5+5 opening at Setba Foundation

Opening at Setba Foundation: 20:00h

Plaça Reial 10, 1-2, Barcelona. Tel. 93 4813696

Exhibition dates: 6/3/2013 to 30/4/2013

For information about guided visits, write to:

5plus5group@gmail.com

5+5 brochure

The travelling exhibition 5+5 it is planned to be opened on Setba Foundation, located on Plaza Real in Barcelona, on march 6 until april 30, 2013.

5+5 stone lithography case will be exhibited also in Arts Libris book fair in the Santa Monica Art Center, on march 20 to march 23 on Taller Esquina stand and also in Setba Foundation stand.

In september the works could be seen at the Molì Paparer de Capellades, and in October will travel to galleries in Peking, Shanghai and Hong Kong with the support in China of Antalis paper, CapiGo Investment Management Co. Ltd. Beijing, Guide Brand Consultant and UACC.

Visit our exhibition next 6th march and ask for a free 5+5 brochure!

Curator: Alex Mitrani.

Coordination in China: Yang Shun.

5+5 Stone lithography case: Taller Esquina.

Bookbinding: Àngels Arroyo.

Video: Nelo Olmos.

Translations: Lilia Hu, Fiona He, Núria Rossell, Olga Vela.

Graphic design: Maribel Mas.

Brochure printer: Guide Brand Consultant.

Collaborators

纸张由康戴里提供印刷于：丽芙超感滑面超白200克 Antalis paper: antaliscn.com

CapiGo Investment Management Co. Ltd. Beijing

Guide Brand Consultant: www. b-design.com

UACC: www.uadata.cn

Fundació Setba: www.fundaciosetba.org

Molì Paperer de Capellades: www.mmp-capellades.net

Kanyain japanese papers: kanyain.paper@gmail.com

BarnaPaper: www.barna-art.com

Qiu Hong 邱 虹

2002, graduated from the Guang Zhou Academy of Fine Arts in Mural Painting.

2008, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Chinese Painting School with a Master of Arts degree.

In the present is a Lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts, Beijing Institute of Education and Beijing Meticulous Color Picture Association.

Collective exhibitions

2006, In the Mood for Love, National 6th Meticulous

Painting Exhibition, Beijing Art Museum of China

School of Claustrophobia 1,2,

2007, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery,

Beijing, China.

2008, Central Academy of Fine Arts College, Beijing,

China.

2008, 1st National Institute of Cutting-Edge Exhibition,

National Academy of Painting, Beijing, China.

2009, Chinese National Academy of Painting Gallery,

Beijing, China.

2009, Chen Xiaofeng, Qiu Hong,

Guangzhou Trojan Center for the Arts, China.

2010, Young Artist 13 Exhibition, Guangzhou 12 Art

Space, China.

Hanada Art Exhibition, Beijing, China.

798 Art Zone.

Chinese Contemporary Art Yearbook,

International Museum of Art, China.

2011, CBD Art Festival, Beijing Contemporary Art

Museum, China.

Revolution Centenary, Beijing Art Museum,

China.

Awards

2009, Contemporary College Students Annual Awards,

Nominated Prize, Beijing Contemporary Art

Museum, China.

Web page

Qiu Hong: http://www.qiuhong.artnews.cn/

Yang Shun 杨 舜

1994, graduated from the High School Of Fine Art University of Guangzhou.

1998, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Fine Art University of Guangzhou, Majoring in contemporary oil painting and bachelor’s degree.

2005, lives and works in Barcelona, Spain until present.

Collective exhibitions

2012, Dos A Dos, Barcelona, Spain.

10 Chinese women abstract artists international

exhibition first show, Ningbo, China.

Opening show of Left Bank Art Museum,

Guangzhou, China.

Art & Wine, Guangzhou,China

2011, 5 Art Gallery, Guangzhou China.

Art & Wine, Tarragona, Spain.

2010, Anquins Gallery, Spain.

Art Karisurthe Fair,Germany.

2009, Caixa d’Art 09, Anquins Gallery, Reus, Spain.

La vida in 140 Sqm Gallery, Shanghai.

2007, La Escocesa Art Warehouse, Barcelona, Spain.

2006, La Escocesa Art Warehouse, Barcelona, Spain.

Solo exhibitions

2012, [ ]sencia, CiS Art Lodgers, Barcelona, Spain.

2011, East-Link Gallery, Shanghai, China.

