 Francisca
Blàsquez
CURRICULUM VITAE:
FRANCISCA BLÁZQUEZ
was born in 1966 in Madrid, Spain. She studied at the
Faculty of Beautiful Arts of Madrid from 1981 to 1983 and at
the Study Arjona from 1983 to 1989. She obtained diverse scholarships
in her studies after a rigorous selection process: Arjona Studies, Drawing
Statues, Drawing Figures, Bodegón Painting, Painting Figures
and Personal Interpretation. From 1989 to 2002 she has
completed the following courses: an Intensive Course of Painting
with Dª Mª Luisa Esteban in the Monastery of Pole, Pontevedra;
Study in Groups, Biennial of Venice; Oliver Mosset, in New York;
Intensive Course of Painting in Paris; Circle of Beautiful Arts
in Madrid; Intensive Course of Contemporary Art with Mr. John
Armleder; Study Kassel Documents and Complete Course of 3D (Three
Dimensions) with Joaquin Carnicer. Francisca utilizes
diverse and complex artistic animations, digital photographs and
a great artistic production in her half electronic work in Madrid.
COLLECTIVE
EXPOSITIONS and FAIRS:
Francisca has
participated through the years in about 200 collective expositions
in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland. 2002 - American
Prints. Supermarket of the Art. Madrid. Spain.
2002 - North Balcony. The Merindades and Valley of Valdivielso.
Burgos. Castille and Leon. Spain. 2002 - ‘Umbrella
Intervened'. Rafaela. Argentina. Traveling to
10 cities Argentinas. 2002 - EVA. Iberjoya. Madrid.
Spain. 2002 - EVA. Fair of València. València.
Spain.- 2002. EVA. Calamocha. Teruel. Aragón.
Spain. 2002 - Castle of Lucena. ‘They spinned Be used
to III'. Lucena. Cordoba. Andalusia. Spain.
2002 - Gallery 21. Collective of engraving. Cordoba.
Andalusia. Spain. 2002 - Central of Islamic Studies.
Madrid. Spain. 2002 - Business Art Gallery. Córboda.
Argentina. 2002 - Collective of engraving. Rina Bouwlen. Madrid.
Spain. 2002 - Third Edition of FAIM. Independent fair
of Art in Madrid.
Madrid.
Spain. 2002 - Espaço Lóios. Oporto.
Portugal. 2002 - Public Collection Space. Albacete.
Spain. 2002 - Gallery Saw-art. Director: Montse Saw.
Barcelona. Spain. 2003 - Fair of Iberjoya. ‘Tonet'.
Madrid. Spain. 2003 - EVA. ‘Second Skin'.
Cordoba. Andalusia. Spain. 2003 - Gallery d'Art
i Antiguetats Paqui Thin. Sant Sadurní d'Anoia.
Catalonia. Espanya. 2003 - Market of Commerce.
Buenos aires. Argentina. 2003 - Central Colombo American.
Barranquilla. Colombia
Expositions
in fairs including: ARCH, with the gallery Anselmo Alvarez
of Madrid; fair of COLONY (Germany), with the Galeria d'Art Contemporani
Antoni Pinyol of Reus (Tarragona-Spain) and to Lineart, in Gent-Ghent
(Belgium) with the Gallery Berruet Building of Logroño directed
by Killing Berrueta.
WORKS
IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Cordoba, Tarragona, Girona, Reus, Lleida,
Logroño, Gernika); France (Paris); Swiss (Basilea); Germany
(Mannheim); Portugal (Oporto); Argentina (Rafaela, Conception of
the Uruguay and Cordoba); Colombia (Holy Marta) and United States.
Collection ‘Peoples of Forastía'. Anaite. The
Rioja. Director: Kill Berrueta. Spain.
WORKS
IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS:
- OR. B. S. Swiss union Banks. Madrid. Spain.
- Banking Cooperation Switzerland. Barcelona. Spain.
- Banking Corporation of Spain. Argentaria. Madrid.
- Private Businesses of Basilea. Swiss. - Contemporary
Museum of Art of Japan. Marugame Hirai. Japan.
- Museum Ánfora Nova. Rute. Cordoba. Andalusia.
Spain. - Kultur Etxea Gernika-Lumoko. Bizkaia.
The Basque Region. Spain. - Peoples of Forastía.
Anaite. Logroño. The Rioja. Spain.
- City Hall of Lucena. Cordoba. Andalusia. Spain.
- Gallery of Art Paqui Thin. Sant Sadurní d'Anoia.
Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain. - Gallery Berruet
Building. Logroño. The Rioja. Spain.
- Espai Miquel Gaspar. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain.
- Latin American Foundation for the Development. FIDE.
Madrid. Spain.
- ‘Marquis of
Comares'. Lucena. Cordoba. Andalusia. Spain.
- Gallery 4/17. Madrid. Spain.gallery Anselmo Alvarez.
Madrid. Spain.
- Gallery Verena Hoffer. Barcelona. Spain.
- Gallery Austellungsraum. Basilea. Swiss.
- Literary Society of Madrid. Holy room of Expositions Catalina.
Madrid. Spain.
- Gallery Antoni Pinyol. Reus. Tarragona.
- House gave Culture it gave Brazil. Madrid. Spain.
- Museum Bolivariano of Art of Holy Marta. Holy Marta.
Colombia.
- Pictorial Work. City Hall of Cadalso of the Glasses.
Community of Madrid. Spain.
