Inma Fierro

INMA FIERRO (1985, Sevilla)

 EDUCATION

2010 MASTER of ARTISTIC CREATION Un. Barcelona 
2009 DEGREE in FINE ARTS Un. Barcelona
2008 LEONARDO da VINCI SCHOLARSHIP - Florence- Italy

RESIDENCIES AND ARTISTIC SYMPOSIUMS

2021 THE RETURN TO MIKTLÁN - II International Art Symposium Mexico City - Invited by Daniela Jauregui
2021 SORIA. ARTE - I International Art Symposium in Almarza- Invited by Enrique Maestu and Manolo Oyonarte
2020 BAIRPROJECT -Cologne- Germany invited by Jesse Magee
2019 ARTCICLE Residency & Workshop -Gorizia- Slovenia invited by Manolo Mesia
2019 SIANOJA XIX International Symposium of artists in Noja - Cantabria
2017 ARTCICLE Residency & Workshop -Gorizia- Slovenia invited by Tomás Paredes
2014 TEMPUS DE VISTA Residency & Workshop -Lisbon- Portugal

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Lost Paradises - Espiral Gallery, Noja (Cantabria, Spain) 
         The Garden - Lucía Dueñas Gallery, Oviedo (Asturias, Spain)
2017 Mediterranean Origin - European Parliament, Brussels 
2015 Theory of (Dis)Attachment - Viki Blanco Gallery, Gijón (Asturias) 
2014 Tree Projects - Pinacoteca Eduardo Úrculo, Langreo (Asturias) 
         From my entrails - Sala Croma, Cáceres (Cáceres, Spain) 
         The party - Viki Blanco Gallery, Gijón (Spain) 
         Nos(Others) - Metromar Center, Mairena del Aljarafe (Seville, Spain) 
2013 Dolores 'Paríos'- Viki Blanco Gallery The Art of the Impossible, Gijón 
         Tauromaquias - Casa Pintada and Gabarrón Foundation, Mula (Murcia, Spain) 
         Tauromaquias - CCCaleidoscopio, Móstoles (Madrid) 
         Dolores 'Paríos' - AC Studio, Los Palacios y Vfca (Seville, Spain) 
2012 Psicofysis- Sala LAI, Gijón (Spain) 
2011 Idilio- Sala Maravillas, Seville (Spain) 
         Opera Prima: Tauromaquias- Unodeuno Gallery, Jaen, Spain 
2010 Symposium- Centre civic Drassanes, Barcelona

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 I Symposium SORIA.ARTE- Cortabitarte Gallery, Soria (Spain)
2020 Bair Session 5.5 - Jorg Gallery - Kalmhout, Antwerp (Belgium)
2019 IX Painting Prize of Plastic Expression 
        Ramón J. Sender Foundation Plastic Arts Award 
        Lights and Shadows - AWA Collective - Real Alcázar de Sevilla (Spain) 
        XXCV Ciutat d'Algemesí - Valencia (Spain)
2018 En Femenino - Lucía Dueñas Gallery- Oviedo 
         Five Ladies - travelling exhibition in Lubiana, Gorizia and Maribor- Slovenia
2016 Ellas - Viki Blanco Gallery - The Art of the Impossible Gallery, Gijón 
         5 years are nothing - Wabi Sabi Gallery Sevilla 
2015 VI Ramón Portillo International Competition Granada 
         Christmas Collective Exhibition Viki Blanco Gallery The Art of the Impossible Gallery Gijón 
         Cruzarte Nevacan Room Cáceres 
2014 Art vs Desing Wabi Sabi Gallery Seville 
         Finally Sala Croma Cáceres Sala Nevacan Cáceres 
         Action Camera Viki Blanco Gallery Gijón 
2013 Todo a 100 Croma Cáceres Gallery 
          Painted House of the Gabarrón Foundation, Mula (Murcia, Spain) 
          Sabadell Art Biennial 
2012 Two Hemispheres Gabarron's Foundation New York 
         Artist's book Fabula Urbis 
         Collective private fund Dasto Gallery Oviedo / 
         Louis Bourgeois Project - Laudeo (Oviedo) 
         Divergent Approximations - Cáceres 
2011 Cellobert Gallery Barcelona 
         The Black Box Oviedo 
         UNIA Awards Seville