Uatown Gallery, Beijing, China.

2010, Art Loft Gallery, Spain.

KM5 Gallery, Ibiza, Spain.

2009, Pellizzer & Partners, Studio of Castelfranco, Veneto, Italy.

AWARDS

1998, Painting May of 1998,

1st. award, University of Guangzhou.

University of Guangzhou Museum collection.

2009, Annual Young Artist Award,“CAIXA D’ART” Fund,

Barcelona, Spain.

Collaborations

1999-2001, painting Huizhou woman, theater play Huizhou

woman, traveling around China.

Entered to a private english collection.

2004-2007, artist Zheng Guogu cooperation with large format

paintings, exhibited in different galleries in France,

America and China.

Web page:

Yang Shun: www.icspace.org/yangshun

Hou Shanhu 候珊瑚

Her parents are both internationally renowned artists and professors from the Central Art Academy in China. Influenced by her parents, Shan hu has shown a strong talent and interest in painting from childhood.

In 1983, Shan Hu graduated with a BFA degree from the PLA Academy of Art in Beijing. Her art works have been selected by many national and regional art exhibitions and have won several awards. Some of her oil paintings were permanently collected by China’s National Museum in Beijing.

In 1995, Shan Hu came to New York where she spent two years emerging into the center of the art world. Her two-year study was fruitful, not only because she produced lots of new paintings, but she also absorbed new concepts and ideas that contributed to her contemporary approach.

In 1997 she moved to Orlando, Florida where she currently resides. The move significantly impacted Shan Hu’s painting style, especially by profound studies on both eastern and western culture. After 2005, Shan Hu positioned a main focus on abstract paintings rather than the realistic style from her earlier days. Since then, she has started her new journey within a majestic abstract world.

Web page

Hou Shanhu: www.houshanhu.com

Chen Zijun 陈子君

Chenghai of Guangdong Province, China.

2002, Graduated from Oil Painting Dept. of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and obtained bachelor’s degree.

2006, Graduated from Oil Painting Dept. of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and obtained Master’s degree, teacher at the Third Studio of Oil Painting Dept. at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Member of China Artists Association.

Collective exhibitions

2001, Research and Overstep, China Mini-Oil Painting

Exhibition, Art Museum, China.

2003, Third Select Oil Painting Exhibition of China,

Art Museum, China.

2005, Up and Down of the Great River, China Oil Painting

Retrospective, Art Museum, China.

2006, Spirit and Character, contemporary realist oil painting

Shanghai Art Museum, China.

2007, The First 100 Chinese Youth Oil Painting Exhibition

Shanghai Art Museum, China.

A-one, Artists Exchange Exhibition of China, Japan

and South Korea, Daegu, South Korea.

Fourth National Painting Academies Excellent Art

Exhibition, Wuhan, China.

2008, Sketching Oil Painting Exhibition of China,

Art Museum, China.

Third Beijing International Biennale,

Art Museum, China.

Contemporary Chinese Woman Painters

Shenzhen, China.

2009, Artists Group Exhibitions of Chinese Main Land,

Guan Xiang Art Gallery, Tai Wan.

2010, New Chinese 60th Anniversary,

Jeonbuk Province Art Museum, Korea.

Research and Exceed, small size oil painting,

Art Museum of China.

9th China Art Festival, National Excellent Artworks

GuangZhou Art Museum, China.

Image Mashup, Chinese contemporary oil painting.

Shen Zhen Art Museum, China.

Oil Painting Art and Contemporary Society,

National Art Museum, China.

Awards

2003, Gold Medal, 2nd. Contemporary Oil Painting

Art Exhibition of Guangdong, Guangzhou

Art Museum, China.

2004, Silver medal, 10th National Art Exhibition,

Art Museum of China.

2005, 1st Prize Art Award, Human and Nature,

of China Oil Painting Institution, China.

2nd Prize, Contemporary Landscape of Traditional

Chinese Painting & Oil Painting, Art Museum, China.

2009, Nomination Award,11th National Art Exhibition,

Art Museum, China.

Web page

Chen Zijun: http://chenzijun.artron.net/

He Guirui 何癸锐

Hadi He

Graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

in 2002

Solo exhibitions

2008, The Lane of Heart, Contemporary art Gallery,

Holland.

2011, Music of Spring, Si Guo Gallery, Japan.

Collective exhibitions

2012, Abstract China Women Art Exhibition,

Ning Bo 867 Culture Innovation Centre,

Ning Bo, China.

