Javier Valverde
Málaga, 1991
Holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the University of Malaga (2013), where he also completed a Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Artistic Production (2015). He is currently working on his doctorate, also at UMA. He received the Creadores La Térmica scholarship (Malaga, 2015), an Iniciarte scholarship (Junta de Andalucía, 2013-14) and the UMA Scholarship for the Real Academia de España en Roma (2013).
His first individual exhibition, Maryon Park, took place in 2015 at the Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Malaga. His second individual exhibition was in 2017 Galería JM of Malaga, and titled Oleoramas del Parque del Oeste. He was selected to take part in various competitions and joint exhibitions, the MálagaCrea Visual Arts Contest CAC Málaga, (2016 and 2014, awarded Honorary Mention both years, 2015 and 2013), III Salón de las Vanidades, Palacio Ducal de El Carpio, Córdoba (2015) awarded Honorary Mention, Causa o pretexto (El Palmeral Iniciarte Exhibition Room, Malaga (2014), Mamá, Exhibition Room Cruzcampo Foundation, Malaga (2014), the VII and VI University of Malaga Painting Prize UMA Rectorate Exhibition Room, Malaga, (2013, awarded 2nd Prize that year and in 2012) and the III International Exhibition of University Art IKAS ART, Bilbao,(2011), among others.
Actividades
Huelva. From 09 Apr to 20 May 2021
We begin with the initial premise under which two elements – the path and the journey – have been present in all the previous projects, creating a series of works defined by a cross between painting and cinema, or rather a hybridisation of both media, with the latter arising from the discipline of painting in which it is firmly rooted.
Sevilla. From 27 Nov to 21 Mar 2021
We begin with the initial premise under which two elements – the path and the journey – have been present in all the previous projects, creating a series of works defined by a cross between painting and cinema, or rather a hybridisation of both media, with the latter arising from the discipline of painting in which it is firmly rooted.
Málaga. From 11 Dec to 15 Feb 2015
On the basis of a formal heterogeneity and a thematic multiplicity framed in daily life, the artists present a series of pieces whose common point is the conflict between the accuracy of representation as an independent entity and the unbreakable symbolic reference to that referenced.
