Obra de Meseguer en la apertura de la Galería ENMALA / Paintings by Meseguer on the opening at ENMALA Gallery

Mañana , 8 de Marzo 2014, a las 18.00 pm, en la Galería ENMALA, ubicada en Mala, Haría.

Tomorrow, March 8, 2014, at 18.00 pm in the ENMALA Gallery, located in Mala, Haria.

ESQUINAS DE AGUA EN NAVIDAD. Las Palmas y Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Estas Navidades obra de pequeño formato, ESQUINAS DE AGUA, en la galería Cuadro de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria y en el Círculo de Bellas Artes, de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

MARINE VISION: INTERVIEW by CANARIASCREATIVA / VISION MARINA, ENTREVISTA PARA CANARIAS CREATIVA

Entrevista de Canarias creativa, en el enlace pueden ver además una selección de obras
       ENTREVISTA EN ESPAÑOL

ENGLISH VERSION:

Nuria Meseguer inundates the viewer of his works with a clear and cool underwater image . Her works evoke a serene , silent and complicit as she seeks calm atmosphere of who has the ability to breathe underwater.

Good afternoon and thank you very much . For those who don't know who is Nuria Meseguer and how we arrived at this vital moment ?

Good afternoon and you are welcome ;)

It is difficult to define oneself , only four illuminated in history knows who have been ... but in general terms a utopian dreamer who wants to experience the most intense and genuinely the only life we remember, and that means to live according to the values ​​that are important to me ... that brings me to this moment in life . Create , to paint is a visceral need , and from that center is governing my life.

Raised between brush and canvas , grew up in a creative environment in the workshop of your father ... what memories will come to mind at that time ?

Playing career dodging the workshop canvases and brushes , the first fluorescent waxes , hours standing posing for exercise of Fine Arts, and the best, absolute freedom.

At age 11 moved to Lanzarote , Gran Canaria from your home , and that is where you open your mind to the crystal blue and whites from Lanzarote ...

Yes, a complete rebirth . It was a gift of fate ... I did not know what was the light and observe the infinite until then, and of course the turquoise weightless universe , which coincided with that at that age I learned to swim ... Lanzarote , for me , was nature in vein.

What's that smell your childhood ?

Clouds? hahah .. just kidding ..

Well the first thing that could comes to mind is the salt , which would be so consistent and dramatic , but is more about my great-grandmother's violet candies  , my grandmother's macaroni with chorizo ​​and lemon custard  and " cropanes " .

What is your first memory with a pencil or brush in hand ?

Drawing with 3-4 years as my parents said , gypsy trimmed after paint with watercolors and give them like a present to the visits.

And at what point do you decide which career in Fine Arts ?

I was going to make architecture , which was what my father wanted me to do , for the academy califications in technical drawing and I did a bachelor of pure sciences , but when i finished, and say to my father that if he had done Fine Arts ... I also wanted the same! And of course , my family understood and supported me...

What gives you your step pictorial university level ?

For painting technique the truth is that I feel that I learned at home. In college I opened rather the perspective from which deal with art, with different ways to express their creativity , but for now there followed a figurative ... focus, do you want to express and , above all, to go further with the process .

Learn which "creates creating " and the results are never a final result. Until you die, your work isn't as perfect as possible . The accumulation of life experiences permeates what you do , that life is supposed wisdom that will enrich your expression ...

Slowly but surely. Not looking for a specific result , everything will be a result in itself.

And on a human level ?

A found the chosen family,  those friends who are with you for life ... And travel , cultures and different atmospheres , my other passion .

You expand borders , ending your career in Belgium . From light to dark hutch European ....

Yes, it was hard to insufficient light and cold, but amazing experience. Living in a foreign country gives you a new vision of reality. Not only for the innovative techniques and artistic philosophies , but on a personal level .

It would be mandatory for me to educational level of all students at some point will experience the feel alien in a foreign land . All those mental borders on the absurd would be diluted . Live it " inside out " develops tolerance, humility and unity.

In 2000, start working on the underwater . How were the beginning ? What led to the bottom ?

Well, since I was 11 I started with the pipe and glasses trying to reflect what was in the water , but it was unsuccessful and abandoned .