In and Outside of the Frame, Museum of

Contemporary Art in Beijing, China

5th Hang Zhou Contemporary Art Fair,

Hangzhou Peace Exhibition Centre , China.

What is the relation?, China Japan Contemporary

Art Exhibition, Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, China.

Tian Jin Abstract Art Exhibition, Tian Jin Academy

of Fine Arts, China.

2011, China Abstract Art Tour 2011,

Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China.

China Abstract Art Tour 2011,

Chang Sha Millennium Art Center, China.

China Abstract Art Tour 2011,

Hangzhou East Street No 6 Art Zone, China.

China Abstract Art Tour 2011,

ZhuoKe Art Net Gallery, Shanghai, China.

China Contemporary Art Exhibition,

Guangzhou Meilin Art Exhibition Hall, China.

International Abstract Art Nomination,

Beijing, China.

2010, Shenzhen Da Mei Sha, Coast Line

Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shenzhen, China.

Essence of South China,Guangdong

Contemporary Art Exhibition, China.

Guangdong Contemporary Art,

International Art Center, Delft, Holland.

Guangzhou Tai Gu Cang, Contemporary Art

Exhibition, Guangzhou,China.

2009, 1st. Guangzhou International Art Salon,

Guangzhou XIiaozhou Art Village, China.

PUBLICATIONS

New Abstract, Peng Feng edittion.

China Contemporary Art Document 2011,

Shao Qi edition.

China Young Artist, Peng Feng edition.

Width 5,Hu Zhenghuan edition.

Art Online, Magazine.

China Women Abstract Art, Eastern China Magazine

Public collections

Academy of Fine Art Museum. Guangzhou, China.

The Royal Danish Consulate in Guangzhou, China.

Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China.

ZhuoKeArt Net

Art blogs

http://blog.artintern.net/blogs/index/guirui

http://heguirui.artron.net/main.php?aid=A0260867

http://weibo.com/guiruihe

Web page

www.weibo.com/guiruihe

Victoria Rabal 维多利亚 拉宝

Solo exhibitions

2006, Ignacio de Lasaletta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
(catalogue)
2009, Anguilla anguilla, Carme Espinet Gallery,
Barcelona, Spain.
2010, Anguiles, Paqui Delgado Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
D’anguiles i d’altres peixos, MXespai10 Gallery,
Barcelona, Spain.
2011, Gyotaku, capturar l’ànima
dels peixos. Mercabarna, Barcelona, Spain. (catalogue)
AWARDS
1977, Raimon Maragall Youg Painting Award, Sala Parés,
Barcelona, Spain.
1982, Young Artists Grant, Spain Culture Ministry.
2008, Mestre artesà, Generalitat de Catalunya 2008.

Collaborations and editions

IAPMA, International Association of Papermakers and Artists,
Fundator and Member.
l’ACCA, Associació Catalana de Crítics d’Art, Honor Member.
Victoria Rabal 维多利亚 拉宝
Barcelona, 1958.
Fine Arts degree , UAB University, Barcelona, Spain.
Art History degree , UAB University, Barcelona, Spain.
Engraving degree,UAB University, Barcelona, Spain.
Engraving Courses, Urbino University. Italy.
Since 1982 is the Director of the Paper Mill Museum, Molí Paperer de Capellades, Spain.

Collective exhibitions

1975, Premi de Pintura Jove. Sala Parés, Barcelona, Spain.
1976, Premi de Pintura Jove. Sala Parés, Barcelona, Spain.
1977, Premi de Pintura Jove. Sala Parés, Barcelona, Spain.
1978, Premi de Pintura Jove. Sala Parés, Barcelona, Spain.
Pintors joves, Sala Vayreda, Barcelona, Spain.
Sala d’Art Jove, Barcelona, Spain.
1979, II Contemporary Painting Biennal, Barcelona, Spain.
1981, Mostra de Gravat, Manresa, Spain.
1982, Arteder’82 Gravats, Bilbao. Spain. (catalogue)
1983, Joan Miró Drawing Awards, Barcelona, Spain.
1984, Joan Miró Drawing Awards, Barcelona, Spain.
V Contemporary Painting Biennal, Barcelona, Spain.
Artistes Igualadins, Igualada, Spain.
1984, Carpeta de Gravats, Seny Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
1985, Art Paper, Estocolm, Sweden.
1986, I Internationale Biennale der papier Kunst, Düren,
Germany. (catalog)
1978, Els artistes i el paper, Museu Molí Paperer de
Capellades, Spain.
1990, European Paper Artists, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow,
United Kingdom. (catalog)
1994, Gravats, Sala Municipal, Igualada, Spain.
2003, Obra sobre paper, Can Festís, Sant Pere de Riudebitlles
Spain. (catalogue)
 2005, De la línea a la materia, Bunyol, Spain.(catalogue)
2006, Galería Paloma Mena, Madrid, Spain.
2007, Psicalipsis Art, N2 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
Art Paper, Castell de Grezels, France (catalogue)
2008, El retrato. Siglo XXI, N2 Gallery Barcelona, Spain.
2010, DelicARtessen, Esther Montoriol Gallery,
Barcelona, Spain.
2011, No son todos los que están, N2 Gallery,
Barcelona, Spain.
2012, Passant pàgina,artist books, traveling into Catalonia.
2010, Vilacasas Painting Award, Finallist, Barcelona , Spain.

