Julio Vaquero
25 Apr - 02 Jun 2012
© Julio Vaquero
"LARGAS SOMBRAS EN LA PARED DE ORO", 2011
Lápiz graso y aguada sobre papel vegetal. 200 x 330 cm
"LARGAS SOMBRAS EN LA PARED DE ORO", 2011
Lápiz graso y aguada sobre papel vegetal. 200 x 330 cm
JULIO VAQUERO
EL final de las apariencias
25 April – 2 June 2012
Julio Vaquero (Barcelona 1958) presents his first solo show at the Fucares gallery in Madrid, with an exhibition of drawings and sculpture produced in the past tree years.
The End of Appearances
This is the most ambitious project the artist has ever developed and it spans a 5-year creative period that originated in a magnificent installation that was shown at the Espai Anella exhibition space at the Arts Santa Mònica centre in 2011. The drawings presented are based on this installation and with it they form a complete and coherent whole. Vaquero has always painted from reality but for the first time the reality from which he is working is also his work, in other words, the installation. Being able to enjoy his drawing, and at the same time the installation in which it originates, is an exceptional opportunity.
The exhibition includes a series of works produced in oil pencil and wash on onionskin paper, in medium and large format, in which this artist's skill and artistic quality is appreciable. His works are based on nature studies and he is concerned with the contemplation of form, suspended halfway between workshop sketches and finished drawings. To highlight this idea, they are executed with a certain lightness, even in the parts that are apparently more finished. The real objects, which were originally the models of his work, have been incorporated into the creation of an installation of sculptures that he has produced with dry paint, fiberglass and tar. These virtual objects also appear in his drawings, altering the hierarchy of the composition and confering on the space a certain amount of ambiguity.
In his work, two groups can be distinguished: one in which the study of light brings us toward the optical reality and another in which the forms of the objects arranged in a somewhat disorderly fashion emphasize the duality between the flat space and the three dimensional space. This transference between the virtual and the real provides us with a new notion of realism in his works, which lead the eye of the beholder to the state that precedes vision, first capturing the atmosphere and then discovering the detail in the form.
Julio Vaquero describes the creative process of The End of Appearances:
"In the year 2005, after a long period of study drawing and painting specific spaces, I began to wonder about the need for representation. In an environment in which image invades everything, I needed to find formulas that exceeded the traditional way of looking at nature as a model and converted it into a realm for experimentation.
I began to alter the way I represented space and also the objects themselves, making them more abstract and independent. At that time I painted La noche de los animales eléctricos (The Night of Electric Animals)-in the Copisa Collection-a composition in which a set of furniture and technological objects in an unspecified space appear bathed in electrical light, which grants them a vibrance from which symbols and letters emanate"1.
Julio Vaquero (Barcelona, 1958)
Julio Vaquero (Barcelona, 1958) has been holding painting and drawing exhibitions since the year 1987. His works have been included in group shows such as "Between Heaven and Earth. New classical movements in the art of today", at the Museum of Modern Art of Oostende, Belgium; "El Realisme a Catalunya" at the Centre d'art Santa Mónica, Barcelona; "Mimesis et inventio" and "Im licht der wirklichkeit", both at the Panorama Museum de Bad Frankenhausen. In 2003 the Museum of Painting of Montserrat featured his work in the solo show "Realitats il.luminades". Vaquero has had two drawing exhibitions at the Trama Gallery, in Madrid in 2004 and in Barcelona in 2005.
He has regularly been invited to give conferences in different centres and universities about his work as a painter and about realist and figurative painting. He has participated as jury member of painting competitions. He has also participated in radio and television programs, most recently as an expert on the tve2 program "La mita invisible" about the work of Antonio López García.
He currently combines his work as a painter with the position of Art Director of the Sorigué Foundation, with which he has been collaborating for more than ten years to create a contemporary art collection of more than 400 works.
Work in museums and collections
Museo del Fútbol Club Barcelona.
Museo de Pintura de Valdepeñas.
Museo Art 2000. Fundación Privada Vilacasas. Girona.
Colección Testimonio. La Caixa, Barcelona.
Colección Editorial Planeta. Barcelona.
Colección Hesperia. Madrid.