One day especially crystalline blue underwater in 99 colors made ​​me point out of the water I memorized to see a lady floating. I had no underwater camera , the digital age has not yet reached the vox populi , so it had to be drawing from memory. And , well, it was too much anger from the frustration of not being able to master the language of what i wanted to express. I did try to come up with it , at least for me, to see that peace and infinity I feel when I'm there.

What is a work process from concept to the end? Still working on previous picture ?

Before I consider the concept , I don't know in the case of the other artists , I guess we all go through it. First is the life experience : the brand defines what you will share.

And suddenly you look at the environment with a " zoom " focuses in a situation, or aesthetic script to know that you somehow need to possess and impregnate it with your own language , often not even knowing or how you will. That's what I call visceral . You have to do because if not , you die. You are trying different options , techniques ... until you reflecting how you feel.

In my case by now the whole introduction to watercolor that I lived in my house was the eureka to represent infinity, the sea, the water , the uncontrollable, the flow. Why could not manage stroke by stroke imitating the water, i felt "caught " , she doesn't ... doesn't do what you want to do , has its own life . And I respect that freedom only in the initial phases were watered down.

The rest , the human being , to oil , to differentiate also technique both as different materials .

Yes , I photograph people and then combine the images according to the script that the watery suggests to me ..

Many think that the ocean is the protagonist , but not ....

The ocean is now a backdrop of human emotions , which is what I really need to express : the relationships or loneliness , fear , passion , peace , brotherhood , courage ...

Don't know how I will be under water by now I 'm not tired , but I assume there will be another someday backdrop , the only constant is change itself says Oriental philosophy ...

What does the sea as a backdrop with not do the land or air?

The weightlessness. It is a giant uterus where we float and we can be rocked by mystery. You can dodge the logic in the sea ...

Does the water is so chromatic palette wide ?

It depends on the depth you want to convey. Deeper , less range . The warm disappear .

Also depending on what you want to reflect in water . The pristine sands and clear seas , or north strong and dark . Everything depends on the emotion you want the swimmer feel : survival or enjoyment.

A palette that broke not long ago in the red series , in which the danger reporting abuse on oil extraction in Canarian waters .....

The red serie was one of those visceral moments of which I spoke earlier . It was a necessity, but not for reporting oil , was a work in the exhibition " WITH YOU " in Luroa .

It is about passion , that double-edged sword , the passionate and the two sides of the coin involved , passion vs . war , when is misdirected .

The oil is a combination of blue and black , of course ... Hopefully not have to pull the oil black with that approach .

I must confess I see your work is pure therapy .... What does the silence underwater ? Evoke How do you get that atmosphere ?

It's therapy for me when I'm performing.

To silence the more water surface in space and less human. To express other things ,people can play a greater role , with peers from different species , colors .... but for silence, the preponderance of blue is basic , like when you swim away with the tube to where you have no reference or background , or on the sides , only rays of different degrees of blue surround you and you only hear your own breathing .

You're so small , you could almost say that you feel ridiculous presence in this vast space. Conceptually relativized you around you .

Even problems become smaller ... But to really convey this feeling, i need a canvas of meters and meters . So far I have not had the opportunity , the materials are too expensive, but my work would be much more ready-witted on giant canvases . Someday!

What does the sea canary that distinguishes from the rest?

With respect to the Caribbean and Mediterranean I have known , is more intense , strong, powerful , wilder , retaining clarity.

Let's talk about exhibitions . Already a veteran in this field. How do you handle the criticism of others and the works falling into the hands of others?

Criticism affected when inside you know you have not given everything I could give, or justified by circumstances that could not get away from the result you wanted. But reasonable or not, you must take it into account , because the next thing kicks will best , whether you give credit or not and you reinforce your perspective .

As in life, we are to learn and improve through our interactions , wrong or not, with our peers. We refined. Certainly, not ever have to take it personally: " Your enemy defines you " is a reference that I read in a story where was explained the sadness felt by a king when the king enemy dies, his existence was defined by him, his movements, and the withdrawals ... Finally, when itthe enemy disappears , you're empty. I never would have thought .

I think that is the most positive approach that can give criticism , not only in art, but in life . It is an opportunity to improve , always.

