Iker Serrano
22 Jul - 02 Sep 2014
IKER SERRANO
El Guardián Del Bosque
22 July - 2 September 2014
THE JOURNEY What do we call the journey?
- The journey introduces 3 readings, intrinsic to each other:
- The main one: that which accommodates the pictorial act as a journey.
- The representative one: the journey as useful for pictorial representation.
- The emotive one: The sum of the above for the formation of the individual.
Iker Serrano
Sala Rekalde presents an exhibition by Iker Serrano (Pamplona-Iruña, 1982), included in the barriek 2014 programme which puts on show the works of artists who have been awarded Becas de Creación Artística from the Regional Council of Bizkaia.
The work on show bearing the title El Guardián del Bosque (The guardian of the Forest) forms part of a more extensive project called ISOLARIOS, which brings together part of his production from 2010-2014. ISOLARIOS was published in printed format under the imprint Cuadernos de Utopia in April 2014. This project was funded by the Basque Government’s Department of Culture.
ISOLARIOS, and the sub-projects that comprise it, are the aesthetic result of the author’s PhD, Una mirada sobre el Viaje en la plástica, a través del fenómeno de la narrativa pictórica.
El Guardián del Bosque is the consequence of the character or mask with which the character – traveller – painter fuses after going through the experience of the journey to the painting. It is one of the specificities that determine it. If the traveller has lived in different and highly diverse scenarios and biospheres, if the painter has known his experiences and qualities with different animals, and shares this, it is natural to think that to preserve these entities is a rational consequence. In the same way, to present a figure like the Guardian of the Forest is to stress the importance of nature and those who constitute it.
THE ARTIST www.ikerserrano.com
Iker Serrano (Pamplona 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. A Fine Arts graduate from the University of the Basque Country EHU-UPV, he is currently working on his PhD, Una mirada sobre el Viaje en la plástica, dentro del fenómeno de la narrativa pictórica, under the direction of Doctors Jesús Mari Lazkano and Lourdes de La Villa.
The grants and prizes he has received include the Basque Government award for the training of researchers (2010-2014), the Regional Council of Bizkaia’s Plastic Arts (2013), resident artist at the Fundación BilbaoArte (2010); and the 1st Prize for Young Artists in Navarre (2011), 2nd Prize for Young Artists in Pamplona (2009) and the 1st Ellos Crean Prize, from the Government of Navarre (2007).
In recent years he has held several individual exhibitions: El Guardián del Bosque, Galería Utopia Parkway (Madrid, 2014), Retorno a la Isla, Universidad Pública de Navarra (2013), Viaje e Isla 2.1. Galería Windsor Kulturgintza (Bilbao, 2012), Viaje e Isla, Fundación BilbaoArte (2011), and Entre cazador y Explorador for NEXT, Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Vitoria-Gazteiz, 2010).
In 2014 he published ISOLARIOS, funded by the Basque Government, through the publishing house Cuadernos de Utopia. It offers a compilation of a good deal of the work from his doctoral thesis project.
El Guardián Del Bosque
22 July - 2 September 2014
THE JOURNEY What do we call the journey?
- The journey introduces 3 readings, intrinsic to each other:
- The main one: that which accommodates the pictorial act as a journey.
- The representative one: the journey as useful for pictorial representation.
- The emotive one: The sum of the above for the formation of the individual.
Iker Serrano
Sala Rekalde presents an exhibition by Iker Serrano (Pamplona-Iruña, 1982), included in the barriek 2014 programme which puts on show the works of artists who have been awarded Becas de Creación Artística from the Regional Council of Bizkaia.
The work on show bearing the title El Guardián del Bosque (The guardian of the Forest) forms part of a more extensive project called ISOLARIOS, which brings together part of his production from 2010-2014. ISOLARIOS was published in printed format under the imprint Cuadernos de Utopia in April 2014. This project was funded by the Basque Government’s Department of Culture.
ISOLARIOS, and the sub-projects that comprise it, are the aesthetic result of the author’s PhD, Una mirada sobre el Viaje en la plástica, a través del fenómeno de la narrativa pictórica.
El Guardián del Bosque is the consequence of the character or mask with which the character – traveller – painter fuses after going through the experience of the journey to the painting. It is one of the specificities that determine it. If the traveller has lived in different and highly diverse scenarios and biospheres, if the painter has known his experiences and qualities with different animals, and shares this, it is natural to think that to preserve these entities is a rational consequence. In the same way, to present a figure like the Guardian of the Forest is to stress the importance of nature and those who constitute it.
THE ARTIST www.ikerserrano.com
Iker Serrano (Pamplona 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. A Fine Arts graduate from the University of the Basque Country EHU-UPV, he is currently working on his PhD, Una mirada sobre el Viaje en la plástica, dentro del fenómeno de la narrativa pictórica, under the direction of Doctors Jesús Mari Lazkano and Lourdes de La Villa.
The grants and prizes he has received include the Basque Government award for the training of researchers (2010-2014), the Regional Council of Bizkaia’s Plastic Arts (2013), resident artist at the Fundación BilbaoArte (2010); and the 1st Prize for Young Artists in Navarre (2011), 2nd Prize for Young Artists in Pamplona (2009) and the 1st Ellos Crean Prize, from the Government of Navarre (2007).
In recent years he has held several individual exhibitions: El Guardián del Bosque, Galería Utopia Parkway (Madrid, 2014), Retorno a la Isla, Universidad Pública de Navarra (2013), Viaje e Isla 2.1. Galería Windsor Kulturgintza (Bilbao, 2012), Viaje e Isla, Fundación BilbaoArte (2011), and Entre cazador y Explorador for NEXT, Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Vitoria-Gazteiz, 2010).
In 2014 he published ISOLARIOS, funded by the Basque Government, through the publishing house Cuadernos de Utopia. It offers a compilation of a good deal of the work from his doctoral thesis project.