Néstor Del Barrio

Statement

His pictorial and sculptural works in an aesthetic framework that reflects on industrial processes, the digital world and virtuality, using materials and parts of obsolete technological and industrial components to put them in dialogue with the most traditional artistic narratives of the landscape. In doing so, he poses questions to the viewer and himself about the idea of reality, the speed in the contemporary world itself. His work expresses concern about what digital technology and the internet will mean in the future, how it intervenes in the reception of reality itself or the current conception we have of the image. It is through the pictorial act itself that all these reflections are addressed, from technical solutions such as the frame or the support. His works sometimes approach the concept of expanded painting, organizing site-specific installations that fit the exhibition spaces that house them.

GlogauAIR Project

The project that I will carry out during the residency at GlogauAIR will be a set of multidisciplinary works resulting from images and elements collected from the city. In my work, I usually start with the reuse of obsolete electronic components and industrial waste to generate new discourses and put them in dialogue with other materials and different elements. On the other hand, I like to work accompanying the sculptural production with a series of paintings, with which I seek to understand the difference between the object and its image. Therefore, I intend to make this multidisciplinary production the result of the city of Berlin itself and my time living in it.

CV Summary

EDUCATION

• 2024 To finalize Master in Artistic Production of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV)
• 2013-2017 Graduated in Fine Arts at the UCLM University of Castilla la Mancha, Cuenca

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2022 PAISAJISMO. Juan Silió Gallery. Santander.
• 2021 TITANIO. Foundation CASYC. Santander. IMAGEN AMBIENTAL. Solo project Juan Silió Gallery. Artesantander Fair.
• 2020 EL FIN SERÁ TELEVISADO. La Pause Residency, Marrakech.
• 2018 TRASFONDOS. Lamosa LAB. Cuenca, Castilla la Mancha.

COLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

• 2024 “Hacia una Arquitectura Plástica” School of Architects of Cantabria. Santander.
• 2023 “GEN- Z. Spanish Wet Painting”. We collect Gallery, Madrid.
• 2022 Estampa Fair . Juan Silió Gallery. IFEMA, Madrid. “Bahía, el litoral como ágora”. DILALICA Gallery. Space Los arenales. Santander. “Pintura de los años 90 a nuestros días. Articulando el siglo”. Collection Los Bragales. Torrelavega. Cantabria.
• 2021 “BETWEEN-Sensing Potencial Worlds”. Zeppelin University. Friedrichshafen, Germany. “VÍSTEME CON ARTE.” Foundation Bank Santander. Santander. “IMAGEN AMBIENTAL” Foundation Caja Cantabria CASYC. Santander.
• 2020 “PROYECTO 20/20. FRONTERA < 40” – Casas del Águila y La Parra, Santillana del Mar, Cantabria.
• 2019 “PARAISO NARUTAL.191219” LALONA Gallery, Gijón. “MODOS DE REPRESENTACIÓN AFK” JUAN SILIÓ Gallery, Santander. “DEL CUADERNO DEL COLECCIONISTA” artistas cántabros de la Colección Los Bragales. Castillo de Argüeso, Cantabria.
• 2018 X BIENNAL DÁRTS RIUDEBITLLES, Work in paper. Sant Pere de Riudebitlles, Barcelona. PREMIOS CASIMIRO SAINZ 1999-2017. Fondos Ayuntamiento de Reinosa. Castillo de Argüeso, Cantabria.
• 2017 Selected “X Premio Internacional de Grabado y Vino Fundación Vivanco” Briones, La rioja.
• 2016 Project “Situaciones” collaboration with the artist Jose Aja “Ejercicios de puntería” International meeting l LA SITUCIÓN 2016” Cuenca.

RESIDENCIES AND PRIZES

• 2024 GlogauAIR Residency Berlín.
• 2023 Artist residency Nautilus, Lanzarote.
• 2020 Artist residency CASYCREA. Santander. Program of International Residency Orbital, with destination in La Pause Residency, Marrakech.
• 2019 First prize MEET ME IN ARTS best artistic portfolio. Cantabria.
• 2017 First prize “ XXXVIII Concurso de Pintura Ayuntamiento de Villaescusa” Cantabria.
• 2016 First prize “ Concurso Nacional de Pintura Casimiro Sainz” Reinosa, Cantabria.

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