María Tinaut

About

Lives and works in Valencia, Spain

María Tinaut has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat Politècnica de València and a Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Her most recent body of work is articulated around the construction of a pictorial language without carrying out the direct exercise of painting. All the works use old mattress covers with striped motifs. The series was started in 2021 and the size of the first supports was that of individual beds, symbolically representing the present absence of an adult body in each work and forming pairs.

In these pieces, a transformation has occurred in the sizes, expanding or reducing the original textile materials to generate new formats. A painting action is carried out without paint, since the fabrics are dyed and bleached manually until they reach new shades. This procedure is an indirect form of painting that does not use the usual tools of the medium (a brush or brush as an extension of the hand of the artist), as it avoids the exercise of the pictorial gesture and action painting. In this way, abstract compositions become body when they are covered.

This re-painting remakes the rest space (the mattress) to transform it into a pictorial language based on all that vocabulary that was already there decades ago: striped patterns of different thicknesses, tones and directions, as well as the patches made on the fabrics.

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EDUCATION
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Madison, Maine, USA (2019)
MA of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA (2015-2017)
BA of Fine Arts, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain (2009-2014)
Akademie der Bildende Künste, Erasmus Programme, Munich, Germany (2013-2014)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
And September is clear and blue again, Galería Rosa Santos, Madrid, Spain (2023)
Sin título, y todavía verano, Galería Rosa Santos, Valencia, Spain (2020)
María Tinaut – Nestor Garcia, Galería Rosa Santos, Valencia, Spain (2020)
Fictive Certainties, De Novo Gallery, Washington DC, USA (2019)
Sobre la fotografía, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain (2019)
Room with a view, Rodriguez Gallery, Poznan, Poland (2017)
What might have been lost, Fifi Projects Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico (2017)
Memoria construida, María Tinaut – Cristina R.Vecino, Galería Javier Silva, Valladolid, Spain (2017)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Bonavista 5, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2024)
La ocupación. Carta blanca a Cabello/Carceller, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain (2023)
Dones per l’Art Colección DKV, Atarazanas del Grau, Valencia, Spain (2023)
Entre dos azules, Conmovidos, Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (2023)
Ones, waves, olas, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2023)
ARCO_Madrid, Galería Rosa Santos, Madrid, Spain (2023)
Fragmentos de cuerpos pasados que brillan tenuemente y luego se desvanecen, Galería Rosa Santos, Madrid, Spain (2023)
ARCO_Madrid, Galería Rosa Santos, Madrid, Spain (2021)
Premios Senyera, Las Atarazanas, Valencia, Spain (2021)
Las palabras azules, Pas Une Orange, Barcelona, Spain (2021)
ARCO_Madrid, Galería Rosa Santos, Madrid, Spain (2020)
XXI Encuentros de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo de la Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain (2020)
Estampa Art Fair, Galería Rosa Santos, Madrid, Spain (2020)
Homegrown, Galería Hauser & Wirth, Online (2020)
ARCO_Madrid, Galería Rosa Santos, Madrid, Spain (2019)
The Third Space, CreArt, Touring Exhibition, Croatia, Italy, France (2019)
Catástrofes de 2a especie, Espai Rambleta, Valencia, Spain (2018)
Untitled, Gallery Rainbow, New York, USA (2018)
O*B+ (Otra Puta Bienal Más), Galería 6mas1, Madrid, Spain (2018)
The Sun Shits Out a Dying Light, Which We Eat to Stay Alive, CDMX, Mexico (2017)
Je est une autre, The Vernacular in Photobooks, International Center of Photography Library, New York, USA (2017)
ArteSantander, Rodriguez Gallery, Santander, Spain (2017)
Whateverbeing, Present Company, Brooklyn, New York, USA (2017)
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA (2017)
Aural Fixation, FAB Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA (2017)
Bête Noire, SCAN, Musart, Berlín, Germany (2017)
SWAB Art Fair, Rodriguez Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2016)
The heat goes on where the hand has been, Richmond, Virginia, USA (2016)
Presente (Presente) IV Edición, Madrid, Spain (2016)
This Just In, The Depot Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA (2015)
XVII Open Call, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain (2015)