 

Web Page

Victoria Rabal: www.victoriarabal.com

Maribel Mas 玛丽贝尔 马斯

Resident in Barcelona since 2000.
Since 2005 in her workshop Taller Esquina, works as printmaker and teacher in lithography, etching and woodcarving, and collaborate with museums and
art schools in projects related to print techniques since 2003, as the Aoya Kyoudokan Museum, Japan in activities during graphic works exhibitions, or in 2011 in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona with the woodcarving workshop Mokuanga to Washi on japanese papers in the program of the exhibition Secret Images.
In Caracas, between 1985 and 1989 studied graphic design in the IDC, etching and additive techniques in the TAGA, Graphic Workshop of Caracas. Participates in drawing workshops in the Kuadra Creativa in 1990 to 1992 and GAN, National Art Gallery of Caracas in 1997.
In Florence, Italy, at Lorenzo Di Medici Institute of Art
studied painting and silkscreen in 1998.
In Barcelona had specialized in stone lithography in the Llotja School of Arts and Crafts between 2001 and 2005. In these years had studied also ceramic in Industrial School of Barcelona and in the Bisbal Ceramic School.
Since 2008 she is represented by the Gallery Elan D’Arts, Paris: www.elandarts.com

Collective exhibitions

1992, Salón CANTV, Caracas, Venezuela.
1994, VII Exfilve, Philatelic Exhibition, Caracas
Contemporary Art Museum, Venezuela. (catalogue)
1998,Tito Salas Contemporary Art Gallery,
Caracas, Venezuela. (catalogue)
2000, Latin American Illustrators selection, 27th Ibby
Congress, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. (catalogue)
2002, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Aoya Kyoudokan
Museum, Japan. (catalogue)
Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Museu Molì
Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
2002, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Aoya Kyoudokan
Museum, Japan. (catalogue)
Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Museu Molì
Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
4 from Llotja, Quiosk Gallery, Tremp, Spain.
2006, Graphic Works on Arches Papers, Escola Llotja
Avignon section, Barcelona, Spain.
Calcografía Nacional Graphic Art Contest,
Zamora, León, Oviedo, Valladolid and Museo de la
Moneda, Madrid, Spain. (catalogue)
Honda Painting Awards, La Garriga, travelling to Girona,
LLeida and Tarragona. (catalogue)
2009, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Casa Cervantes de
Tokyo, Japan.
2010, Graphic Works on Inshu Paper, Centre de Artesania de
Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
2012, La Galería, Barcelona, Spain.
Barcelona European Art, Brocken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
20th International Print Triennial, Kracow, Poland.
2013, 20th International Print Triennial, Oldemburg, Germany.
Opole Contemporary Art Gallery, Poland.

Solo exhibitions

2012, Variations, lithography series 2011-2012,
Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.
2005, Cambra de la Propietat Urbana de Barcelona, Spain.
Andoh Gallery de Tottori, Japan.
Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.
2008, Enlaces, Museu Sant Pol de Mar, Spain. (catalogue)
Enlaces, Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
Enlaces, Taller Esquina, Barcelona, Spain.

Awards

1994, Theobaldo de Nigris, Graphic Art Award, First Prize,
Latin America Graphic Industry Association, Mexico.
2004, Aoya Kyoudokan Museum, Graphic works on Inshu
Washi papers, Fist Prize, Japan.
2006, Arches Papers Award, First Prize, Paris, France.

