Félix de la Concha (born 1962) is a painter. Born in León, Spain, he resides in Iowa City and Madrid.
In 1985 he was selected to participate in the Primera Muestra de Arte Joven (Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid) where his work was awarded. Since then he has had several shows, mainly in Europe and the United States, including one person exhibitions in the Columbus Museum of Art (1998), Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (1999), Hood Museum of Art (2009), the Frick Art & Historical Center (2004), Museo de Bellas Artes in Santander (1995), Museo del Chopo, México D.F. (1994), Centro Cultural La Recoleta in Buenos Aires (1993), and Centro Rómulo Gallegos in Caracas (1993).
His work One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning, a series that he painted every day during one year while staying in Pittsburgh, is a permanent exhibit at the University of Pittsburgh's Alumni Hall. He has also done other series of paintings in different places such as Rome (the city where he went with a scholarship granted by the Spanish Academy and where he lived from 1989 until 1994), Santander, Seville and Cairo.
He has focused on a particular format of portraiture. It can be seen in video the sitter talking, and the painting evolving from blank canvas to the very conclusion of the work. As painted neither from photographs neither from previous sketches, and usually with a single session (alla prima), eventual errors are keen to him. He introduces the term pictorial anacoluthon, going back to the Greek origin of the term anacoluthon (meaning inconclusive) and its rhetorical use: As with spoken language, there will be mistakes, both in the portrait’s symmetry, and in its sense of completeness. However, what may be considered, at first, a formal mistake may also be a form of expression. [1] However he accomplishes accurate detail.
The first of this series was exhibited at the Museo Contemporáneo de Madrid in 2008.[2]
51 portraits were exhibited at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, with the theme of Conflict and Reconciliation in 2009.[3]
He is currently working portraying and recording Holocaust survivors.[4]
More recently, he has become interested in portraits with music and synaesthesia, as his performance with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.[5]
On Fallingwater En Perspectiva he accepted the invitation to an extended residency with unprecedented access to the building and grounds.[6][7][8]
List of exhibitions
One man shows
2013
Panorama WBZ. Through the Looking-Glass Permanent installation at the Executive Campus of the University of St. Gallen. St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Christian Roellin Gallery. St. Gallen, Switzerland.
2012
Performance with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, Ohio.[9]
Fallingwater En Perspectiva. Concept Art Gallery. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2011
Portraits With Conversation: Fifty Writers With Anacoluthon.Museo Casa de Cervantes. Valladolid.
2010
Perspective and Location. BigTown Gallery. Rochester, Vermont.
La historia más larga de Bilbao jamás pintada. Galerías Epelde Mardaras & Catálogo General, Bilbao.
2009
Public Portraits/Private Conversations. Hood Museum of Art and Baker Memorial Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.[10]
Park Well. Galería Trama. Barcelona.
Melvin Gallery. Florida Southern College. Lakeland, Florida.
2008
Nueva Inglaterra. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid.
Retratos con conversación. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid.
Fallingwater En Perspectiva. The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg.
2007
Fallingwater En Perspectiva. The Barn at Fallingwater, Pennsylvania.
2006
Penn at Braddock. Concept Art Gallery. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2005
Visiones de Nueva Inglaterra. Cooler Gallery. White River Junction, Vermont.
Sala Luzán. Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada. Zaragoza.
2004
Awarded artist in the 17 Bienal de Zamora. Museo Etnográfico de Castilla y León, y Fundación Rei Afonso Enriques, Zamora.
A Contrarreloj. A Race Against Time. The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Museo Gustavo Maeztu, Estella.
Galería Dieciseis. San Sebastián-Donosti.
ARCO'04. Galería Dieciseis, Madrid.
2003
Farewell to Pittsburgh. Concept Art Gallery. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[11]
2002
Galería Artnueve, Murcia.
Lonja del Pescado. Ayuntamiento de Alicante, Alicante. Curator: Pedro Alberto Cruz.
Galería Lourdes Carcedo, Burgos.
Pittsburgh, Galería Marlborough Madrid, Madrid.
2001
Penn Avenue, from Pearl Street to Gross Street. Garfield Artworks. Presented by The Penn Arts Initiative (PAAI). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Diario de la Habana. Centro Cultural Español. Miami, Florida.
2000
One A Day. 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning. Alumni Hall (the old Masonic Temple). University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1999
Columbus. Galería Antonio Machón, Madrid.[1]
One A Day. 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning. Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Curator: Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Mark Francis.
Doble-Double. Concept Art Gallery. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1998
El espíritu del lugar. Galería Rafael Ortiz, Seville.
Columbus Cornered. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. Curator: Annegreth Nill.
1997
Fuera de campo. Galería Siboney, Santander.
1996
Borderline. Galería Fúcares, Madrid.
Escenarios para una larga temporada. Galería Antonio Machón, Madrid.
