Madrid, Spain

Traditional culture in the West and among them pictorial, is governed, in general, by established rules. I have no interest in accommodating those rules. My work and my philosophy go in other ways.

I try to capture the mental principle of artistic creation at its root, where the first impulse is born, still virgin of any contamination.

My work, therefore, is governed by parameters known as art or "outsider" style. In painting, as in other facets of art, there are styles that, perhaps, because they belong to what is normally established, enjoy general acceptance, attention and respect. Others, on the contrary, are discarded or, at least, undervalued and cornered in the attic of the non-commercial.

Works by people lacking artistic culture, in which mimicry has had little or no influence, draw motifs, selection of materials, methods, rhythms and styles of their own selves, outside of classical art or fashion art. Thanks to them we can contemplate the artistic work in its purest form, reinvented in each and every one of its phases by the painter, and based only on his own impulses. An art, therefore, where the creative invention is absolutely manifested.

This art is classified, however, with condescension and self-sufficiency, as typical of "children", "primitives" and even "crazy". Personally, in recent times I have researched and worked on how to "feel" the painting practiced by people with intellectual disabilities, and I find it very interesting, indeed, for its primitiveness and pictorial anti-culture. Most are self-taught and with a rudimentary instruction that does not prevent them, however, outside the cultural environment and preserved from their influence, show that artistic creation is not a privilege of exceptional individuals, despite being conditioned or altered because of the situation social and permeability against inherited myths.

AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS:

Selected with the II Painting Prize Recoletos Gallery, Madrid (1993)

Selected in the XIII Black and White Painting Prize for young artists, Madrid (1994)

Individual exhibition Club de la Moraleja, Madrid (1995)

Individual exhibition Victoria Hidalgo Gallery, Madrid (1995)

Selected in the XII Durán Gallery Award, Madrid (1996)

Awarded the first prize of the IV Painting Contest Recoletos Gallery, Madrid (1996)

Individual exhibition Azteca Gallery, Madrid (1996)

Individual exhibition Club Mirasierra, Madrid (1996)

Collective exhibition Galería del Prado, Madrid (1997)

Collective exhibition Galería Detursa, Madrid (1997)

Traveling collective exhibition in Germany promoted by the Azteca Gallery, Madrid (1997)

Collective exhibition Prova Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (1998)

Collective exhibition Prova Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (1999)

Selected by Creative Artist Network, Philadelphia for the cultural exchange between the United States and Spain, USA (1999)

Individual exhibition Prova Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2000)

Individual exhibition Balboa Gallery 13, Madrid (2000)

Collective exhibition Puchol Gallery, Valencia (2000)

Barcelona Fair, Artexpo (2000)

Seville Art Fair (2000)

UNICEF collective exhibition sponsored by Caixa, Valencia (2000)

Valencia Interarte Fair (2000)

Collective exhibition Puchol Gallery, Valencia (2000)

Itinerant exhibition promoted by the Puchol Gallery in Chicago, New York,

San Francisco and Miami, USA (2000)

Individual exhibition Puchol Gallery, Valencia (2000)

Seville Art Fair (2001)

Collective exhibition Benedito Gallery, Malaga (2001)

Collective exhibition Galería Castelló, 120, Madrid (2001)

Valencia Interarte Fair (2001)

Collective exhibition Puchol Gallery, Valencia (2001)

Seville Art Fair (2002)

Collective exhibition Puchol Gallery, Valencia (2002)

Seville Art Fair (2003)

Collective exhibition Benedito Gallery, Malaga (2003)

Collective exhibition Pablo Ruíz Gallery, Málaga (2003)

Valencia Interarte Fair (2003)

Individual exhibition Paz Feliz Gallery, Madrid (2004)

Collective exhibition Paz Feliz Gallery, Madrid (2005)

ARM Arman Gallery collective exhibition, Chicago (2008)

ARM Arman Gallery collective exhibition, Chicago (2009)

Feria Foro Sur’10 Contemporary Art Fair Marita Segovia Gallery (2010)

Collective exhibition Marita Segovia Gallery, Madrid (2010)

Art Madrid Marita Segovia Gallery, Madrid (2011)

Collective exhibition ArtePaso Gallery, Madrid (2011)

Almoneda Galeria Marita Segovia Fair, Madrid (2011)

Viky Cortina Gallery Exhibition, Barcelona (2011)

Exhibition MDA Helsingborg Gallery, Sweden (2011)

Art Madrid Marita Segovia Gallery, Madrid (2012)

Almoneda Fair Art Deco Gallery Madrid (2012)