Collaborations and editions

1998, Silkscreen series, Art Studio Fuji, Florencia, Italy.
2002, Lithographic workshop, Aoya Kyoudokan Museum,
Japan.
2006, Etching series, ediciones Tinta Invisible, Barcelona,
Spain.
2008, Technical displays, Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain.
Lithographic workshop Museu Sant Pol de Mar, Spain.
2010, Lithographic workshop Massana Art School and
Facultad de Bellas Artes, UAB University, Spain.
2011, Japanese woodcarving courses and technical displays,
Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain.
2012, Woodcarving series, PlumBum Verlag,
Baumwollespinnerei, Leipzig, Germany.

Web page

Maribel Mas: www.maribelmas.com

Núria Rossell 奴丽亚 罗西

Graduated in Catalan Philology in UAB University, Barcelona, Spain,1990.
Soon she joined Marià Vigas drawing and painting classes in Sant Celoni (1975-1983). Later, she attended courses on History of Art at the UAB (1986-1988) and learnt new technics at the studio of Montse Clausells in Santa Maria de Palautordera (1997-1999). In 2000 she began using engraving thecnics at the workshop of Jordi Aligué in Cardedeu and started taking part in collective exhibitions with her own work. In 2003 she participated in the course New procedures and non-toxic materials in etching organized by the Museum of Granollers and the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. During 2003-2004, she was trained by Eva Figueras at the course Engraving with electrolytic methods and Photo-engraving at the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. In 2004 she met fellow etcher Clara Oliva at the etching workshop Artcontraprova in Barcelona, where she experimented with non-toxic etching and learnt new additive techniques. In May 2005 she joined the course Lithography on photosensitive offset plates run by etcher and graphic designer Antoni P. Vidal. In the same year, she inaugurated her painting and etching workshop in Sant Esteve de Palautordera (Barcelona).
In 2007 she attended a course in Introduction to contemporary art: from the avant-garde to new technology, directed by Neus Miró (Diputació de Barcelona).

Collective Exhibitions

2012, Actituds, La Massa Centre de Cultura, Vilassar de Dalt,
Spain.
Arts Libris, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain.
Beltaine Espai d’art, Barcelona.
2011, Quin és el teu paper?, Setba Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
Brancatges, Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell,
Spain.
Arts Libris, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain.
Libres d’artistes, Setba Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
Art VO. Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
Carpeta Idea, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Zona Zero.
Barcelona, Spain.
XIX Estampa International Fair, Madrid, Spain.
2010, Idea, Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona, Spain.
Detrás de las palabras, Hotel Anglí, Barcelona, Spain.
Libros de artista, Galería SETBA, Barcelona, Spain.
Libros de artista, Galería De-autor, San Lorenzo
del Escorial, Spain. 2009, Varios, Variopintos y Varatos,
Galería De-Autor, San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain.
Darrere les paraules, Sala de exposiciones La Rectoria
Vella. Sant Celoni, Spain.
Libros de artista, Galería De-Autor, San Lorenzo
del Escorial, Spain.
Objetos perdidos, Sala de Arte Contemporáneo Can
Xerracan, Montornès, Spain.
Libros de artistas, Galería SETBA, Barcelona, Spain.
Painting and Engraving, Eurostars Hotels, Cerdanyola
del Vallès, Spain.
2008, Hotel Cristal Palace, Barcelona, Spain.
Can Xerracan, Montornès les Vallès, Spain.
Artcontraprova, La Farinera del Clot, Barcelona, Spain.
2007, 4 dones interpreten plàsticament 4 dones, Centro
Cultural de Vilanova del Vallès, Spain.
Cancer Asociation Benefit Exhibition, Can Ramis.
Sant Celoni, Spain.
2006, Fundación Comaposada, Barcelona. Spain.
H-Original, Barcelona, Spain.
Tsunami Damages Benefit Exhibition, Can Ramis.
Sant Celoni, Spain.
Cancer Asociation Benefit Exhibition, Can Ramis.
Sant Celoni, Spain.
2004, Graphic Works, Vallgrassa, Centro Experimental de las
Artes. Parque Natural del Garraf, Spain.
Esquirol, Llinars del Vallès, Spain.
2003, Engravings, Ayuntamiento de Begues, Spain.
Engravings, Caixa de Manlleu. Sant Celoni, Spain.
Esgrafiados: Nuevas grafías, Ajuntament de Sant Celoni,
La Rectoria Vella, Spain.

