Manu Blázquez
Valencia, Spain, 1978
About
Lives and works in Valencia, Spain
Graduate in Fine Arts, Manu’s artistic research is characterized by the search for graphic and translation systems where the fundamental concepts of space and time are related.
His plastic work combines different disciplines, such as engraving, writing and painting; resorting mainly to the dialogue between geometry and arithmetic for the production of his work but also paying attention to certain blind places where moments of flight and parliaments of arbitrary lines are noticed.
At a conceptual level, his analysis can be related to artists who have used mathematical canons to develop their visual proposals and delve into procedural aspects linked to human programming. Artists such as Lewitt, Darboven, Cuvelier and Asins, among others.
Since 2013, his work has been shown in different individual and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Recently, he has participated in the artistic residency programs Kulturkontakt Austria (2018), Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2022) and Casa de Velázquez (French Academy in Madrid, 2022-2023).
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EDUCATION
BA in Fine Arts, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy (2009)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Pas de deux, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain (2021)
Ritmo etc. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain (2021)
V12-Canon 8.7, CAAM, Las Palmas, Spain (2019)
D759 in B minor, MuVIM, Valencia, Spain (2018)
Abundante Amigable Compuesto, BilboArte Foundation, Bilbao, Spain (2018)
Ensayo, Galería Paz y Comedias, Valencia, Spain (2017)
Fenicia, Centro Párraga, Murcia, Spain (2016)
Milímetro, Galería Paz y Comedias, Valencia, Spain (2013)
Pacifico, Museo Morandi-Mambo, Bologna, Italy (2010)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Bonavista 5, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona (2024)
REFLEJAR LA CASI NADA, Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain (2023)
Itinérance, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain (2023)
Opening night(s), Juliette Deschamps Studio, Madrid, Spain (2023)
Processi 149, Academia de España en Roma, Rome, Italy (2022)
Una historia del arte reciente, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Spain (2021)
La sociedad del rendimiento, IVAM, Alcoi, Spain (2019)
Premio Nacional de Dibujo DKV – Makma, ABC Museum, Madrid, Spain (2019)
Espais d’Art, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain (2018)
Working glass, Museo del Vidrio, Madrid, Spain (2018)
Intervallum, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain (2016)
Trazas, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain (2014)
