Fernando Velazquez
Fernando Velazquez was born in Seville in 1966. After spending a year in California, he moved to London in 1996 where he worked in his studio in Hackney until 2000. As a self-taught artist, Fernando Velazquez has developed a remarkable personal language, evident on his series “Paintings of the Floating World”, “Through the Veil” and recently “Cave Paintings of our Time”. Velazquez has exhibited individually in London, New York and Madrid and has participated in many exhibitions in galleries throughout Europe and America as well as at international art fairs. He has collaborated in a number of projects such as "The Ormeley Dinner, The Ecology Trust, The Aspinall Foundation and ‘Tusk Modern Art Auction’ in London. He has also received a number of commissions from private and public collections including Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery in New York for which he produced a monumental piece for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the birth of the iconic American composer George Crumb, a collaboration with ICE(International Contemporary Ensemble)at Symphony Space in Manhattan. “My work is a consequence of the anxiety to understand the world around me while trying to respond to the immense and unlimited current of our imagination. I paint to express the brutality and the beauty of life as I see it. I do not paint what I know, nor I search perfection...For me painting is revolution, epiphany and light within darkness. Art for me, seems to emerge from beauty, any kind of beauty that floods our senses, irrepressibly and inexplicably"
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