek & Friederike
Nymphius).
2010 / 2011
Spanish Academy in Rome. Ministry of
International Affairs, Spain.
2005
"Pour L´Instant", Residence
for young european photographers, Niort, France.
Residence for sculptors “Alfonso
Ariza”, La Rambla, Cordoba.
2004/2005
Residence for Young Creators, Antonio
Gala Foundation, Cordoba.
2003
Rodríguez-Acosta Foundation, Granada.
Collections
Alcalá de Henares City Council, Spain
Caja Madrid Foundation, Spain
Caldic Collection, The Netherlands
CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain
DKV, Spain
Explum collection
Fundación Canaria para el desarrollo de
la pintura, Las Palmas
Elgiz Museum, Istambul
Fondazione Benetton, Italy
Olor Visual Collection
OTR Collection, Spain
Rodríguez-Acosta Foundation, Spain
Rafael Botí Foundation for the fine
Arts
Royal Talens SA.
Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection,
Chicago, USA
The Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
Ministry of International Affairs,
Spain
Spanish Academy in Rome, Italy
In his own words:
“I see painting as a multiple tool that
lets me move between the ideal of constructing an image and a constant
metamorphosis based on different fragments.
As a personal landscape, my work produces
pieces made out of traditional painting materials that rethink and question the
process of painting in constant formation, reconstruction and recycling.
Hybrids that dislodge their origins, ever-changing paintings that act as a
means of comprehending the ephemeral conditions of the world around us.”
Representative
Galleries:
SCAN Artist
Fundación Antonio Gala
Matadero Madrid
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