1995
Veraneos en Santander. Museo de Bellas Artes. Santander. Curator: Juan Riancho.
El cuadro grande no cabe en el coche. Galería Fúcares, Almagro.
Ciriego. Espacio Caja Burgos, Burgos.
1994
Museo Universitario del Chopo, México D.F.
Despliegues. Sala Cultural Caja España, Zamora. Sala San Torcuato de Caja España, Zamora. Casa de Cultura, Junta de Castilla y León. Galería Cirac, Zamora.
Despliegues. Sala Cultural, Caja España, Valladolid.
Despliegues. Casa de las Carnicerías de Caja España. Sala Cultural de Caja España, León.
Galería Maese Nicolás, León.
1993
Centro Cultural Español, Santiago de Chile.
Sala Rómulo Gallegos del CELARG, Caracas.
Galería Antonia Jannone, Milán. Text by Martina Corgnati.
Centro Cultural La Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
Museo Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario-Argentina.
Sala del Cabildo, Montevideo.
Paesaggio di Passaggio. Temple Gallery, Rome.
1992
Nueve Meses en Donna Olimpia. Galería Gamarra y Garrigues, Madrid.
1991
One day exhibition of Nove Mesi a Donna Olimpia. Cortile di Donna Olimpia, Rome. Text by Ludovico Pratesi.
Galería Clave, Murcia.
1989
Galería Gamarra y Garrigues, Madrid. Text by Juan Hidalgo.
1988
ARCO'88. Galería Estampa, Madrid.
1986
Galería Estampa, Madrid.
Works in museums and public collections
University of St. Gallen. St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. USA
Hood Museum of Art. Hanover, New Hampshire. USA.
Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire. USA.
La Pedrera. Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona. Spain
Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Zaragoza. Spain.
Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA.
Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
Lonja de Alicante. Ayuntamiento de Alicante, Alicante. Spain.
The University of Pittsburgh’s Alumni Hall (previously the Masonic Temple), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA.
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. USA.
Colección La Caixa, Colecció Testimoni, Barcelona. Spain.
Teatro Real, Madrid. Spain.
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Madrid, Madrid. Spain.
Museo d'Arte Costantino Barbella. Italy.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander. Spain.
Colección Saldañuela, Caja Burgos, Burgos. Spain.
Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid. Spain.
Ministerio de Defensa, Madrid. Spain.
Ayuntamiento de Albacete, Albacete. Spain.
Consejería de Cultura de Murcia, Murcia. Spain.
Colección Campsa. Madrid. Spain.
Colección Banco de España, Madrid. Spain.
Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. Spain.
References
Portraits with Conversation. Digital Library University of Iowa
El arte que habla. Diario El País. April 20, 2008
Public Portraits/Private Conversations. Hood Museum of Art y Baker Memorial Library
Portraits and stories from the Shoah. The American Jewish World. March 13, 2013
Performance with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Felix de la Concha offers an impressive exhibit of paintings of one building: Fallingwater. Pittsburgh City Paper. December 28, 2011
Spanish artist de la Concha captures various moods of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater masterpiece. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 2, 2007
Fallingwater En Perspectiva
Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Pictures at an Exhibition
Audio Interview on Fallingwater
Spanish artist again brushes up on his view of the city. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 4,2003
External links
Panorama WBZ. Through the Looking-Glass (Video interview)
Review in Tagblatt on Panorama WBZ. Through the Looking-Glass (German)
Review in Tagblatt on the St. Gallen Clock (German)
Project with the Toledo Museum of Art and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Broadcast performance with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. WGTE Public Media
The Longest Story of Bilbao Ever Painted (Trailer)
The Longest Story of Bilbao Ever Painted (on TV)
Portraits of Holocaust Survivors
Nueva Inglaterra. Paintings exhibit at Galeria Leandro Navarro in Madrid
Portraits with conversation project in Spain/ exhibit
Fallingwater En Perspectiva website
Fallingwater En Perpectiva paintings
Review on Fallingwater En Perspectiva
Audio Interview on Fallingwater
Bio of Félix de la Concha from Fallingwater En Perspectiva exhibit
Review on A Contrarreloj exhibition
Review on One A Day. 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning
Review on One A Day. 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning
Review on Farewell to Pittsburgh
Review on Double-Doble
Review in El País (Spanish)
Review in ABC (Spanish)
Review in ABC (Spanish)
Interview in Ambito Cultural (Spanish)
Review in Revista de Arte (Spanish)
Article on his solo show at ARCO '04 (Spanish)
Article in Corriere della Sera (Italian)
Review on painting Holocaust Survivors
Listen, Look, Likeness: examining the portraits of Félix de la Concha ArtsEditor.com article
Digital collection featuring Félix de la Concha's portraits and corresponding audio and video interviews.
Private Portraits/Public Conversations. Hood Museum of Art
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