Knowing that your work has adoptive parents is comforting, is like you feel empathy, they have understood,  " feel " you. I easily let go of the works , is a gift that others want to take them. Only once cried , with the work " Silence" , but I was glad it has new home after all ... and now that time has passed , even more happy ...

It always amazes me that the works will find new homes, and I am grateful every time like the first time ...

Where is the farthest you know there's a Meseguer ?

USA , I do not remember exactly where. Oh ... and Russia.

Can survive working only in art in the Canaries?

Depends on what you need to live, I guess. The less you need , the easier . For now is the price i pay, but i prefer live in total freedom and follow my own beats .

What do you do now? I think the comics of the eighties has much to say about it ....

Yes , those eighty with Cimoc , Zona84 , Richard Corben and many more ... They're coming to the skin now that I've lived life situations in which the unconscious memory has become flesh . Well, for now are idea even , and sketches.

When the crisis began more present, in 2008 , when I created the red work, i had the idea.. the script for what would be, but my personal life events has been delayed that . It is an effort of time and money and I've been a little subject to personal cincunstances , but I'm very stubborn when I have something clear, when  vibrates in the bowels. I will do it for sure.

The cooking time has not been in vain , despite the changes of destination. The have matured and now is more complete in my head, carries more weight . I hope to have it ready for 2015 , while : Corners of Water" and parallel sketching new ideas ...

Do we have a quick test Take a breath ..... Oil or acrylic ? ?

WATERCOLOR

Soundtrack to work .

Depends on the moment . I usually start workshop  dancing   metal , rock , dubstep ....

When i 've broken the thoughts of the day , I go into the painting with techno-environmental , I concentrate fast. For children or sweet paintings, i prefer reggae. I only know one thing constant: in silence I can't paint. And the more pleasant sound , but it's when I stop the stroke , is to listen the voice tone scale of my doughter with the keyboard  walked with stones because she hasn't enough fingers , curious opera-techno ...

A moment to translate ....

The liquid light on flesh.

Sketches or direct ? Pit ?

Direct , if not, I get bored fast. In addition , the photographs are already sketching.

Combine the bodies on the blue without drawing , based on spot colors . I sort of mentally projector like magic eye , with the image of the photo between the eye and the canvas. Soon I shall ( on November 15 ) and give a workshop , two weeks later, in Fluxart about these tricks , and other of color also .

A place where you dream exhibit ....

The cradle of art , Florence , it's done, but it was a romantic level ..

Well I suppose like any artist, Guggenheim , MOMA , ... a retrospective with works that hopefully can make meters and meters wide and long ... or sculptures and installations that I have sketched ...

An international reference

Now love the water sculptures Shinichi Maruyama

National Anybody ?

i don't remember now...later i think about it...

What about the islands?

All my artist friends , I'm not objective , I know. Many years of experiences parallel to they works , and understand much , do not know when it is separated from the work itself, or for all that I have experienced the process of creating a life together ...

Laura Gherardi for her delicate sweetness, tormented and wise at the same time , a line difficult to balance .  Santiago Palenzuela , for his sense of color and mass . Juan Pedro Ayala , his stroke heartbreaking and secure. Julio Blancas for its amazing underground worlds brain . Cristina Fierro Hernandez , Nacho Hernandez and Juana Fortuny for they carefree colors and boundary-breaking madness . Jorge Rojas for his continuous line direct gushing deep from the psyche . The daily life dignified of Teresa Arozena  . The human mandalas of Maloli Mardones . Transparencies colorful lights of Meritxell Barroso  ... Do I still ? Should !

But my favorite , Santiago Palenzuela , Juan Pedro Ayala .. And of course, Nestor de la Torre and Miro Mainou of previous generations .

An inspiration ...

Always where you least expect it .

The sea is ...

the mysterious infinite water become ​​, easy to fly without machines, a gift for those who can't be astronauts or shooting stars.

Thank you very much once again , and good luck in the dive.

ESQUINAS DE AGUA en FLUXART

ENVÍOS AL EXTRANJERO / OVERSEAS SHIPMENTS

Empaquetando encargos para Argentina y Suecia,... buen viaje a mis pequeños!

Packaging paintings to Argentina and Sweden....nice trip to my little children!

PORTADA EN PELLAGOFIO / COVER ON PELLAGOFIO Magazine

Publicación de la obra "Espuma de Sal", realizada para el magazine "Pellagofio", adjunto a los periódicos La Provincia y La Opinión de Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España.

