JORGE NAVA

CV

Born 1980  , Gijon.

EDUCATION
Fine Arts, University Of Basque Country, Bilbao.2000-2006.

PRIZES,  GRANTS, RESIDENCES
2019   Glogauair Residence. Berlin.
2018   Fiskarsair Residence. Fiskars. Finland.
2018   Second Price Painting Park Natural Peaks Of Europe.
2016   Artistic Productions Municipal Foundation Of Culture, Gijón.
2015   V Encontros Novos. Ciudad De La Cultura. Santiago De Compostela
2015   Al Norte Grant.
2010   Artistic Productions Municipal Foundation Of Culture, Gijón.
2009   Y  2007  Firts Prize Award Painting Noreña.
2007   Frist Prize Muestra De Artes Plasticas De Asturias.
2007  International Residence With Enrrique Marty. Blanca . Murcia.
2006   Erasmus Grant Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee.  Prof. Katharina Grosse.
2005   Talens Grant.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018   “Like Bees To The Honey” Space 1. Ccai. Gijon.
2016   “Vagos Y Maleantes”, Arancha Osoro Gallery. Oviedo.
2015   “La Otra Familia”, Barjola Museum. Gijon.
2015   “Payasos”, Valey, Cultural Center Of Castrillon.
2014    “Remakes”. Nomada Gallery. Gijon.
2013    “Seres Vivos”. Guillermina  Caicoya Gallery. Oviedo.
2011    “ El Sótano”.Ccai, Antiguo Instituto. Gijón.
2011    “La Habitación De La Carne”. Borágine Gallery. Avilés.
2010    “Sótano Tv”. Artist´S Studio. Gijon.
2009    “A Ninguna Parte”.Atm Altamira Gallery. Gijón.
2008    “Todavia Vivo”. Borrón Gallery. Oviedo.
2006    “Aditamentos”. Atm Altamira Gallery . Gijon
2004    “ Todo Lo Mío”. Borron Gallery. Oviedo.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020    Artmadrid Alzueta Gallery.
2019     Manchester Contemporary Art Fair. Espacio Liquido Gallery.
2019     Open Studios Glogauair Residence.Berlin.
2018     Fiskarsair Residency, Finland.
2018     Artmarbella Fair, Arancha Osoro Gallery.
2018     Justlx Lisbon Fair, Arancha Osoro Gallery.
2018     “Intnense” Sabadell-Herrero Bank Space. Oviedo.
2016     Oviedo Artfair. Arancha Osoro Gallery.
2016    “Primitive Estructure” Jorge Nava & Job Sanchez. Espacio  Liquido Gallery. Gijon.
2016    Art Madrid. Arancha Osoro Gallery.
2015    “Cajas” Contemporary Ceramics In Asturias. Museum Of  Fine Arts Of Asturias. Oviedo.
2015     Arancha Osoro Gallery. Oviedo.
2015     Bea Villlamarin Gallery. Gijon.
2014     Arancha Osoro Gallery. Oviedo.
2014     Lola Orato Gallery. Oviedo.
2014    Oviedo Art Fair.
2011    Ecolab. Laboral Museum. Gijón.
2011    Arco. Atm  Altamira Gallery.
2010    Arco. Atm  Altamira Gallery.
2009     Festival Intercéltico De Loriant. Francia.
2009     Circa Fair, San Juan. Puerto Rico. Atm  Altamira Gallery.
2008     Scope Art Fair. New York. Atm Altamira Gallery.
2008    “Las Cruces Del Arte”, Asturias, Madrid, Bruselas.
2008     Circa Fair, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Atm Altamira Fair.
2007     Fhoto Miami Art Basel Fair. Atm  Altamira Fair.
2007     Muestra De Artes Plásticas De Asturias.
2007     Government Delegation In Madrid Asturias.
2007     “Outsiders”. Epelde & Mardaras Gallery. Bilbao.
2007     Circa Fair, Puerto Rico. Atm  Altamira Gallery.

ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Talens Foundation. Barcelona.
Private Collection. Spain.
Private Collection. Ee.Uu.
Museo De Bellas Artes La Habana. Cuba.
Maria Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation.
Alicia Aza Collection.
Gobierno Principado De Asturias.

PUBLICATIONS
“Intensa”, Sabadell Space Bank. Catallog.Oviedo. 2019.
“Boxes” Contemporary Ceramic In Asturias. Bellas Artes Museum. Catallog. Oviedo. 2016.
Arte Y Parte Magazine, Nº102, Pag. 92. 2013.
Art.Es Magazine. Nº 12, 13, 16.

About

Jorge Nava’s unique art originates and evolves from abstraction and its cornerstones are to be found in the relationship between form, colour and gesture as well as in the overlapping between the pictorial and the poetic.

His language has evolved from a primary phase, where the artistic process was based on observation, intuition and improvisation as a way to materialize sensitive experiences, to the current stage of consolidation of a more formal language, in which the organic forms of the previous period have been replaced by geometric figures (circles and squares) and the basic elements of graphic expression  (points and lines) which have been erected as the nuclear elements of his discourse along with a narrow range of colours, usually two (bicromía).

Greatly influenced by American abstract expressionism, Jorge Nava’s paintings are an elaborate work of artistic synthesis, where philosophy, poetry and contemplation are interweaved in an increasingly refined language that, regardless of superfluous elements, configures a unique space where gestures and forms enable a long-lasting and pleasant aesthetic experience.