TIAC -ICCI Shanghai Residency Selected Artists
Juan olivares
JUAN OLIVARES (Born in Catarroja 1973) is a Spanish artist who focuses his work on painting. Graduated in Fine Arts in 1997 from the Faculty of San Carlos of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, makes his final year in Brussels Nationale Superieure des Arts École de la Cambre Visuels.
In 2002 the Ministry of Culture Scholarship grants the College of Visual Arts in Spain Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris. Two years later in 2004 also is awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Grant Fine Arts Academy in Rome, a city that marks deeply and constantly traveling.
In 2007 he continued his training at The Cooper Union School of Art in New York, a city that takes its study during 2007 and 2008.
All his work forms a poetic tissue that questions the formal limits of painting and its relationship to the space it inhabits.
Support surface and space continuous review.
The idea of transience, over time, the emotional trail left us some experiences, uncertainty, chance and discovery are present in all his works. In a sentence: "He loves emotion that corrects the rule”.
In his twenty-year career he has made more than twenty solo exhibitions in galleries of contemporary art. He has participated in various international exhibitions, as well as in international fairs. His works are in private collections and institutions.