FÉLIX DE LA CONCHA
IOWA
12 de septiembre / 8 de noviembre
To coincide with the publication of Las Meninas from an artificial light. Diary of a copy (Edition Kingdom of Cordelia, 2024) gallery Fernández-Braso presents the exhibition IOWA, the artist Felix de la Concha (Leon, 1962).
Second solo exhibition of Félix de la Concha in the gallery, after White Towers After Fallingwater held in 2022, and after presenting various projects in the latest editions of ARCOmadrid and ARCOlisboa.
If the book recounts the copy process, analysis and dialogue with the original Velazquez in the interior of the study during the time that the artist couldn't paint on the outside, the exhibition shows the series of works painted in Iowa plein air between the years 2009 and 2014.
Armando Montesinos is the specialist in contemporary art, on this occasion made the text that will form part of the digital catalog and role of the current exhibition of Félix de la Concha. In he challenges the perception and conflict environment the term realism and its relationship, differences, and limits between the pictorial language and photography. The uniqueness of the work of Felix, difficult to classify only in this movement, also near to other languages, such as the conceptual and minimal. “In his work investigates the physical reality of the painting at the same time, that designs and deploys the fiction of representation. While, with evidence and awareness of knowledge, simulates that only paints, Shell inhabits that chasm between what is seen and what is represented in which they reside in the mystery and beauty”.
Félix de la Concha studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Madrid until 1985, when it is awarded in the First exhibition of Young Art (Fine Arts Circle of Madrid). In 1989 he received a scholarship from the Academy of Spain in Rome and working in Italy until 1995, the year that he moved to the united States, where she continues to be a large part of his artistic career. His pictorial work part of the natural and focuses on the urban landscape and portrait. In both introduces the temporal concept as the basis both in the process of execution, as in the uptake of the reasons. His works in landscape structure is often in polípticos or series, as One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning (1998-1999) and Fallingwater in Perspective (2005-2006).
His work has been exhibited widely both in Spain and in the united States. The last samples in our country were Las meninas from an artificial light in the Museum Casa Botines, León; Porch in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid and Remains of a shipwreck in the Contemporary Art Center of Burgos (CAB). In 2024, and on behalf of the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida will make a specific project to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the city, and 75 of the museum.
Exposure IOWA formará parte de APERTURA MADRID GALLERY WEEKEND.