Juan Escudero
Bilbao, Spain
5 Works exhibited on Kooness
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Works by Juan Escudero
Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country. 1991. Painting Specialty.
He left painting in 1993 when creating a 3D Animation company. In 1999 he moved to Barcelona. In 2007 he returned to Art through Drawing and in 2017 he dedicates to Engraving. "To draw, I put as a condition that all the marks made are visible and no correction is made. I apply a system in which a first line prefigures the back line and if an irregularity occurs, it is transmitted on the next line. Similar processes occur in nature so that these a posteriori drawings connect with familiar patterns and shapes such as surfaces, tissues, fluids, orography, waves, etc. The basic idea for drawing is not to represent something but to activate a process. It is akin to automatic drawings that we unconsciously make when talking on the phone. A drawing like a musical improvisation, an automatic writing, a clear traffic for the present without correcting anything. I see the matrix once finished with the size of the drawing already invariable as platonically “out of time”. The idea frozen. Then the stamping processes would be the movement, the dynamic time that crosses the plate with its wealth of life."
Solo exhibition:
- 2020 “Discontinuity” Pigment Gallery, Barcelona (Spain).
- 2019 “Surfing time” CIEC Foundation. Betanzos, A Coruña (Spain).
- 2018 “Banc de Temps”, Casa Elizalde, Barcelona (Spain).
- 2017"Timeline", Esther Montoriol Gallery, Barcelona (Spain).
- 2015 SWAB Barcelona. "Drawing applications". Alegría Gallery. Barcelona, Spain).
- 2014 “Desorden”, Alegría Gallery, Madrid (Spain).
- 2013 “Happy Ending”, EATMEAT Raw Gallery, Barcelona (Spain).
- 2011 "Air-conditioned premises", Alegría Gallery, Barcelona (Spain).
- 2008 “Tree jealous of its shadow”, Vell de Formentera Town Hall Hall (Spain).
- 2007 "Floral motifs", NIU espai artistic, Barcelona (Spain).
- 2021 First prize. XIX Deutsche Internationale Grafik-Triennale Frenchen.
- 2020 Second Prize XXI "José Caballero" Engraving Contest. Las Rozas. Madrid.
- 2020 XXIII Award of Fine Arts “SALA EL BROCENSE”. Diputación prov. de Cáceres.
- 2020 Biennial Pilar Juncosa Edition Award. Fundació Miró Mallorca.
- 2020 First Award “VI OnPaperConquest” 6th Annual 'On Paper' International Printmaking Award.
- 2019 First Award Etching Category Joan Vilanova. Manresa.
- 2019 First Award “X Premio Atlante de Grabado”. Museo del Grabado, Artes, A Coruña.
- 2019 First Award “V certamen de Grabado DCCOP”. Málaga.
- 2019 Adquisition Price “V Certamen de Grabado ALFARA GRÁFICA”. Oviedo.
- 2019 Hideki Kimura Jurors’ Prize. “Awagami International Mini-Print Exhibition”.
- 2018 Award OPENPORTFOLIO. FIG Bilbao.
- 2011 First Award en el 49º Concurso Internacional de Dibujo Ynglada-Guillot.