Who is Javier?

STATEMENT

My work revolves around the retention and fixation of reality, of a selected reality, and as far as possible, exciting.

Every vision, as spectators, of the real or the fictitious, entails an emotional reaction on our part. My intention is the creation and/or perpetuation of this emotion, as a way of overcoming the primal anguish in the face of change and disappearance, of an elusive reality.

Every photograph we take, supposes that there is an image that represents a significant moment of our life, supposes a fixation.

Since we take the greatest number of photographs of life, of the closest generations in time, we understand that we have the greatest pregnance to everything that happens to us and passes, and that we also have the greatest sense of individualism, almost everything that happens to us is susceptible to being remembered.

Unfortunately, this also causes the truly important moments to dilute, we cannot maintain the same consideration for all events.

For all these reasons, I see in art the revitalization of the really significant moments, for their investment in time, materials and emotion, of the people and spaces that pass through my life, that are especially meaningful to me, or that give up their person for it.

These significant elements, even if they are from my experiences, which are less and less private, also say a lot about the society and culture in which I find myself.

Although the cultural times of Greek or Roman mythology, Christian mystifications, Renaissance beauty, historical paintings or ideological representations have passed, how is it that we do not long to visualize a body in the fullness and vitality of its youth, as a memory of what we were, or how is it that we do not want to see the inner history of an elderly person, with the vicissitudes carved into their skin?

We can continue to invent realities and spaces through theories, philosophies and graphic languages, but figurative re-presentation, now linked to photographic technique, is installed in the core of our imaginative presentations, and I subscribe to this field.

I am a painter of the real, with whatever ambiguity this statement may imply. Reality that is always interpretable, changing, and that is moderately captured thanks to the rules and tricks established over centuries of representation, composition, color, lighting, and also new artifacts, reinforcing the value and belonging to this culture of ours.

EXHIBITION HISTORY

Javier Arizabalo García

B. April 6, 1965 - Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France. Lives and works in Irun, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

Education:

1988–1989 Teaching certificate, University of the Basque Country (UPV), San Sebastián, Spain.

1983–1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in engraving, University of the Basque Country (UPV), Leioa, Biscay, Spain.

Work experience:

1996–1999 Painting teacher at the Municipal Academy of Irun, Irun, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

MuseumExhibitions:

2019 Permanent Exhibition, Museo Europeo de Arte Moderno (MEAM), Barcelona, Spain.

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 Viendo al ser humano, Sala Vaquero Poblador, Badajoz, Badajoz, Spain.

2012 Javier Arizabalo, Centro cultural AMAIA, Irun, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

2011 Javier Arizabalo, Asamblea de Extremadura, Mérida, Badajoz, Spain.

1989 Javier Arizabalo, La Pecera Gallery, Irun, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

Group Exhibitions:

2023 Light and Color, ARGAR Gallery, Almería, Almería, Spain.

2022 Al desnudo, Phtalo azul Art & Gallery, Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

Cats, Two Art Gallery, Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

GroupExhibition, Armi Gallery, Vera Navarre, Spain.

Homenaje al Realismo
Español, La Lonja de Arganzuela, Madrid, Spain.

Pakistan Art Forum
Collectors’ Soiree, Pakistan Art Forum’ 22, Lahore, Pakistan.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France.

2021 Esencias de lo real, Phtalo azul Art & Gallery, Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

Arte y Ciencia del siglo XXI, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), Madrid, Spain.

Realismo eres tú..., Murallas Reales, Ceuta, Spain.

I grandi Maestri del Realismo internazionale in20x20, Palazzo Einaudi, Chivasso, Italy.

Arte sin fronteras EUROARTES, Sala José Caballero, Punta Humbría, Huelva, Spain.

PermanentExhibition, Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France.

2019 Sansiri x The IBEX Collection, Sanriri Sales Gallery, Hongkong, China.

Sansiri x The IBEX Collection, Sanriri Sales Gallery, Siri House, Singapore, Singapore.

Habbility, Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos de Estepona, Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

20x20, Galeria Artelibre, Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

Only for your eyes, OCCO Gallery, Estepona, Málaga, Spain.