PUBLICATIONS

2021 CLASSIC STORIES FOR GIRLS AND BOYS V.II by Manuel Calvente and Kike de los Reyes. Ocala Publishing House 
2019 LETTERS FROM COLD NOVEMBER by Miguel Mariagliano; Copegraf SL. 
         POEM COVER OF THE POETRY COMPETITION OF THE BOOK FAIR OF LOS PALACIOS AND VFCA. City Council of Los Palacios; Ediciones Pangea. 
2018 SONOROUS NOTEBOOK by Manuel Busto; Pangea ed. 
2014 EXPERIENCES/ TAUROMAQUIAS / DOLORES PARÍOS. SERIES BY INMA FIERRO. Municipal Art Gallery of Langreo Eduardo Úrculo; Langreo City Hall.

WORKS IN INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS / COMPANIES

Eduardo Úrculo Museum (Asturias)
Gabarrón Foundation (New York)
Zenobia Foundation (Huelva)
Madrid City Council
Los Palacios y Villafranca City Council
Granada City Council  
Huelva City Council  
Associated Architects 
Eurostar Hotels
Comunica Media S.L. 
Varda Goldstein
Michel Gilbert 
Buccara Gmbh and Co.

OTHERS

2022 La Mistela Flamenco Festival Poster; Collaborators: Peña Pozo de las Penas and City Hall. Los Palacios and Villafranca
         Organizer and curator of the I MARISMAFEST. In collaboration with: ANEA, Association, TOMATE BLUES, Los Palacios y Villafranca Town Hall.
         Inclusive Mural IES JOAQUÍN ROMERO MURUBE. In collaboration with: JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA.
2013 Mural CEIP Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. Los Palacios and Villafranca
2008 Los Palacios Fair Poster; Collaboration: City Hall. Los Palacios and Villafranca

The garden is a state of mind

From different places and cultures of the Earth, images of Paradise, crystallized desires 
to us images of Paradise, crystallized desires, 
dreams of continuous orchards or islands of peace.

"Small paradises. The spirit of gardens"
Mario Satz

For Matisse painting a picture meant building with color and line under the maxim of capturing a subjective emotion.  I don't like to distinguish between the feeling that life gives me and the way I translate it into my painting, he said. His trips to Morocco brought him closer to nature and paradisiacal visual impressions. To gardens as a refuge. One of his favorite subjects was the image of the window and, through it, the landscape. In this type of scenes, another element also acquired prominence: the still life on the window sill or on a table. Trays with fruit, pots with plants, vases with flowers. They were her own little paradises. 
Like Matisse, Inma Fierro has her own gardens and in the still lifes that compose them she captures her subjective emotions through color and by means of the type of plant or flower chosen as the protagonist. His still lifes, ambivalent, oscillate between realism and abstraction, between symbolic content and emancipation of meanings. They are vanitas but also locus amoenus. They are memento mori but also private edens brimming with life. 

The works in "The Garden" form a botanical catalog that combines concepts, they are presented as a surface for the projection of the artist's impressions as well as an ideal support for chromatic and luminous experiments. Copying only the objects that make up a still life is not art. The only important thing is to translate the feeling they awaken in oneself, again in the words of the French painter. In these scenes Inma Fierro frees the plants from their model to capture the essential.  She simplifies the strokes in order to transmit vitality. Her scenes, in spite of the flat treatment and without perspective of the space, speak of places to dwell, of places in which to generate roots, of "islands of peace" (as Satz would say) in which to stay and meditate. In "The Inhabited Landscape" the philosopher Carlos Muñoz Gutiérrez states: The garden is a state of mind that we wish to provoke in the garden. Gardens, propitious places to nurture inner gardens of desire, fantasy, reflection, truth or oblivion. Thus, each garden requires its own recollection. Each garden has its own spirit. Thus, the series "The Garden" brings together different gardens and each one is a state of mind. 

Natalia Alonso Arduengo
Art critic and independent curator

Text for "The Garden" exhibition catalogue, 2020

2019 SECOND PRIZE XXXIV National Painting Contest of Bollullos par del Condado, Huelva
2018 FIRST PRIZE Artemisia - Madrid
2014 PRIZE PAINTING PRIZE CITY OF GRANADA honorable mention - Granada
2013 ART NALÓN FIRST PRIZE - Asturias
         ARTISTIC RECOGNITION AWARD Institute of Youth - Andalusian Government
2012 YOUNG PERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD - Los Palacios, Seville
2010 STRIPART First prize - Barcelona