Cristina Almodovar

Full and empty

CRISTINA ALMODOVAR. FULL AND EMPTY

The gallery Fernández-Braso is pleased to present the first exhibition of the artist Cristina Almodovar (Madrid, 1970). The shows will be part of Opening 2023

 Under the title of Full and empty the works of Almodóvar will be distributed for the various spaces of the gallery, focusing on the importance that the artist gives to the (inter) relationship and a dialogue between the art object and the place it occupies. The gallery will become, in this way, in the territory, in a fertile land, in the stronghold of remains and traces, in the space that opens up to the empty, and it becomes a screen for the projection of shadows. The sculptures, synthesis and abstraction of forms that refer to a world that is organic, natural, vegetal, mineral - is shown in its dual nature, material and immaterial, delicate and robust, beautiful, and tragic, object and idea. Almodóvar is present in each of the works. His humanity. His body and his hands working the iron. The artistic object, material and corporeal, it refers to the basic fundamentals of art. To the artist creator, metamorphosed in sculpture, generating, in turn, by the poetic language, of phenomena, concerns, ideas, and fears are proper to human nature.

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Biography

C R I S T I N A L M O D O V A R

Madrid, 1970

 

Training

 1994

Bachelor of Fine Arts. Specialty of Sculpture. Complutense university of Madrid.

Honorable mention in the National Awards of Bachelor's degree.

1995

A fellow of the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid.

Erasmus scholarship at the Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo, Norway.

 Solo exhibitions 

2000

Studio Gallery In Solana, Madrid.

2001

Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid.

Museum of los Angeles, Turégano.

2004

Change of environment”. Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid.

2005

Sequences air”. Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid.

2007

Gallery Ar+51, Toledo.

2008

Architecture woven”. Installation. Gallery Alfara, Oviedo.

Lightness”. Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid.

2009

Invisible”. Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid.

2010

Architecture, knit – Invisible”. Gallery Nuevoarte, Seville.

2011

Tour”. Space Pepe Pisa, Madrid.

Cycles”. Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid.

2012

Artmadrid. One Project. “Disintegration”. Gallery Rina Bouwen.

Settlements”. SET ESPAI D'ART. Jávea. Alicante.

2013

Fragile.” Gallery Rina Bouwen. Madrid

2014

Fragile.” SET ESPAI D'ART. Festival Looks Women. Valencia

2016

Transformations platonic” AP Gallery. Riaza, Segovia.

Rationality organic” Fundació Setba, Barcelona

Lines platonic” SET ESPAI D'ART. Jávea. Alicante 

2017

Artist of the month. Astarte Artistic Initiatives. Madrid.

2018

SETUP Artfair. Invited Artist. Bologna, Italy. Gallery SET ESPAI DART.

Proliferations” (Curator: Silvia Tena). SET ESPAI D'ART. Valencia.

2019

Drawing the word”. Museo Lázaro Galdiano. Madrid

2020

Interrupts”. Space Taken. Madrid

2021

Bring order to the chaos”. Furious Gallery. Madrid

2022

The Nature of the Landscape”. Space The Madame. Madrid

Limits”. Cristina Enea Foundation. San Sebastian

“The whisper of petals”. Gallery Gärna. Madrid

2023

ARCOmadrid. Gallery Fernández-Braso. Madrid

ARCOlisboa. Gallery Fernández-Braso. Lisbon

“Full and empty”. Gallery Fernandez-Braso. Madrid

Group exhibitions 

2005

Royal Mirage Resort Dubai. The United Arab Emirates.

2007

Stamp. Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid

2008

The house within the house.” Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid.

FIBRES 08 – 09”. Museo del Traje, Madrid.

Fundación Caja Madrid. Aranjuez and Zaragoza.

2009

Stamp. Gallery Rina Bouwen, Madrid.

2010

Galería Rayuela, Madrid.

Galeria Ansorena, Madrid

2011

Atlantic Space. Vigo. Gallery Rina Bouwen.

Mostra Premio Internazionale Francesco Messina. Casalbeltrame. Italy.

2012

Rarity Gallery. Summer Show. Mykonos. Greece.

2013

Gallery Alicia Winters. Arnhem, The Netherlands

Stamp. SET ESPAI D'ART. Madrid

CasaArte. SET ESPAI D'ART. Madrid

Collective exhibition SET ESPAI D'ART. Jávea, Alicante

2014

XII Biennale d sculpture of Meliana, Meliana, Valencia

Paints. SET ESPAI D'ART. London

Collective exhibition SET ESPAI D'ART. Jávea, Alicante

Stamp. SET ESPAI D'ART. Madrid

Context Art Miami. SET ESPAI D'ART. Miami

2015

Masters of the art. Reales Atarazanas. Valencia

Beyond the constructive spirit. Sculpture. SET ESPAI D'ART. Valencia

Arts Libris. SET ESPAI D'ART. Barcelona

IV exhibition of Contemporary Art from Morocco. Casablanca.

Context Art Miami. SET ESPAI D'ART. Miami

2016

Point Broken. Museum Jorge Rando. Malaga.

Stamp. SET ESPAI D'ART. Madird.

Context Art Miami. SET ESPAI D'ART. Miami.

2017

Stamp. SET ESPAI D'ART. Madrid

Natura. Fundació Setba. Barcelona

Drawing Room. SET ESPAI D'ART. Madrid

Collection Bassat Contemporary Art. Center Cogresos and Exhibitions. Room Canvas North. Ávila.