LADIES, 37 mujeres y un
pollo, Two Art Gallery, Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

BARRO MADERA Y SANGRE, Two Art Gallery, Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

XII Encuetro arte sin fronteras EUROARTES, Palacio Pedro I, Torrijos, Toledo, Spain.

Pakistan Art Forum Collectors’ Soiree, Pakistar Art Forum, Lahore, Pakistan.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France.

2018 Encontrarte, Galería Santana Art, Madrid, Spain.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France.

2017 Nueva Realidad, Fundación Arcilla, Sala Emilio Varela, Alicante, Alicante, Spain.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France.

2016 Group Exhibition, Armi Gallery, Hondarribia, Spain.

Otra Realidad, Fundación Arcilla, Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Géneros, Galería Arte Actual Mexicano, Monterrey, Mexico.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France.

2015 Reunir lo disperso y difundir el arte, Acuarium de San Sebastián, San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

Otra Realidad, Fundación Arcilla, Centro Cultural La Vaguada, Madrid, Spain.

2014 Group
Exhibition, Galería Mellado, San Lorenzo del Escorial, Madrid, Spain.

9 VISIONES 9 LECTURAS, Galería Arte Actual Mexicano, Monterrey, Mexico.

Group Exhibition, Perez & Ortiz Fine Art, Santiago de Chile, Chile.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France.

2013 Permanent Exhibition, Galería Mellado, San Lorenzo del Escorial, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France.

2012 Algo mas que realismo VI, Agrupación Artística Aragonesa, Galería Artelibre, Zaragoza, Spain.

Permanent Exhibition, Galería Mellado, San Lorenzo del Escorial, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Archange, Paris, France.

2011 Exposición Colectiva de Navidad, Galería Mellado, San Lorenzo del Escorial, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Archange, Paris, France.

2010 Group Exhibition, Galeria Gaudi, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Archange, Paris, France.

2009 Algo mas que realismo III, Agrupación Artística Aragonesa, Zaragoza, Spain.

Group Exhibition, Galería Colours, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Archange, Paris, France.

2008 Group Exhibition, Galería Gaudí, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Group Exhibition, DE-Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Group Exhibition, Zantman Art Galleries, California, United States.

Group Exhibition, David W. Streets Gallery, California, United States.

Algo mas que realismo II, Agrupación Artística Aragonesa, Zaragoza, Spain.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Archange, Paris, France.

2007 Group Exhibition, Art & Pur Fer Creations, Paris, France.

Permanent Exhibition, Galerie Archange, Paris, France.

Art Fairs:

2021 ARTLIFE FEST, Moscow, Russia.

2013 Art Santa Fe, Galería Gaudí, New Mexico, United States.

Feria ARTEANDO, Galería Gaudí, Irun, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

2012 Art-Karlsruhe, Galeria Gaudí, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Feria ARTEANDO, Galería Gaudí, Irun, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

ST-ART 2012, Galería Gaudí, Strasbourg, France.

2011 ARTi11, Galería Gaudí, The Hague, Netherlands.

The Shanghai Art Fair, Alexander Gallery, Shanghai, China.

2009 Feria Puroarte, Galería Gaudí, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain.

Glasgow Art Fair, Galería Gaudí, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Art Open Fair, Galería Gaudí, Utrecht, Netherlands.

2008 Kunstart08, Galería Gaudí, Bolzano, Italy.

Lineart 08, Galería Gaudí, Ghent, Belgium.

2007 Feria de Arte Artz, Galería Gaudí, Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

Awards:

2023 The Almenara Art Price 2023, Figurative Honorable Mention, Córdoba, Spain.

2014 Cofrade de Honor, Cofradía del Salmón, Irun, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

2006 Adour Bidasoa (Second Prize), Ayuntamiento de Irun, Irun, Gipuzkoa, Spain.

Commissions:

2016 Ibex Masters Collection, Germany.

Public Collections:

Ibex Masters Collection, Germany.