Solo Exhibitions

2005, Gravados, Sant Esteve de Palautordera, Spain.
2006, Gravados, Sala de exposiciones Can Ramis. Sant
Celoni, Spain.

Collaborations

2007, Mural Painting of Pere Salinas in Sant Sadurní de
Montornès del Vallès, Spain.

Web page

Núria Rossell: www.nuriarossell.com

Rosa Solano 罗萨 索兰奴

Graduated at the School of Arts and Crafts,
1990, Barcelona, Spain.
Higher degree in textile art at Massana Art School, 2010, Barcelona, Spain.

Group exhibitions

1996, Sala de arte Giacometti. Manresa, Spain.
Group exhibition Nat’s. Manresa, Spain.
Exhibition l’Englantina. Bagà, Spain.
Enramades 96, Manresa, Spain.
Regional Museum, Igualada, Spain.
Manresa Artists Exhibition, Spain.
Cavateca Victòria. Manresa, Spain.
Petició de Blau, X-FAD at Otto Zutz and
Maremagnum, Barcelona, Spain.
1997, Enramades 97, Manresa, Spain.
Art Actual, Aula de Lletras, Luz de Gas,
Barcelona, Spain.
Sala d’Art Giacometti, Manresa, Spain.
Chairs of artists, Espai Blanc, Barcelona, Spain.
Painting Center, New York, USA.
Mad 28. New York. USA.
Bages Museum, Manresa, Spain.
Movi Space, Belgium.
Hogeschool, Mercator, Belgium.
2nd Sant Jordi Exhibition, Casa Elizalde.
Barcelona, Spain.
Art Actual ,Artistes Associats. Casa Elizalde.
Barcelona, Spain.
Ciutat Vella Open Workshops, Barcelona, Spain.
Compact Art , Galeria d’art 98, Cadaqués, Spain.
2001, Krononautas 2001, traveling to Reus and Tarragona,
Spain and Praça XV Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Ciutat Vella Open Workshops, Barcelona, Spain.
2002, Systems, Pere Gimferrer, Casa Elizalde,
Barcelona, Spain.
Ciutat Vella Open Workshops, Barcelona, Spain.
Crea-21, Barcelona, Spain.
Bazart Tour, travelling to Niça, Marsellille, Bordeaux,
Nantes, Lyon, Paris, Strasbourg and Berlin.
Ramón Vila Art Gallery, travelling to Marbella, Menorca
and Sitges, Spain.
Granero Art Gallery. Manresa, Spain.
2007, Ciutat Vella Open Workshops, Barcelona, Spain.
Art-Generation, Paris, France.
2008, Plaza Real Inspira, Setba Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
Setba Sinfonía, Setba Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

Solo exhibitions

2004, School of Arts and Crafts. Manresa, Spain.
Padam-Padam. Barcelona, Spain.
Art gallery Giacometti. Manresa, Spain.
La Florida Exhibition Hall, Alicante, Spain.
MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Montevideo, Uruguay.
Art Gallery Lola Anglada, Barcelona, Spain.
Una x Dia, Art Actual, Aula de Lletres, Barcelona, Spain.
Chapelle Saint Sulpice. Istres. France.
Art Gallery Bauman,Terrassa, Spain.
Theseo, Barcelona, Spain.
2005, Eurostars Cristal Palace, Hotel Barcelona, Spain.
2006, Theseo, Barcelona, Spain.
L’Atzart. Manresa, Spain.
2009, La Sala, Center of Contemporary Art, Spain.
2010, Entredos, Setba Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2000, IX Young Painters Biennial, Reus, Spain.
Juan Ramón Masaliver National Painting Award,
First Prize, Montacada Reixac, Spain.
2002, Juan Ramón Masaliver National Painting Award,
First Prize, Montacada Reixac, Spain. (catalogue)
Art Biennial, Honorary Mention, Museum of Modern Art,
Tarragona, Spain.
Nostromo Painting and Sculpture, 1st Award,
Barcelona, Spain.
XXV Minipaintings Contest, Elda, Alicante, Spain.
2009, XXIII Sanvisens Painting Competition,
2nd prize, Spain.
VIII Jean Fredereic Forest Painting Competition,
2nd prize, Calella, Spain.
La Sala Contemporary Art Center, Production Grant,
Vilanova. Barcelona, Spain.
IX Leandre Cristòfol International Painting Award,
1st prize, Fine Arts Circle of Lerida, Spain. (catalogue)
29th Vila de Cambrils Painting Contest, Finalist, Spain.
2010, VIII Mutxamiel Fine Arts Contest, Finalist, Spain.
VII Arena Foundation Award, Finalist, Vidal Alonso
Gallery, Spain.
30th Vila de Cambrils Painting Award, Finalist, Spain.
(catalogue)
2011, XIII Miquel Viladrich International Painting Prize,
Torrelameu, 1st Honorary Mention, Spain.
LXIX Centelles Painting Contest, 1st Honorary
Mention, Spain. (catalogue)
Villa Fuente Alamo National Painting Competition,
Finalist, Murcia, Spain. (catalogue)
XXV Sanvisens Painting Contest, Finalist, Sitges, Spain.
V Aguas de Barbastro Painting Contest,
2nd Prize, Spain.
XXVI Josep Pujol Bagaria International Painting Prize,
5th Honorary Mention, Spain.
2012, VI Art and Technology National Painting Contest,
Finalist, Getxo, Bizkaia, Spain.
VII First National Painting Contest, Finalist,
Zamora, Spain.
28th Màrius Carretero Miranda Painting Prize, 2nd
Honorary Mention, Lerida, Spain. (catalogue)

