Statement
I understand my art practice as a search for the inexpressible, the reality that transcends the merely visible. That which demands to activate a different perception open to intuition.
My current work represents a kind of intimate and meticulous diary in which each piece sums up what I have been going through during its time of formation. I use traditional techniques like stucco, gilding and egg tempera, not so much as a revival of old methods, but for the laborious and slow processes that they entail. Thus, I avoid everything which means a fast consumption of materials, in a more environmentally friendly practice.
These slow and laborious procedures tame will. Consequently, time enables outcomes that have far more to do with the density of what we experience and create, rather than with the simple measurement of time and effort.
Building a thread with my past, encompassing time and its resultant wounds, is at the core of my work. It is a means to seize the ever-changing nature and what remains. Frequently, every piece demands distinct requirements and quests for formation, unfolding metaphors linked to slow processes of mistake, misunderstanding and failure. Processes that, ultimately, bring also along findings and revelation.
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Enrique Veganzones
Madrid, 1965
Education
2005-2007 PhD courses and Diploma in Advanced Studies, School of Philosophy, Universidad de Murcia
1992-1997 MA Fine Arts Painting (with honors) Universidad Complutense de Madrid
1991-1992 First art studies at Samuel S. Fleisher, Philadelphia EE.UU.
1984-1987 MA Social Work Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Solo exhibitions
2018
La armonía del exilio, Muralla Bizantina, Cartagena
2017
Homenaje a Alberti, Centro Cultural La Corrala, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid [catalogue]. Joint project with composer José Buenagu.
2010
Del alfar y el lagar, Teatro Zorrilla, Diputación de Valladolid, Valladolid [catalogue]
2009
Mano trémula, Universidad de Murcia [catalogue]
Periferias, Fundación Santa María de Albarracín, Albarracín, Teruel [images]
Sala de la Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Huesca
2008
Sala Barbasán, Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Zaragoza
2007
Las cosas mudas, Galería Edurne, Madrid [catalogue]
Las cosas mudas, Fundación Las Edades del Hombre, Monasterio de Santa María de Valbuena, Valladolid [catalogue]
2006
Del encuentro, Centro Cultural, Ceutí
2005
La Pausa, Galería Art Nueve, Murcia
2004
La Pausa, Galería Edurne, Madrid [catalogue]
2003
Pintura y obra sobre papel, Museo de San Javier, Murcia
2001
Pintura Vertical, Galería Edurne, Madrid
Group exhibitions
2018
XXVII Premio de Pintura Bienal Eusebio Sempere, Onil, Alicante
XXIV Premio de Artes Plásticas Ciudad de Castellón
2010
Europa Konkret-Intelligibel-International, Kunstverein Bamberg, Germany
2009
XXXVII Concurso Nacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo, Murcia
Konkret-Intelligibel, Künstlerforum, Bonn, Germany
Ein Jahr, 31 positionen, 30 Räume (2009-2010), Museum of Modern Art, Hünfeld, Germany [images]
2008
Identidades IV, Galería Edurne, Madrid
2007
Identidades III, Galería Edurne, Madrid
III Premio de Pintura de MUFACE, Madrid
2004
El papel, ese soporte, Galería Edurne, Madrid
2003
ARCO ’03, stand Galería Edurne, Madrid
2002
ARCO ’02, stand Galería Edurne, Madrid
2000
Interludio 2000-2001, Galería Edurne, Madrid
Residencies
2020
Thread Senegal, The Albers Foundation (April, 2020, postponed due to Covid 19)
2018
Art House Holland by PAC, The Netherlands (November 2018)
Awards
2018
First prize XXVII Bienal de Pintura Eusebio Sempere, Onil, Alicante
Shortlisted XXIV Premio de Artes Plásticas Ciudad de Castellón
2009
First prize XXXVII Concurso Nacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo, Murcia [image]
Other experiences
2019
Workshop Emotional health in connection with nature, Taizé Community, France
Workshop Expressing the Inexpressible, Living Stones 2019 Training event, Zürich, Switzerland
Art workshops with children in a poor neighbourhood in Dakar, Senegal [video]
2017-2019
Coordination of the Erasmus+ project We All Art [weallart.blogspot.com]
2017
First prize IX Vicente Ferrer Award for Development Education, Spanish Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs [video]
2015-2017
Coordination of the Erasmus+ project Art 4 Human Rights [art4humanrights.blogspot.com]
1991-1992
Fulbright grant: Social work with refugees, Philadelphia, USA
1988-1998
Social worker, Spanish Institute of Social Services for refugees and asylum seekers, Madrid, Spain