Collections by Country:

⁃ Argentina

⁃ Australia

⁃ Brazil

⁃ Canada

⁃ Chile

⁃ France

⁃ Germany

⁃ Greece

⁃ Holland

⁃ Ireland

⁃ Italy

⁃ Kuwait

⁃ Mexico

⁃ Pakistan

⁃ Paraguay

⁃ Portugal

⁃ Russia

⁃ Saudi Arabia

⁃ Spain

⁃ Türkiye

⁃ United States

BiOGRAPHY

Barcelona 2016, participants in IBEX MASTERS

Workshop at the "Casa Estudio del Bosque", in Mexico

Exhibition with the Arcilla Foundation

Assembly of Extremadura, 2011

Assembly of Extremadura, 2011

Galerie Artmundi, Paris

Javier Arizabalo García

B. April 6, 1965 - Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France.

His first memories of crafts were in preschool, in the French town of Hendaye. There, he took refuge in working with his hands in an environment that seemed strange to him. Soon his parents moved him to Irún, Spain, to begin his education.

Seeing his mother’s sensitivity in making some small paintings, and in some books about art that were in his parents’ house, he came into contact with art.

Irún is the region where he lives with his family, it is a special place as it is the intersection of roads between Spain and France.

It is a prosperous town, with an international atmosphere, with a small but thriving artistic activity. In it, glass and porcelain artists together with the activity of galleries in the neighbouring town of Hondarribia, are an attraction for painters and illustrators. Also in this area coexists a group of artists, mainly sculptors, of the Basque sculptural avant-garde.

All this allowed Javier to join, from the early age of nine, the municipal drawing classes, and to attend craft and painting classes with artists from the city.

During these years of childhood and youth, Javier has contact with artists and illustrators of various styles. He practices drawing from life, and begins to learn different painting techniques.

At the age of 18 he begins his studies of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Leioa, near Bilbao, finishing five years later, specializing in Graphic Techniques, although during that period he continues to attend painting sessions with a life model in Irún.

In 1989 he begins to work in a small advertising agency, near San Sebastian, doing what was called final art, design and layout, and occasionally illustration, and at the same time he continues to make paintings and drawings in his free time. At this time he ventures into 3D, and increases his knowledge of photography, now digital, in the first years of the new millennium.

In 2005 he quit his job and began to move towards a more artistic activity. He was undecided about whether to dedicate himself to photography or painting, but opted for the latter, taking into account his greater degree of training in it.

Based on his artistic training, what attracts him is classical painting, baroque painting, late impressionism by artists such as Joaquín Sorolla or John Singer Sargent, photorealism and the realism practiced in contemporary painting in Spain. His first steps will be in the creation of classical figure paintings.

Professionally, he began with the Archange Gallery in a well-known Parisian square full of galleries, to which he sent works of figures, generally female, and a series of baroque-illuminated hands. In them he combines his ease of drawing with his admiration for the classical nude and chiaroscuro lighting.

In addition to this French gallery, he has other collaborations with Spanish and some Mexican galleries.

In 2015, he joined the Ibex Collection project, along with more than twenty artists, to create a Masterpiece, to be exhibited in a unique location. The project underwent modifications and its

original proposal was abandoned, but Javier completed the painting, which took almost a year to complete, the artist’s most ambitious project to date.

His painting work is complemented by painting classes through weekend or full-week workshops in different locations in Europe and America, as well as video tutorials with a well-known training platform.

The three main areas of his work are distributed among collaboration with galleries, mainly in Mexico, commissions and sales to individuals, which come from his dissemination on social networks, and finally his teaching work, in face-to-face workshops.

Among his different lines of paintings we can find a small format line, focused on details of the human face, and another line focused on academic nudes, outdoors and indoors, with few accessory elements, such as fabrics and hats. The male works are divided into those that highlight anatomy, and those that represent people of a certain age, as an example of the passing of the years and the vicissitudes. At some specific times he may do some still lifes.