Collaborations

1990-1993, Javier Medina Campeny, sculptor assistant,
Palo Alto, Barcelona, Spain.
2002, Dynamite, works assigned to TV3 series,
starring Tricicle, Spain.
2006, El Terrat, works assigned to TV3 series starring by
Andreu Buenafuente,

Matilde Vela 玛丢德 维拉

Collective exhibitions

Since 1998 she has exhibited in Seattle, Vancouver, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Frankfurt, Valladolid, Barcelona, Roubaix, Berlin, Vic, Holguin, Gant, Bern, Guernica, Rio de Janeiro, Châtillon, Montreal, Palma de Mallorca, Macerata, Ripe San Ginesio and Scontrone.

Solo exhibitions

1994, Arcano, Barcelona, Spain.
1995, Teatro Pradillo, Madrid, Spain.
Magdalena Baxeras Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
1996, Art Actual, Aula de Lletres, Barcelona, Spain.
Pedra de toc, 2nd Sant Josep Contemporary Art Cycle,
Sant Josep L’Hospitalet, Spain.
Espace Culturel Jacques Coeur, Montpellier, France.
Espace Multimedia Francoise Mitterrand,
Tarascón, France.
1997, Theseo Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
D Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
1998, Sala Montserrat Roig, Instituto Català de la dona,
Barcelona, Spain.
1999, Fundació Caixa de Terrasa, Terrassa, Spain.
Edicions 491, Barcelona, Spain.
2000, Art & Schilling, Barcelona, Spain.
Galeria Eude, Barcelona, Spain.
2001, Galeria Boceto, Bilbao, Spain.
Galeria Art 72, Lleida, Spain.
Theseo Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2007, Materia primera, Sant Josep Contemporary Art Cycle,
Sant Josep L’Hospitalet, Spain.
2008, Painting and Sculpture C.C.Barradas,
L’Hospitalet, Barcelona.
2010, Confortel Bel Art, Barcelona, Spain.

Instalations

1996, Memoriam, installation, gardens of C.C. Tecla Sala,
Barcelona, Spain.
Memoriam II, permanent installation, Castroponce,
Valladolid, Spain.
Llibertat, Aula de Lletres, Barcelona, Spain.
1999, Terres, Arbres, Sensacions, Artimarc,
Cardedeu, Spain.
¿De quién es la Tierra?, Cia Naviera
Trasmediterránea, Barcelona Port, Spain.
2000, ...A los que aún están, Vitrines Café Schilling,
Barcelona, Spain.
2001, La inexistència del temps and ¿De quién es la
Tierra?, Tarragona Port, Spain.
Hi haurà prou tinta? NEWART, Barceló
Sants Hotel, Eude Gallery Barcelona, Spain.
2006, 58 acords per una harmonia, Can Castells,
Sala d’Art, Sant Boi, Spain.
La maté porque era mía, Centre Jujol,
Can Negre, Sant Joan D’Espí, Spain.
2007, A Baltasar Vela, En Memoria, A Yael
Languella, Aguantar el Chaparrón, Sant Josep
L’Hospitalet Cultural Center, Spain.
A Yael Languella, Per sempre més, Penjada Tu,
Penjada jo, Antoni Pinyol Gallery, Reus, Spain.