Colección Luis Infante. Madrid.
Cortes Regionales de Castilla La Mancha. Toledo.
Fundación Sorigué. Lerida.
Fundación Lilly. Madrid.
Colección Ernesto Ventós. Barcelona.
EL final de las apariencias
25 April – 2 June 2012
Julio Vaquero (Barcelona 1958) presents his first solo show at the Fucares gallery in Madrid, with an exhibition of drawings and sculpture produced in the past tree years.
The End of Appearances
This is the most ambitious project the artist has ever developed and it spans a 5-year creative period that originated in a magnificent installation that was shown at the Espai Anella exhibition space at the Arts Santa Mònica centre in 2011. The drawings presented are based on this installation and with it they form a complete and coherent whole. Vaquero has always painted from reality but for the first time the reality from which he is working is also his work, in other words, the installation. Being able to enjoy his drawing, and at the same time the installation in which it originates, is an exceptional opportunity.
The exhibition includes a series of works produced in oil pencil and wash on onionskin paper, in medium and large format, in which this artist's skill and artistic quality is appreciable. His works are based on nature studies and he is concerned with the contemplation of form, suspended halfway between workshop sketches and finished drawings. To highlight this idea, they are executed with a certain lightness, even in the parts that are apparently more finished. The real objects, which were originally the models of his work, have been incorporated into the creation of an installation of sculptures that he has produced with dry paint, fiberglass and tar. These virtual objects also appear in his drawings, altering the hierarchy of the composition and confering on the space a certain amount of ambiguity.
In his work, two groups can be distinguished: one in which the study of light brings us toward the optical reality and another in which the forms of the objects arranged in a somewhat disorderly fashion emphasize the duality between the flat space and the three dimensional space. This transference between the virtual and the real provides us with a new notion of realism in his works, which lead the eye of the beholder to the state that precedes vision, first capturing the atmosphere and then discovering the detail in the form.
Julio Vaquero describes the creative process of The End of Appearances:
"In the year 2005, after a long period of study drawing and painting specific spaces, I began to wonder about the need for representation. In an environment in which image invades everything, I needed to find formulas that exceeded the traditional way of looking at nature as a model and converted it into a realm for experimentation.
I began to alter the way I represented space and also the objects themselves, making them more abstract and independent. At that time I painted La noche de los animales eléctricos (The Night of Electric Animals)-in the Copisa Collection-a composition in which a set of furniture and technological objects in an unspecified space appear bathed in electrical light, which grants them a vibrance from which symbols and letters emanate"1.
Julio Vaquero (Barcelona, 1958)
Julio Vaquero (Barcelona, 1958) has been holding painting and drawing exhibitions since the year 1987. His works have been included in group shows such as "Between Heaven and Earth. New classical movements in the art of today", at the Museum of Modern Art of Oostende, Belgium; "El Realisme a Catalunya" at the Centre d'art Santa Mónica, Barcelona; "Mimesis et inventio" and "Im licht der wirklichkeit", both at the Panorama Museum de Bad Frankenhausen. In 2003 the Museum of Painting of Montserrat featured his work in the solo show "Realitats il.luminades". Vaquero has had two drawing exhibitions at the Trama Gallery, in Madrid in 2004 and in Barcelona in 2005.
He has regularly been invited to give conferences in different centres and universities about his work as a painter and about realist and figurative painting. He has participated as jury member of painting competitions. He has also participated in radio and television programs, most recently as an expert on the tve2 program "La mita invisible" about the work of Antonio López García.
He currently combines his work as a painter with the position of Art Director of the Sorigué Foundation, with which he has been collaborating for more than ten years to create a contemporary art collection of more than 400 works.
Work in museums and collections
Museo del Fútbol Club Barcelona.
Museo de Pintura de Valdepeñas.
Museo Art 2000. Fundación Privada Vilacasas. Girona.
Colección Testimonio. La Caixa, Barcelona.
Colección Editorial Planeta. Barcelona.
Colección Hesperia. Madrid.
Colección Luis Infante. Madrid.
Cortes Regionales de Castilla La Mancha. Toledo.
Fundación Sorigué. Lerida.
Fundación Lilly. Madrid.
Colección Ernesto Ventós. Barcelona.