MIGUEL NÚÑEZ TORRE, SAN ROQUE (CADIZ) 1991.
STATMENT
Archaeology, as well as being the science that interprets history through its heritage legacy, has a poetic reading, insofar as the pieces that reach us today are incomplete, due to fracture or because they are unfinished. This has a great power of evocation, as in many cases we do not have sufficient documentary sources to know their original appearance.
Miguel Núñez bases his work on the contemplation of the environment and the embrace of tradition, giving rise to representations of classical sculptures and other archaeological elements in the natural environment. Dramatised compositions where the archaeological manifests personal concerns and the landscape is understood as something to be lived and not to be seen.
Abstraction is also very present in his work, not in a visible way but in a conceptual way during the process, since abstract painting, like all constructed things, is subject to a well-defined limitation. In his case that limitation is his own experience with painting. His interest in classical sculpture is due to the fact that they determined human representation at the most dignified level. Therefore, when he deals with concrete objects, they must possess an abstract dignity that he only finds in an adequate form in antiquity.
In his use of metaphor, the artist is drawn to Paul Ricoeur’s definition of metaphor as that rhetorical process by which discourse releases the power of certain fictions to rewrite reality.
It is a matter of experimenting and slowly threading together multiple pictorial languages, understanding painting as the dynamic obtaining of solutions that end up configuring a creative itinerary. This is the reason for the development of a technique that is in accordance with one’s own temperament so that it allows one to express what one wants to express.
EDUCATION
PhD in Art and Heritage. Santa Isabel de Hungría University, Seville.
Master’s Degree in Artistic Production. Polytechnic University of Valencia. 2015 – 2016.
Degree in Fine Arts. Santa Isabel de Hungría University, Seville. 2010 – 2014
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2018. Kind of wood. Pintura. Galería Antoni Pinyol, Reus (Tarragona)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021. My house. Painting. Espacio Mados, Madrid.
2020. Indoor Plants. Painting. La Capilla Gallery (University of Granada), Granada.
2020. Heart. Painting. Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville.
2019. A day is a day. Painting. Álvaro Alcázar Gallery, Madrid.
2019. A Flote. Painting. College of Architects of Seville, Seville.
2019. 72 hours. Painting. Zunino Gallery, Seville.
2019. Becoming earth. Painting. La Vicaria Gallery, Puente de Genave (Jaén).
2019. Everything Fits. Painting. Zunino Gallery, Seville.
2018.The infinite party. Painting. ELBUTRÓN, Seville.
2018. Invaliden 1 and his friends. Painting. Sala La Vicaria, Puente de Genave (Jaén).
2018. XXXIX National Contemporary Art Contest “City of Utrera”. Pintur4a. Seville.
2018. Invaliden 1 and his friends. Painting. La Vicaria Gallery, Puente de Genave (Jaén).
2018. Neighbours IV. Painting. CAC Collection, Malaga.
2017.SOLI DOWN 2017. (exhibition-auction). Painting. ELBUTRÓN, Seville.
2017. Ibercaja Young Painting Prize. Painting. Ibercaja Patio de la Infanta Hall. Zaragoza.
2017. Variable wind. Painting. Ortega Brú Gallery. San Roque (Cádiz).
2017. Art Conference “The Invaded City”. Painting. House of Culture. Gillena (Seville).
2017. 25th Telax Award. Painting. Antoni Pinyol Gallery. Reus (Tarragona).
2017. CALL_17. Painting. Gallery A del Arte. Zaragoza.
2017. VII Biennial Prize of Painting Torres García-Ciutat de Mataró. Painting. Iluro Foundation Athenaeum. Mataró (Barcelona).
2016. 100 x 100 UTOPIA. Painting. Gallery A del Arte. Zaragoza.
2016. XXV Biennial of Painting Vila de Paterna. Painting. Sala Municipal d’Exposicions del Gran Teatre Antonio Ferrandis, Paterna (Valencia).
2016. A SUMMER STORY. Painting. Espai d’Art Ajuntament de Benidorm, (Alicante).
2016. SOLI DOWN (exhibition-auction). Painting. ELBUTRÓN, Seville.
2016. PAM! 16. Painting. UPV, Valencia.
2015. III Christmas Group Show. Painting. ELBUTRÓN, Seville.
2015. Plural Unique 2. Painting. NEXT Gallery, Piacenza, Italy.
AWARDS
2018. Acquisition Prize. XXXIX National Contemporary Art Competition “City of Utrera”. Seville.
2017. Finalist in the Ibercaja Young Painting Prize. Ibercaja Social Work. Zaragoza.
2017. 25th Telax Award. Antoni Pinyol Gallery. Reus (Tarragona).
2017. Finalist CALL_17. Gallery A del Arte. Zaragoza.
2017. Finalist in VII Biennial Prize of Painting Torres García-Ciutat de Mataró. Mataró (Barcelona)