DESCRIPCIÓN OBRA PEDRO CUADRA
My paintings, coming from a common trunk and sharing the same genetic load, branch out into different lines of artistic research, keeping among themselves different degrees of consanguinity and an undeniable air of family. This close kinship between my works allows us to identify certain common features in them (configuring an extended family from blood ties that start from the same nucleus) but, at the same time, to distinguish peculiarities that underline the uniqueness of each one of them.
In my work I investigate the variables of painting itself, recurrently exploring and introducing in my pieces resources such as sweeps, changes of scale, repetitions, symmetries, focuses and/or blurs of contours and planes, etc. that generate a recognisable sign of identity; but what is important in my work is not only the final image and its execution but, above all, the process.
My figurative compositions, constructed from digital photomontages in which I resort to diverse sources, associate images that activate and deploy a particular symbolic imaginary - close to magical realism - provoking a paradoxically ”familiar” strangeness in the spectator.
Through my paintings I unfold a fictional story intuited and imagined in a sort of lucid dreams that I then translate plastically, drawing on local and global visual references, which I connect and recombine to produce an ambiguous discourse that requires decoding by the viewer and is open to multiple interpretations.
In short, I propose a round trip that transcends our own reality, making us part of an extended family in an archetypal and strange universe in which we can all recognise ourselves.
CV- Pedro Cuadra (Granada, 1972)
Graduate and Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada 2001. Teaching period of the Doctorate Programme ”Research in artistic creation: theory, techniques and their restoration”. 2003.
He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions (including the solo exhibition ”Libro de familia” Sala Pescadería Vieja de Jerez 2022 , ”Libro de familia” Sala Rivadavia (Cádiz) 2021, , ”De la misma materia” Meca (Almería) 2016, the selection of his project ”Organimiedades” in the programme ”Circuitos de arte joven” of Diputación de Granada in 2008, his participation in the exhibition ”Contemporary Expression from Granada” in Brussels in 2007 or the selection of his project ”Asfixia” in the Universia Stand of Arco 2001).
He has collaborated with Meca (Mediterráneo Centro Artístico) participating in different national and international exhibitions.
He has received several awards for his work such as the 3rd Prize in the Young Art Contest of the Granada City Council (2005), runner-up in the fast painting contest of the city of Murcia in 2011 and has been selected in numerous contests such as the Emasagra Painting Contest, Drawing Contest of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Painting on Paper Contest ”Artífice” (Loja), etc. Finalist for the Miquel Villadrich Prize 2015 and 2019. Finalist in the last 6 editions Paul Ricard Sevilla Prize 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 1st Honourable Mention in 2018 and 2019. Finalist Emilio Ollero Jaén Prize 2016 and 2019. Honourable Mention Zabaleta Painting Prize 2017 and 2018, Finalist 52nd Queen Sofia Painting Competition 2018, Finalist Gregorio Prieto Drawing Competition 2019.Finalist Painting Art Laguna Venice 2020.Finalist XXVI Painting Prize Algemesí 2020.Honourable Mention Painting Competition Centenary of the Legion 2020.Finalist 10th edition International Painting Prize on paper Olympic Barcelona Foundation 2020. Painting Prize in the ”Premios a la Creación Artística Diputación de Granada 2020”, Finalist in the Zabaleta Painting Prize 2021, Finalist in the Rafael Zabaleta International Painting Competition 2022, Finalist in the XXVIII Painting Prize 2021, Finalist in the ”Premios a la Creación Artística Diputación de Granada 2020”, Finalist in the Zabaleta International Painting Competition 2022. Finalist XXVIII Painting Prize Algemesí 2023.