2018

Stamp. SET ESPAI DART. Madrid

Justmad. AP Gallery, Madrid

SCULTO. Logroño, La Rioja. Astarte Artistic Initiatives.

2019

Paper Valencia. Salon of Art and Poetry. SET ESPAI DART

VOLTA15. SET ESPAI DART. Basel, Switzerland.

Tempus Quietare”. Voluntat contemplative and art. Acquisition Prize Collection Cañada Blanch. Commissioner: Ricard Wild. Centre Cultural La Nau, Valencia.

Imago Vocis. Echo of the Visible”. Commissioners: Ada Sbriccoli and Arola Valls. Center of the Carmen of Contemporary Culture. Valencia

2021

VULNERABLE.” Space Or-Lumen, Madrid

STAMP. Space Taken. Madrid

STAMP. Furious Gallery

2022

Sculpture”. Ansorena Gallery. Madrid

Work in collections

Foundation The Secret of Philanthropy

Foundation Hortensia Herrero

Collection By Gandia Blasco

Collection DKV

New Collection Of Pilar Citoler

Collection Smell of visual

Collection Bassat

Box of Castilla-La Mancha.

Junta de comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha.

BMW

Artphilein Foundation. Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

Materima, Casalbeltrame. Italy.

Collection Principe d ' Aremberg

University of Quotes

Collection Bed Sun

Collection John Entrecanales

 Publications

1995

MEETING” next to Françoise Mènard. Published by the Casa de Velázquez.  

2001

Birds”. Published by the Gallery Rina Bouwen. Madrid .

Cristina Almodovar. Published by the Museum of the Angels.

2004 

Change of environment”. Published by the Gallery Rina Bouwen.

2005 

Sequences air”. Pubicado by the Gallery Rina Bouwen.

2008

Fibers 08-09”. Published by the Fundación Caja Madrid.

Lightness”. Published by the Gallery Rina Bouwen.

2010

The inspiration and the artist.” Published by  BMW.

2011

Cycles”.Published by the  Gallery Rina Bouwen.  

Premio Internazionale Giovane Scultura. Published by the Fundación Francesco Messina. Texts of Lorena Corral.

2013

Within the walls”. Published by the Gallery Alicia Winters, Arnhem, the Netherlands.

2014 

Cristina Almodovar. Feeling the depth of the Nature”. Published by the Gallery SET ESPAI DART.

2015 

Masters of the art.” Reales Atarazanas, Valencia. Published by the Generalitat Valenciana.

2016

Cristina Almodovar. Rationality organic”. Published by the Foundation SETBA. Barcelona.Text DanielGiralt-Miracle

Images for front cover of the  magazine INSULA, no. 798, 813, 838. Published by Group Espasa.

2017

Collection Bassat. Exhibition Palace of Congresses of Avila. Published by the Junta de Castilla y León.

2018 

PAPERWORK. Magazine for Contemporary Drawing, published by the Fair Drawing Room.

Proliferations”. Published by the Gallery SET ESPAI DART. Text by Silvia Tena.

THE plastic as a work of art”. Article of Silvia Torres. The World, 14 October

2019

Tempus Quietare. Will contemplative and art”. Published by the Collection Cañada Blanch. Commissioner: Ricard Wild.

Imago Vocis. Echo of the Visible” Commissioners: Ada Sbriccoli and Arola Valls. Published by the Centro del Carmen. Valencia.  

Drawing the word”. Book-object. Cristina Almodovar and Juan Fernández-Aceytuno. Published by the publishing house Bed Sun.

2020

My work favorite”. Article Semiramis Gonzalez for the magazine “Discover the art” March 2020

The charm simple”, with text by Christian Bobin. Published by the publishing house Bed Sun.

Beauty in the face of adversity”. Cristina Almodovar. Article written for Harper's Bazaar Spain. May 2020

2021

The vulnerability in the art. A spiritual journey”. Bert Daelemans. Edited by PPC.

Contemporary artists of Madrid”. Digital publication of Shell Butler and Mareta Espinosa.

Front and back covers of the special issue of the 75th Anniversary of the magazine Insula, edited by Group Espasa.

2022

The sculpture's organic state”. Article of Fatima Poppe published in The objective.

Sculpture”. Catalogue published by the Gallery Ansorena.

Art, sustainability, and education.” Collaboration in a book edited by the Faculty of education of the Valencian Community

Workshops. Conference attendance

The artist of the month”. Talk weekly organized by the Gallery of Astarte. 2017

Drawing the word”. Presentation in dialogue with Juan Fernández-Aceytuno, and Olga Basin in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano. 2019

Presentation of the book “The vulnerability in art” by Bert Daelemans, in dialogue with Peter Millet, theologian. Space Volume. Madrid 2021

The objetualización the landscape.” Presentation at the conference on art and sustainability of the Master of Sculpture. Faculty of Fine Arts. Universidad Complutense. 2021

I Conference of sustainable culture. Discussion table next to Evelio Acevedo, and Manuel Borja-Villel, moderated by Jaime de los Santos. Teatro Real. 2022

Awards

Premio Internazionale Giovane Scultura. Fondazione Francesco Messina. Casalbetrame. Italy

Award SETUP CONNECTION. Bologna. Italy.

Award Caixa Popular the Best Exhibition Open Valencia 2018

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Video presentation

Catalog

Selection of Work