- Work escultórica. The ‘C' of Cadalso. City
Hall of Cadalso of the Glasses. Community of Madrid.
Spain.
- Gallery Rina Bouwlen. Madrid. Spain.gallery Saw-art.
Directed by Montse Saw. Barcelona. Spain.
- Obligatory Direction. Albacete. Spain.
Francisca
Blázquez
Francisca Blázquez
is one of the most impressive contemporary astists I know. Her work
starts from analyzing the reality and thinking about possible worlds.
Posible ways to change reality, to re-create a status of living
our everyday life. And she makes this research using 3D modelers
and all new technologies we know. After thios first experimentation,
she Animate her virtual reality. Because of she has a great curriculum
as dancer, she has the key to express feelings emotions passions
and movement in the best way. I love her videos. So, from body to
virtuality, from reality to digital, Francisca tell us her personal
way of thinking life, of thinking art. Contemporary art, that today,
has too many problems of expression. As curator and as artist too,
I think she will show us all wonderful possibilities of contemporary
art-world and her reserarch will continue to find new styles and
ideas. As all great artists of the history.
Luca
Curci - Art director Non Stop
Francisca
Blázquez, Creator of "the Dimensionalismo"
Francisca Blázquez,
multidisciplinary artist, works in painting, sculpture, engraving,
conventional photography, digital photography, experimental retail
jewelry, drawing and in technology in Three D (Three Dimensions),
carrying out with this last one, Net.Art and digital creations that lately are
expressed on diverse backgrounds. Likewise, Francisca
carries out creations and expositions which combine movement,
"cinetismo" and compositions using space with energy and
a dimensional approach.
Her painting
concentrates on utilizing contemporary geometry that has evolved
until, in 1998, she created "the Dimensionalismo", based on the
beating of known dimensions to date to be interested in speaking
of the multidisciplinary and multidimensional, in which no
limits exist.
Francisca works
in the transformation forms –through color. The form is the
structure constituted by the color that establishes a theory of
opponents as they have employed tone, organizing perspectives,
compositions that, still being planned, tend to be spacially geometric
and lean toward a consolidation of multidimensial diversity as
an axis of their speech.
Francisca's
tendency toward the dimensional increases in her work in the
technology of Three D (Three Dimensions) by computer in which she
establishes a multiplicity of dimensional approaches, in her
work on Net.Art and in her multiple digital creations expressed with
"metacrilato" and industrial canvas, fundamentally. These
creations are structured around a formal facility that the artist
presents in such a way that configures a gifted composition
of permanent movement, in which the forms are always being transformed.
This is
a start but not an end. That is to say that the works remain
open to new transformations.
The artist feels
that her contemporary dimensional art is not to be closed
to finished and perishable products. Art for Francisca Blázquez
is multidimensional and eternal, in the sense that the creator can
always intervene in it and when this is carried out there is a transfer
in the step of time in who takes charge of forming a creation.
For that reason her work, conceived in the technology of Three
D, ia a product of a complex elaboration, feverish and
elegant, where "superponiendo dimensions" and the creation experiences
are full of constant changes, being transformed from am aforesaid
form into new configurations, given that art cannot be a closed
concept, such as the end product of a compact car.
For that reason art's
speech evolves from the limitations of the background, of the contained
conventionalisms in its own parameters of the plastic disciplines
Francisca utilizes, toward a creative conception in which a transformation
inherent in its own work is produced, that the artist calls
"Dimensionalismo" and that we verify, especially, in its digital
artistic animations.
Joan Lluís Montané. (JLM)
Of the Associació Catalonian of Crítics d'Art, of
Madrid Association of Critics of Art, Spanish Association of Critics
of Art and of the International Association of Critics of Art.
Geometry
and rigor on the basis of sensibility. About Francisca Blázquez
Even thouhn
all different tendencies are much more deeply related than we initially
suppossed, we commonly talk about geometry as one of the very basic
directions for the arts of our times, as well as one of the best
known branches-besides Expressionism and the superreal-which have
contributed to configure art.
From within this orientation exists, since the beginning of the
century, a very clear objective to reduce ir to almost nothing in
the searchings for a ‘genuine’ art that could be painting –or any
other medium-; and also proposals which usually include an expressive
doses through color, neither limiting this to the use of primary
colors and non colors –as the neoplasticits did –and with a treatment
instead of major range and sensibility.
I personally think that Francisca Blázquez is keeping the
opening of those two possibilities in the whole of her artwork,
in a kind of synthesis and progresively she seems inclined to the
very first, without losing contact with a human and creative touch.
Francisca Blázquez artwork develops contrasting effects,
through the use of complementary colors –red ad green-as well for
luminousness. She likes wholeness and intensity. I must say she
does not reach –perhaps she does not want to- the absolutely minimal
estates in morphology which are easily perceived.
Though some complexities, above all for oblique dinamics to which
she adds curves and straigth elements, excel elementality. She escapes
equally, with no excess from the simple red-yellow-blue with black
and white.
The artist allows diverse alternatives and suggests visual elegance.
So it seems to the viewer.
Whom either glimpses or looks for a hidden simbolism.
The personality of the artist gets its proportion in between two
attitudes. One which imposses a deep request to the eye, though
it knows how to calm it; the other a vitality of movement and the
peace of the stable, a tranquil poetry. Like the surface of deep
waters, a curve of the Earth from above or a horizon where the sight
rests.
Ángel
Azpeitia. Former President of The Spanish Association of Art Critics.
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Some of the artist's artwork
Contact:
fblazquez@retemail.es
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