Cover commissioned by Pellagofio Magazine, with journals La Provincia and La Opinión de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

                                                               

                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                             

“ÉXTASIS & +” en Tenerife

Exposición “ÉXTASIS & +” que tendrá lugar en Castillo San Felipe (paseo Luis Lavaggi) Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife.

Fecha de  exposición: 7 Febrero- 26 de Febrero 2013.

CARTEL CARNAVAL 2013 Arrecife Lanzarote / CARNIVAL POSTER 2013 Arrecife, Lanzarote

Cartel del Carnaval 2013 para el Ayuntamiento de Arrecife de Lanzarote., Islas Canarias, España.

2013 Carnival Poster of Arrecife,  commissioned by the city council of Arrecife, Lanzarote. Canary Islands, Spain.

El carnaval de Arrecife ya tiene cartel: “El fondo marino de Lanzarote me ha servido de inspiración” from DiariodeLanzarote.com on Vimeo.

ESQUINAS DE AGUA (Obra de pequeño formato) / CORNERS OF WATER (Small paintings)

Primera serie de obras de pequeño formato ( 22 x 16 x 3 cm) en El Museo del Vino, en las Bodegas El Grifo, Lanzarote. La inauguración será el 14 de Diciembre de 2012 a las 16.00 pm. Les esperamos!!

First series of small format paintings (22 x 16 x 3 cm) in El Museo del Vino,  Bodegas El Grifo, Lanzarote. The opening will be on December 14, 2012 at 16:00 pm. We wait for you!

"DIBUJANDO BURBUJAS" en No se lo Digas a Nadie,propuesta del OAC

ARTÍCULO DE CREATIVA CANARIA, donde se explica detalladamente la actividad que tendrá lugar en el marco de las acciones culturales de "No se lo digas a nadie" , perteneciente al Organismo Autónomo de Cultura (OAC), del Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife este sábado 17 de noviembre, en El Depósito del Arte

"ÉXTASIS". Exposición Individual (Noviembre 2012) / Solo Exhibition (November 2012)

La exposición ÉXTASIS, donde las aguas pierden oscuridad, la luz hace más clara la visión, los aromas, sabores y oxígeno se adueñan del entorno, será mostrada en la Galería Cuadro (C/ León y Castillo, 9. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) hasta el 24 de Noviembre.

Video realizado por Josean para Galería Cuadro.

Fotografías de Maloli Mardones.

HORARIO: 10 h.  -13.30  h.

                     16.30 h.  - 20.00 h.

                     Sábados: 10 h. - 13.30 h.

VIDEO "ENTRE 2 MARES" , Elena Betancor y Nuria Meseguer

Así fue la reapertura de Los Aljibes con la muestra 'Entre dos mares' de Nuria Meseguer y Elena Betancor from DiariodeLanzarote.com on Vimeo.

"Entre 2 Mares" . Ocio Lanzarote

ENTRE 2 MARES. Elena Betancor & Nuria Meseguer.

Próxima exposición para la reapertura de la sala de exposiciones Los Aljibes, Tahiche, con las obras de  Elena Betancor y Nuria Meseguer, comisariada por Adonay Bermúdez.

"(...)La muestra pictórica se titula Entre dos mares y será una oportunidad para que la pintora de “personajes que nadan en sus propias mentes”, la grancanaria Meseguer, y la lanzaroteña de “rabia contenida y furia cautelosa” interpreten el mar desde sus ópticas respectivas. No es algo que hagan ex profeso para esta cita, porque el paisaje y la naturaleza protagonizan buena parte de sus obras y preocupaciones. (...)"  Maria José Tabar para Diario de Lanzarote.

Día 7 de Julio a las 20.00 pm.

Horario de la Galería: De Lunes a Domingo de 1000 h. a 19.00 h.

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Next exhibition for the reopening of LOS ALJIBES, (Tahiche, Lanzarote) with Elena Betancor and Nuria Meseguer paintings, curated by Adonay Bermudez.

