Juan Manuel Fernánez-Pinedo (Madrid, 1978)
Madrid-born artist Juan Manuel Fernández-Pinedo began painting in the early 1990s. His work is characterised by a profound exploration of plasticity, integrating realism and abstraction. The subject matter of his works covers a wide variety: from portraits, landscapes and animals to complex compositions where he shows us a multiplicity of textures, brushstrokes and personal elements of great complexity.
«In my artistic process I find a constant need to extract the most plastic aspect of different themes. I seek to bring out something that I have not yet explored, the path of evolution is found in the most personal and primitive: the gesture, the imprint, the way of interpreting the elements through colour, composition, the material and the way of placing it, etc. Thus, I configure scenes with the idea of generating a new world, a world where the alterations of colours, textures and other elements change the sensations with the purpose of taking the spectator on a visual journey where what is known is transformed into something different so that it awakens in him a restlessness to investigate infinite possibilities.»
One of the artist’s latest lines of work explores everything he discovered after several trips to the island of Zanzibar, in Tanzania: «On my return, already in the studio and with good photographic documentation and also keeping in touch with new friends from the village where I stayed, I began to discover what had me “sleepless”. Scenes in which many things happen in a short time… children play, fishermen work, a boat comes in, you see the fish swimming, a family dives, the water sounds, the foam is the colour of the horchata, a bike passes over the horchata, and in a few seconds… a cloud comes in so white that it lights up everything. I think this is because they do most of their lives outside, on the streets, and always together, with friends or professional colleagues. Added to these circumstances is something impressive to see, and that is a sky that moves and changes even faster than their society. Such movement of clouds creates a play of light and shadow that bathes and changes the colours of all the elements at times. And so I understood that it was the whole of it that I wanted to paint, a bomb of joy where such special colours and scenes come together in a natural way. In short, pure beauty and life was that ‘I don’t know what’ that was keeping me from sleeping…»
Juan Manuel Fernández-Pinedo’s work can be found in numerous institutions, museums and private collections such as the collection of the city of San Lorenzo del Escorial, the Arauco Foundation, the Adolfo Lozano Sidro Museum, the Wellington Hotel Foundation, the collections of the U.R.S.S.A. Alava, the Gaceta Regional Salamanca Foundation, the Caja Segovia Foundation-Agustín de Diego Collection, the ‘Arte al Límite’ Museum in Chile, the private collection of Ciudad Real, among others. He has also taken part in many national and international exhibitions and contemporary art fairs, having been awarded important prizes such as the 1st Prize in the ‘Salón de Ayamonte’ painting competition, the 1st Prize in the Gredos Painting Competition (Arenas de San Pedro), the 1st Prize in the City of Boadilla del Monte Painting Competition, the Gold Medal – BMW Painting Prize on several occasions and the ‘Fundación Villalar’ Prize – Castilla y Leon of Plastic Arts.
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