Julio Vaquero

Julio Vaquero (Barcelona 1958) developed his work from the study of reality. His preoccupation with pictorial techniques and procedures led him to dedicate his beginnings to the study of the great flamenco masters, after which he began to develop his own language. The study of materials gradually took him away from the orthodoxy of the realist tradition and immersed him in a continuous process of experimentation. His search focuses on the fundamental problems of light and space and on the duality between flat space and three-dimensional space, concentrating his gaze on the elements that shape culture and the world of contemporary knowledge, as well as the figure inside symbolic spaces

Vaquero has been invited on numerous occasions to give lectures at universities, foundations and art centers and has written press articles about different artists, such as Anselm Kiefer or Bill Viola. He has also collaborated in a special edition of Editorial Planeta on the work of Antonio López and was the scriptwriter of the TVE 2 program “La mitad invisible” about his work. He has recently done the scenography for the play “Talking heads” for the National Theatre of Catalonia.

 

 

  • 2023 “Escapar del tiempo presente. Circulo Foundation. Burgos.
    Pigment Gallery, París
  • 2020 “Memorias del mundo físico” Marlborough Gallery. Madrid
  • 2019 “Julio Vaquero. Entre el destello y la penumbra.” Artal Roc. Andorra la Vella
  • 2018 “Museo robado”. Marlborough Gallery. Barcelona
  • 2016 Galería Torbandena. Trieste
  • 2013 “Buscar en tierra de nadie”. Private Foundation Vilacasas. Barcelona
  • 2012 Galería Fucares. Madrid
  • 2011 “El final de las apariencias”. Trama Gallery and Centre D’Art Santa Mónica. Barcelona
  • 2005 “Dibujos”. Galería Trama. Barcelona
  • 2004 “Basado en hechos reales”. Trama Gallery. Madrid
  • 2003 Sala Pares. Barcelona
  • 2003 “Realitats Il.luminades”. Montserrat Museum. Barcelona
  • 1992 Kouros Gallery. New York
  • 1991 Galería Forni. Bologne
  • 2023 Pintura Figurativa Contemporánea China y España, Centro de Arte Quan Shanshi, en Hangzhou, China
  • 2023 LA Art Show. Pigment Gallery, Barcelona
  • 2023 ART Palm Beach. Pigment Gallery, Barcelona
  • 2022 Seattle Art Fair. Pigment Gallery, Barcelona
  • 2022 BAD+ Bordeaux. Pigment Gallery, Barcelona
  • 2022 Art Paris. Pigment Gallery, Barcelona
  • 2022 LA Art Show. Pigment Gallery, Barcelona
  • 2019 Classic and Contemporary Art IV, Marlborough Barcelona, Barcelona
  • 2018 Arte Fiera Bologna. Galería Torbandena. Bologna
  • 2017 Los Angeles ART SHOW. Pigment Gallery, Barcelona
  • 2017 Art on Paper NY. Pigment Gallery. New York
  • 2017 Market Art+Design. Hamptons. Pigment Gallery. New York
  • 2017 Summer Show. Galeria Marlborough. Barcelona
  • 2017 Context Art 2017. Pigment Gallery. Miami
  • 2016 Summer Show. Galería Marlborough. Barcelona
  • 2016 Gallery Weekend Barcelona. Galería Charles Taché. Barcelona
  • 2015 Arte Fiera Bologna. Galería Torbandena
  • 2014 ARCO 2014. Galería Torbandena. Triest
  • 2014 “Visiones de la realidad”. Fundación Caja Canarias. Tenerife. Islas Canarias.
  • 2012 “De luces mixtas”. Galería Marlborough. Madrid
  • 2012 “Antonio López y la colección Sorigué”. Fundación Sorigué. Lleida

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