Trenza redonda
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
46 x 27 cm
2007
Collares nº2
Collares nº2
Collares nº2
Collares nº2
Collares nº2
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
Collares nº2
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
Collares nº2
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
40 x 40 cm
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
Collares nº2
40 x 40 cm
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
Collares nº2
40 x 40 cm
40 x 40 cm
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
40 x 40 cm
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
2008
40 x 40 cm
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
2008
40 x 40 cm
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
2008
2008
2008
2008
40 x 40 cm
2008
40 x 40 cm
2008
2008
Trenza redonda
Trenza redonda
Trenza redonda
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
46 x 27 cm
46 x 27 cm
Encáustica y óleo sobre tela
46 x 27 cm
2007
2007
2007
From painting, I have always been attracted by the fact that with simple materials such as a brush, pigments and a canvas, one can create a space charged with its own soul/energy.
I have been experimenting with different techniques, being encaustic (virgin wax with resin of Damar worked in hot) together with oil and on canvas, with which I identify myself more and I have worked in my work. I started painting portraits of friends and self-portraits. After passing through the University of Fine Arts, with all the theoretical and technical content it entailed, I started the series Cuadrados as a need to simplify, so that the simple forms and color, invited to clean the look of so much visual and conceptual information with which we live.
The works of Landscapes and Volcanoes arise from a longing for horizons and distance, since in the city our eyes travel very short distances.
The series Collars and Spiders was born after being a mother and moving to the country: the care, the patience that develops when caring for a baby, the company of nature, together with the silence of living there, led me to paint these paintings that invite us to become absorbed in their small beads and plots so that we can rest, even for a moment, from ourselves.
Braids and Pollen are series that I painted aware that the theme I had chosen was difficult to transfer to the canvas: the communion of the human being and nature, of the earthly and the cosmic, of the visible and the invisible... of that intimate and necessary connection between all this that generates and feeds the creative and life itself and we tend to forget in the midst of our contemporary hustle and bustle.
In 2015, the EnMaLa Gallery in Lanzarote proposed me an individual exhibition and as I love that wonderful volcanic island, I painted Magma dedicated to it, where the sea, volcanoes and flowers are intermingled as a metaphor of creativity and Art.
Synchronies and Circles are two series that are again based on colour and simple forms. I am working on them in the hope of transferring to the canvas the sensation of flow, of continuous movement, of encounters and losses, of dark moments and bright moments that make up a life.
My work is not linear, I go and come back to these themes again and again through time, which makes them intermingled and thus complementary. That is why the presentation of the work on the web does not follow a chronological order nor is it grouped by series.
TRAJECTORY
Cristina Barrera is a Spanish painter. In 1981 she began her studies of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and continued at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cuenca where she graduated. In 1990 she creates the publishing house of art texts +-491 together with her partners of the artistic silk-screen printing workshop El Elefante Rojo.
Over the years he has had numerous individual and group exhibitions and his work has been exhibited in several editions of the ARCO Art Fair with the Moriarty Gallery.
He has lived in Madrid, Tokyo, Paris, Barcelona, Lanzarote and Lisbon.
In 2004 she moved with her daughter to a 19th century country house in a small town in Guadalajara, where she set up her painting studio.
In 2014, parallel to his artistic work, he develops the project of transforming part of the house into a rural hotel, La Casa Gavira: www.lacasagavira.com
She currently lives and works between Madrid and Guadalajara
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
MAGMA
Gallery EnMala.
Lanzarote-Spain.
2016
BRAIDS
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Sala de exposiciones del Teatro Alcazar.
Madrid- Spain.
2010
VOLCANOES
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Espacio de Arte Nab Room.
Madrid- España.
2002
NECKLACES AND SPIDERS
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Espacio 0034 LAB.
Madrid- Spain.
2008
LANDSCAPE/SQUARE
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Gallery Moriarty.
Madrid- Spain.
1996
ART FAIRS
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ARCO'01.Moriarty Gallery. Madrid.
DEARTE. Spanish Galleries Fair. Blanca Soto Gallery. Madrid, 2001
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ARCO'00. Moriarty gallery. Madrid ARCO'98 . Moriarty Gallery. Madrid.
ARCO´97 . Gallery of Art Moriarty. Madrid, Spain
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2017
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Modus Operandis Gallery
Madrid, Spain.
2006
Antonio Perez Foundation
Diputación de Cuenca. Cuenca, Spain.
1996
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Art Co Gallery
San Sebastián, Spain
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“XIII edition Premio Nacional de Pintura ADAJA”.
Ávila, Spain
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Musuri Gallery
“FLIPART”.
Madrid, Spain
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La Kabala
”Museo Portátil “
Madrid, Spain.
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1992
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Al-Andalus Gallery
”Pinturas”
Sevilla, Spain.
Sen Gallery
Serigraphy
Madrid, Spain.
2016
Arte21 Gallery
Almería. Spain
2014
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Enmala
Lanzarote, Spain.
2007
Openart
(II talleres internacionales de Arte Contemporáneo).
Zaragoza, Spain.
2001
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Fine Arts Cercle
"Homenaje a Fernando Múgica".
Madrid, Spain. 2001
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Art Gallery
"Sahara"
Almería. Spain
2000
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Acanto Gallery
”Gráfica Contemporánea 2” Almería, Spain
1997
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Comte Guell Palace
Barcelona, Spain.
1994
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la Kabala Gallery
"Museo portátil”
Madrid, Spain
1993
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“III Mostra Unión Fenosa” (Catálogo).
La Coruña, Spain
1995
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Paola Verrengia Gallery
“Dove ti porta il cuore?”
(Catalogue).
Salerno, Italy
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la Kabala Gallery
“Museo Portátil”
Madrid, Spain
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1991
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“IV Premios de Artes Plásticas Castilla –La Mancha “
Toledo, Spain
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Estrujenbank Gallery
”La Nada de la política-la Política de la Nada”
Madrid, Spain
1989
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Carmona Townhall
"Exposición colectiva José Arpa “
Sevilla, Spain.
1984
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Fine Arts Cercle
"Exposición talleres de Arte Actual".
Madrid, Spain.
Cultural Centre de la Villa
”Madrid-Madrid-“ (Catalogue). Madrid, Spain.
WORK IN
VICERRECTORATE of the UNIVERSITY of castilla la Mancha. Cuenca, Spain.
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF ELECTROGRAPHY. Cuenca, Spain.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART. Zaragoza, Spain.
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.
PRESS AND OTHERS
ARTICLE IN THE NEWSPAPER El PAIS about the exhibition "necklaces and spiders
POEM for the exhibition "Necklaces and spiders" by Cristina Barrera
INTRODUCTION to the exhibition "Necklaces and Spiders" by Cristian Dominguez
ARTICLE in ART TODAY
ARTICLE in NEO2 magazine
INTERVIEW in the program " la Otra" of channel 4
ARTICLE IN THE ABC MAGAZINE "EL CULTURAL