5+5 platform

five painters from Peking-Guang Zhou + five painters from Barcelona

The traveling exhibition 5+5 it is planned to be opened on Setba Foundation, located on Plaza Real in Barcelona, on march 7th until april 30th 2013. 
The 5+5 stone lithography case will be exhibited also at Arts Libris 2013 in the Santa Monica Art Center on april 20th to 23th at the Taller Esquina and Setba stand.
 

In september the works could be seen at the Molì Paparer de Capellades, and in October will travel to galleries in Peking, Shanghai and Hong Kong with the support in China of:

Antalis paper: antaliscn.com
CapiGo Investment Management Co. Ltd. Beijing
Guide Brand Consultant
UACC

five painters from Peking-Guang Zhou + five painters from Barcelona

Yang Shun 杨 舜
Chen Zijun 陈子君
Shan Hu Hou 候珊瑚
Qiu Hong 邱 虹
He Guirui 何癸锐
Matilde Vela 玛丢德 维拉
Victoria Rabal 维多利亚 拉宝
Rosa Solano 罗萨 索兰奴
Núria Rossell 奴丽亚 罗西
Maribel Mas 玛丽贝尔 马斯

Curator: Alex Mitrani

The 5+5 stone lithography case video

at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDpEihfzigY
and Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/55746579

My Fire Enwrapped within my paper

If possible, I would like to continue writing line after line until I fill this entire sheet of paper, then onto the next one… in that case, I would attain a projected rhythm and disposition in order to “complete towards a poem”. Rather than writing a foreword or commentary, this is an attempt to approach or capture the aura and spirit of these works on paper, along with these ten artists to stand on paper and sit around in a circle to dream.

Yes, paper is differentiated by raw or aged, characterized differently. Our shared feminine sensibility allow us to meet in the dream of dreams in the myriads of this world, needless to translate, or even speak, we would be able to share these vivid and rare outcomes, sweetness within bitterness, happiness within sorrow.
Whether paper is the medium, or a friend, or the enemy, it allows art to discover the physical existence of desire, arrival and emergence.

For Chen Zijun, these warm color tone acrylic is melting one’s material desire and the body, makes one associate it with the intimacy of childhood, the warmth and distance between people. On a thin paper, everything was transformed. For Matilde Vela, it was between the most rigid metal and the most irresistible paper, like a poetic androgynous being, ruined, minimal and impulsive; Yang Shun has found those crinkled mood and language between papers (parchment paper, handmade paper, and watercolor paper). Her work expands, delimits, floats, in muted silence, temperamental, like the dispersing smoke, or the fluid water; For Maribel Mas, the lithographic traces left on paper are full, its tension are restrained and subdued, as if the artist purposefully prevents the figure to escape from the crevasses of the paper and the lithographic plate; and both Rosa Solano and Victoria Rabal were more inclined to find a place to rest the soul within the objects. Rosa wishes everything returns to emptiness, and to use texture, structure and color blocks to deflect the humility of the heart, the isolation and modesty of the world view; On the other hand, Victoria Rabal who requires every rubbed objects to leave its most vivid figure on paper, to achieve an elegant and noble beauty like the figures and objects by Diego Velasquez, even though the property and functionality of the object has never been completely seen….

Qiu Hong’s world of ink painting seems tender, concise lines and rich colors, brilliantly highlights the beauty of the rice paper, like the Song dynasty verses, short lyrics, coated in dreamy papers, soaked with meaning; in comparison, Hou Shanhu’s ink language tends to be leisurely and meditative. The chaos and hatched beauty expressed through asexual diction in a wide area between rubbing and ink painting, seems to both mesmerizing and controlling of its tension. As for He Kuirui and Nuria Rossell, one paints meditatively to slate knives on paper, and the other patiently repeats and progresses in her details while being immersed with wild passion; one explores within the darkness of the self, and the other tightens every thread within the openness of Carmen；one breathes deeply in the shadow of the world, the other builds a totem of the minute objects within the faded color papers.

Everything, like what the female poet Wang Xiaoni has written long ago,
                “Alive between every breath
                on my paper
                that always enwraps my fire”

Returning to the paper, is also returning to this fire.
Either it’s dim or blazing, I am only one being part of it.
Therefore, what “she” is, has never been, or is only what other’s can perceive.


泡泡
Pao Pao