Books and Catalogues:

Individual:

2024 Viendo al ser humano, Diputación de Badajoz (56 p.), Badajoz, Spain.

2012 Javier Arizabalo, Ayuntamiento de Irun (16 p.), Irun, Spain.

2011 Javier Arizabalo, Asamblea de Extremadura (148 p.), Mérida, Spain.

2008 Javier Arizabalo, Tableaux · Paintings · Pinturas, Galerie Archange Éditions (32 p.), Paris, France.

Group:

2022 Realismo eres tu, Edita Ciudad autónoma de Ceuta, (Cover and p. 23-24) Ciudad atónoma de Ceuta, Spain.

2019 Grandes pintores realistas en 20x20, Galería Artelibre. (p. 98). Zaragoza, Spain.

2012 Anuario Artelibre, Arte y Libertad VII, Galería Artelibre. Zaragoza, Spain.

2011 Anuario Artelibre, Arte y Libertad VI, Galería Artelibre. (p. 122-123), Zaragoza, Spain.

2010 Anuario Artelibre, Arte y Libertad V , Galería Artelibre. (p. 48-51), Zaragoza, Spain.

2009 Anuario Artelibre, Arte y Libertad IV, Galería Artelibre. Zaragoza, Spain.

2008 Anuario Artelibre, Arte y Libertad III, Galería Artelibre. Zaragoza, Spain.

Articles:

2022 El artista se hace en el momento de la acción con la materia, El Economista, Mexico.

2022 Art Market Magazine (April) 2022, Issue #69, (cover and p. 4-5, 12-19), United States.

2022 Editors´s FAV, Art Market Magazine (December) 2022, Issue #76, United States.

2020 ARTE TATTOO & PIERCING (November) 2020, Nº 52 (p. 28-38), Argentina.

2020 Revista OPHELIA (June) 2020, Nº 3 (p. 13-16), Argentina.

2020 Photos..or work of Hand Going, DAILY MIRROR (May, 05) 2020 (p. 25), United Kingdom.

2017 Art Galaxie, Masters of Painting - Volume 1, By Pedro Boaventura (p. 64-67), United States.

2013 Post-Modern Times - Volume 1, (June) 2013, issue #1, The Birmingham Free Press, (p. 3, 64-65), United Kingdom.

2010 JAVIER ARIZABALO, Poets and Artists (December), Editor: Didi Menéndez, United States.

BiBLIOGRAPHY

MEDIA

WiF Watch it First

Javier Arizabalo: El realismo en el arte contemporáneo

July 26, 202

Article

Milenio

Héctor Díaz transforma la industria artística

April 6, 2024

Article

HECTOR DIAZ Gallery

Javier Arizabalo | Deep talk | HECTOR DIAZ

February 1, 2024

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Legisladores de México

Las obras de grandes artistas: contemporáneo, internacional y universal

December 3, 2023

Article

Legisladores de México

Javier Arizabalo: “En el arte nunca llegaremos a lo perfecto; los obsesivos lo buscan”

November 20, 2023

Article

AATONAU

Javier Arizabalo Garcia: Crafting Realism With Passion And Precision

September 23, 2023

Article

Milenio TV

Group Exhibition “Ineffable”

August, 2022

El Economista

“El artista se hace en el momento de la acción con la materia”

September 8, 2022

Article

Conciencia Pública

«Son las personas las que le dan sentido a las obras; vivimos en el arte»: Javier Arizavalo

August 14, 2022

Article

MY MODERN MET

Estas pinturas hiperrealistas desafían la noción de que las manos son lo más difícil de recrear

April 25, 2020

Article

Teledonosti - Canal Txingudi

VERSION DEL ARTE JAVIER ARIZABALO

April 8, 2020

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Teledonosti - Canal Txingudi

VERSION DEL ARTE JAVIER ARIZABALO

July 18, 2016

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diariovasco.tv

Obras de Javier Arizabalo en Asamblea de Mérida

April 25, 2011

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WORKS IN

Héctor Díaz Gallery, Jalisco, Mexico ( https://hectordiaz.art )

Two Art Gallery, Murcia, Spain ( https://www.twoartgallery.com )

Galerie Artmundi, Paris, France ( https://www.galerieartmundi.com )

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