Javier Infantes

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PAINTINGS - PINTURAS / DIGITAL ART - ARTE DIGITAL
DRAWINGS - DIBUJOS / WORKS IN MASS MEDIA - PUBLICACIONES
RESUME - CURRICULUM / BIO - BIOGRAFIA / NOTEBOOK - CUADERNO DE IDEAS

VISIT STOA GALLERY, ESTEPONA (SPAIN)

VISIT PNP Craftsmen (Painting, murals)

RESUME / CURRICULUM

2008-10-01T03:29:00.000-07:00

Estepona, Malaga (Spain)

jinfant3@hotmail.com

http://www.javierinfantes.blogspot.com/

Education

University of Seville. University of Madrid, Spain

M.F.A. Painting, 1996

Relevant Skills

• Certified in Multimedia Design. Malaga, Spain.

• He studied photography. Seville and Madrid, Spain

Experience

• ABC Newspaper. Madrid, Spain
Illustrator, 1997-1999
(Illustrating daily news and articles in most of the sections of the Newspaper)

• Freelance illustrator (during the last 13 years).

Hi published his works in:

Spanish magazines

El Viejo Topo, Escribir y Publicar (Barcelona)

Calviva , Claridad, Claves de Razon Practica (Madrid)

Extramuros (Granada)

Revistart (Barcelona)

In the last few years Javier Infantes has illustrated texts and articles of illustrious public figures as importants as Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (Spanish Prime Minister), Noam Chomsky ( linguist, philosopher, political activist), among others.

• Teacher of painting and photography. Malaga, Spain.

• Decorative painter, (murals). Andalusia, Spain.

Exhibitions:

Solo:

-Exhibitions and Congresses Palace of Estepona. Malaga, Spain. 2006.

-Miramar Gallery. Estepona, Malaga. Spain. 1995.

-Miramar Gallery. Estepona, Malaga. Spain. 1993.

-Cultural Center of Estepona, Malaga. Spain, 1993.

-Uruguay Pavillion. Seville, 1992.

Group Show:

-StoaGallery. "In the meeting point". Estepona, Malaga. Spain 2009.

-Congresses Palace Marbella. International Art Fair , Malaga. Spain, 2009.

-Stoagallery. Estepona, Malaga. Spain 2009.

-Stoagallery. Estepona, Malaga. Spain. 2008.

-Stoagallery. Estepona, Malaga. Spain. 2007.

-Congresses Palace Marbella. International Art Fair , Malaga. Spain, 2007.

-Victor’s Gallery. Marbella, Malaga. Spain, 2005

-“Velazanetti” Painting Prize. Burgos, Spain. 2000

- European Photography Prize. Madrid, Spain. 1997.

-Complutense University. Fine Arts Exhibition Hall. . Madrid, 1996.

-Virgin Megastore. Seville, 1994

-Uruguay Pavillion. Seville, 1993.

(STATEMENT) NOTEBOOK / CUADERNO DE IDEAS

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Statement

I am very interested in the structure of the brain and how does it work, (how do we think, memorize, how do we have emotions, feelings or even where the intelligence comes from…) Memories, thoughts, feelings… that is what we are as human beings.
I’m keen on, some how, the creation of a link between art and science presenting images on the beauty of the structure of the brain. Pictures as neuronal landscapes, or even as a presentation on the construction of our memories and how they are fixed into the brain, from a personal and artistic point of view.
Enthralled by the mysterious worlds that take place in the architecture of the brain, of the cerebellum… The beauty of the plasticity and the micro-organization of the nervous system like a map or a forest of the paths that follow the nerve impulses across neuronal connections. Trying to unravel some of brain hidden mysteries. One of the questions is how the neuronal woods that constitutes our brain is organized and how those connections can generate the amazing complexity of a human being.
Electro-chemicals impulses, neuronal connections… but at the end just talking about ourselves, about the way we think, we feel and we store our memories to build up the world we think we are living in.

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Javier Infantes understands creativity as a language of experimentation, as a method of investigation and acquisition of knowledge, all of this based on the freedom to create. He is interested in traveling towards our inner selves, towards what we are: thought, emotion, feeling memory…

Moreover, he is attracted by our ability to generate intelligence, sensations, recollections…

“Perhaps we are what we remember…” He says.

The recollections make us who we are.

He sees art as a vehicle of knowledge and not a mere representation of what surrounds us.

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Conchi Alvarez (Gallerist, Art Historian) www.stoagallery.com

Javier's work belongs to the most transcendent art. He makes a deep work of synthesis to reach the pure concept, he researches about the essences of the deepest thoughts, and he also tracks in the philosophical approaches of existence, from the authenticity of an infinite and unfathomable search. Javier is allowed to play with different techniques, applied on wood or canvas, he develops a very personal informalist style, which dominates the matter ("Interior and Gold" and "implosion "), along with suggestive pieces of black background, which he calls "fragments- remembrance" in the "Landscape of Memory", or rationalist works as the two small geometric diptychs of the series "Labyrinth".

