The Spanish Gallery announces its participation to the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam with a selection of Artists from their Gallery
In October 2024, the Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam returns for its 18th edition, featuring a diverse selection of thousands of affordable contemporary artworks from both Dutch and international galleries. The Spanish Gallery coming from Madrid Juca Claret is participating in the fair with a selection of artists from their gallery: Juan José Vicente, Héctor Romero, Dresu, Javier Orozco, Anna Åström, Mireia Serra.
Juan José Vicente is an artist from Madrid, born in 1968. After working with several materials, he now focuses on acrylic and graphite pigments on wood to get an infinite range of broken colors and textures. His palettes are inspired by the earth colors and the wide range of the gray spectrum. His works predominantly feature winter and seascapes, often snowy and foggy, evoking a calm and reflective atmosphere. The mysterious quality of his paintings, enhanced by dense layers, gives them a poetic and evocative character. With a melancholic touch, his creations draw inspiration from travel and personal experiences. These atmospheric landscapes reveal deeper narratives, suggesting that what we see is merely a representation of the invisible and spiritual. They embody themes of welcome and farewell, capturing the essence of solitude in nature.
Hector Romero is a Spanish artist born in Malaga in 1973. He now lives and works in Madrid, where he moved with his family when he was little. He had a passion for painting, exploring various styles. With a background in perspective, technical drawing, and spatial design, he focuses on a pictorial style that blends surrealism, architectural minimalism, and expressionism. My desolate landscapes feature bold volumes and disturbing spaces, characterized by impossible perspectives and dreamlike atmospheres inhabited by small shadows and self-betraying geometries. He strives to add layers of mystery and optical illusion to my pieces, using forced perspectives and characters positioned in different planes to offer multiple viewpoints. Beyond this play of illusion, the artist aims to explore a three-dimensional reflection on perspective, light, and color—creating an open window into the realm of dreams.
Dresu, is a plastic artist, muralist and graphic designer. He describes himself as cautious and calm in his personal life, but professionally he feels restless. He has a technically expressionist style that reflects his extroverted personality. For him, painting serves as a megaphone to express himself. His work draws heavily from his travel experiences, employing a mix of acrylics, spray, inks, oil, and collage. While he currently focuses on painting, he is open to exploring large-scale sculpture in the future. Dresdu believes that art should stem from sincerity; works created under constraints lose their meaning.
Javier Orozco started to draw a middle size imaginary city, Orozgar City, a work in progress for more than 30 years.His current series MD (Unknown Worlds) include experiences of all his series. From 2012 the artist added some technological and industrial pieces over the background creating a three dimensional evolution. Nowadays Javier explores different mediums and possibilities, expressing himself in his MD as a composer who faces the challenges of combining paint and recycled pieces to create new worlds.
Anna Åström was born in Sweden in 1972. She paints watercolor miniatures, being loyal to the traditional technique of having the paper as the only white and the water as the only light, using just the brush to paint. When she was 14, she had the opportunity to expose her painting for the first time. Since then, she has participated in several exhibitions and collaborations. Since then Anna pays special attention to small details, as she stated that they make life big. Now, she lives and works in Spain, being inspired by details and small images she encounters every day.
Mireia Serra was born in Barcelona in 1973. For Mireia Serra, sculpture serves as a delicate mirror of her inner world, expressing her moods and desires in a cathartic way. Her work opens a cosmos of sensations and memories, fostering a connection with viewers and inviting art into daily life. It encourages contemplation about existence and our relationship with the world. Through the lost-wax technique, she brings small characters to life, meticulously carving wax to highlight specific details. Her background in fashion influences her focus on complementary elements like shoes and everyday objects, giving her sculptures a jewelry-like quality.
Cover image: Dresu, Noche y vino. Courtesy of Juca Claret Gallery.