Jesús Curía

Born in Madrid in 1969
lives and works in Madrid
Since 2009 Professor of Volume at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria Madrid
Represented by the Anquins Gallery, Reus, Spain

Jesús Curiá "Juego", bronze

Biography

1988-1992 Studied Fine Arts, specialising in sculpture, at the Complutense University of Madrid
1992 Completion of studies with examination
1995 Curso de doctorado

International exhibitions & trade fairs (selection):
Singapore Art Stage (Singapore) - Art 14 London (England) - Art Karlsruhe (Germany) - ST-ART (France) - India Art Fair (India) - Art Winwood (New York, USA) - Art Chicago (USA) - Palm Beach Three (Palm Beach, USA) - Scope Miami (USA) - Scope Basel (Switzerland) - Art Madrid (Spain) - Biennial show of the South of Panama (Panama) - 7rd International Art Expo (Malaysia)

Artistic position

Jesús Curía has the ability to tell intense stories full of poetry and magic centred around his characters.
He is a virtuoso and brilliant master of his craft.

The Spanish artist's sculptures are works of distinct aesthetics that deeply move the viewer.
Curía works with bronze, which he sometimes combines with stone, wood and iron.

He often combines clear human forms, faces and bodies with abstract or geometric structures by replacing body parts with these.
By omitting essential attributes, the artist concentrates on the essentials of expression in gestures and facial expressions - it is this reduction that accounts for the intensity of his figures.

The human body is at the centre of his work.
His figures are naked, but it is not about nudity as such, but about the expression that results from being unclothed.
The delicate protagonists are mostly childlike, juvenile in nature and their soft facial features radiate innocent openness and naivety.
They seem to be defencelessly at the mercy of the world in which they proudly assert themselves.

Jesús Curía is intensively involved with non-Western cultures, especially African and Asian ones.
Their ideal of beauty and image of man flows into his works and leads to the artist's individual expression in the fusion of various ethnic characteristics.

Exhibitions

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Finds - Archaeology of the future

2019-2023 - Coloured pencil on index card, 10.5 × 14.8 cm each, framed, drawing

 

Land series

2017-2021 - Ink & watercolour on magazine paper, each approx. 20 × 27 cm, framed, painting

Blue archive

2023 - Mixed media on paper, variable formats

Interior views

2020 - Object collages and drawing, installation

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