La obra de Javier pertenece al arte más trascendente. Realiza una profunda labor de síntesis hasta llegar al concepto puro, investiga acerca de las esencias de los pensamientos más profundos, rastrea en los planteamientos filosóficos de la existencia, desde la autenticidad de una búsqueda infinita e insondable. A la hora de la plasmación práctica, se permite jugar con diversas técnicas, aplicadas sobre tabla o lienzo, bien en trabajos de adscripción informalista muy personal, en las que predomina lo matérico (“Interior y Oro” e “Implosión”), junto a sugerentes piezas de fondo negro, a las que el autor llama “fragmentos-recuerdo” dentro del “Paisaje de la Memoria”, o bien obras racionalistas como los dos pequeños dípticos de juegos geométricos de la serie "Laberinto".

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The Air Like Support. To do way planning.

Towards a creation based on the constant experimentation, to trust art as a vehicle of knowledge and not only as a mere representation of what surrounds us. To investigate. To present a new world drawing. Art like that one that can heal us of life. To have the hope that art some day could manage to cure to each one of us, if it was possible.
To breathe, undoubtedly, (more than once and deeply), before taking any decision. We commit the same mistakes because we do not breathe or because we do not know how to do it correctly. To learn to breathe to be able to draw. To be fed by the air.
To create with the slight thing and in the emptiness. The noise is deafening and confuses us. To flee of the hurry that disturbs us.

His works are exposed nowadays in Stoa gallery http://www.stoagallery.com/
Estepona, Costa del Sol. Spain.

El Aire Como Soporte. Hacer camino trazando.

Hacia una creacion basada en la experimentacion continua, confiar en que el arte sea un vehiculo de conocimiento y no una mera representacion de lo que nos rodea. Indagar. Presentar un nuevo mundo dibujando. Arte como aquello que nos cura de la vida. Tener la esperanza de que el arte algun dia pueda llegar a sanarnos a cada uno de nosotros, si es que esto fuera posible.
Respirar, sin duda, (mas de una vez y profundamente), antes de tomar cualquier decision. Caemos en los mismos errores porque no respiramos o porque no sabemos como hacerlo correctamente. Aprender a respirar para saber dibujar. El aire alimento.
Crear con lo leve y en el vacio. El ruido es ensordecedor y nos confunde. Huir de la prisa que nos turba.

Su obra se encuentra actualmente expuesta en Stoa gallery http://www.stoagallery.com/
galería situada en la ciudad de Estepona, en la Costa del Sol.

PAINTINGS / PINTURAS

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Paintings I \ Pinturas I

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Paintings II \ Pinturas II

Paintings III / Pinturas III

WORKS PUBLISHED IN MASS MEDIA

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Works published in Calviva Magazine (Madrid). Home

Works published in Claves de Razon Practica Magazine #141 (Madrid)

Works published in Claves de Razon Practica Magazine #161 (Madrid)

This work above was published to illustrate an interview with Mr. Rodriguez Zapatero, the President of the Spanish Goverment.

Imagen que ilustra
la entrevista a D. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Works published in Claves de Razon Practica Magazine #165 (Madrid)

Works published in Claves de Razon Practica Magazine #146 (Madrid)

Works published in Claves de Razón Práctica Magazine # 158 (Madrid)

Works published in Claves de Razón Práctica Magazine # 194 (Madrid)

Works published in Claridad Magazine (Madrid)

Works published in El Viejo Topo Magazine (Barcelona)

Revistart, Barcelona

DeLibros, Madrid

BIO-BIOGRAFIA

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Artist born in Estepona (Spain) in 1973. He studied Fine Arts in Madrid, at the Complutense University (1991-1996). Since the nineties he has published his works in various media (Abc newspaper, El Viejo Topo, Claridad, Calviva, Extramuros, Escribir y Publicar, Revistart.

Collaborates at present with the magazine Claves de Razon Practica directed by Javier Pradera and Fernando Savater. He illustrated texts of Noam Chomsky, Stephen Jay Gould, Fernando Reinares, Ilia Galan, Julian Santamaria among other personalities. In addition, his work appeared illustrating the interview with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, published in the number 161 of the magazine Claves de Razon Practica.
E-mail: jinfant3@hotmail.com

ABC Newspaper (Madrid). Selected Works.

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Murals and Decorative Painting

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Graphic Design

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DRAWINGS - DIBUJOS

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Drawings

(Last works)

Drawings I / Dibujos I

Drawings II / Dibujos II

DIGITAL ART / ARTE DIGITAL

2007-01-23T11:49:00.000-08:00

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