"(...) The pictorial exhibition is titled Between Two Seas, with works of the artist from Gran Canaria (Meseguer) of "characters who swim in their own minds", and the artist from Lanzarote (Elena Betancor) ,with "rage and cautious fury", will be an opportunity to interpret the sea ​​from their respective optical. Is not something that made ​​expressly for this appointment, because the landscape and nature starring much of his work and concerns. (...) " .  Maria Jose Tabar for "Diario de Lanzarote".

Day 7 July at 20.00 pm.
Gallery visiting hours: Monday to Sunday from 10.00 hrs. to 19.00 h.

INAUGURACIÓN EN CASABIERTA /OPENING AT CASABIERT

En la obra más reciente que estoy realizando los protagonistas se encuentran en una soledad acompañada únicamente por burbujas, aire, oxígeno...símil para mí de la libertad...Burbujas que,  como un buen champán, celebran  esa intimidad con uno mismo donde por fin podemos sentirnos sin referencias, en azules calmos infinitos, para construirnos desde una nueva base.

Inauguración en CASABIERTA de una selección de obra participante en AQA, Florencia, comisariada por Giada Rodani, con la maravillosa actuación de Esther Alfonso Quartet

Gracias a todos por asistir!

(English)
In my latest works the protagonists are in a solitude accompanied only by bubbles, air, oxygen...a simile for me of freedom ... Bubbles like a good champagne, celebrating that intimacy with oneself, where finally we can be without references, in infinite calm blue where it's posible to create ourselves from a new base.

Opening 7 June in CASABIERTA, of a selection of works participating in AQA, Florence, curated by Giada Rodani, with a wonderful show of Esther Alfonso Quartet

Thanks to all for coming!

"AQA" en CASABIERTA

Exposición el 7 de Junio de 2012 de algunas obras de gran y pequeño formato pertenecientes a AQA, en CASABIERTA, (C/ Capitán Brotons, 9. La Laguna, Tenerife, Islas Canarias) con la compañía musical de Esther Alfonso Quartet. A las 21.00 pm.

"AIRE...ABRÁZAME" / "AIR...HOLD ME"

1,95 x 1,62 m / 76,1 x 63,2 inches

Exhibition on June 7, of some works of great and small format belonging to AQA in CASABIERTA, (C / Captain Brotons, 9. La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands) with the music company of Esther Alfonso Quartet. At 21.00 pm.

AQA. Exposición en Florencia sobre el Agua en Present Art Space.

"The exhibition “AQA” will display some of the most important works of art by 6 Italian and Foreign artists whose artistic inspiration has been influenced by the Water and underwater world. The paintings by Antonio Guarnieri, Nuria Meseguer and PeiHan, the sculptures by Andrea Nicita and Ryota Shioya, and the photography by Stefano Ridolfi, are able to arouse feelings and ancestral memories from sleep, deep sensations which are part of the human nature. Each artist embraces the theme by the means of his/her art, but everyone is able to remark the same close connection and fusion perception with the whole Universe provoked by this natural element." Giada Rodani.

"La exposición "AQA" presentará algunas de las obras más significativas de 6 artistas, italianos y extranjeros, que han hecho del mundo submarino la inspiración para su investigación artística. Las pinturas de Antonio Guarnieri, Nuria Meseguer y PeiHan, las esculturas de Andrea Nicita yRyota Shioya, la fotografía de Stefano Ridolfi, son capaces de despertar sentimientos y recuerdos ancestrales, sensaciones profundas que forman parte de la experiencia humana. Cada artista aborda el tema con los medios de su arte, pero cada uno de ellos expresa la misma conexión íntima y el sentido de fusión con el Todo que este elemento primario es capaz de suscitar." Giada Rodani.

Super del Arte. Obra en El Generador.

Proceso de la obra / Process of the paintings

Mucha gente me pregunta sobre el trabajo que realizo...así que creo conveniente explicar un poco el proceso de los cuadros... En un principio saco fotografías bajo el mar de los modelos, que luego imprimo a formato clasico, 10 x 15 cm normalmente, y selecciono de las imágenes a las personas a pintar, según las aguadas que me han quedado en el lienzo y lo que me inspiran. A continuación copio la foto a carboncillo, dibujando a ojo, y más adelante pintando al óleo. Aunque me da vertigo comenzar cada cuadro de esta forma tradicional de pintura, también reconozco que sentir el desafío y el miedo de que quizás no consiga lo que busco, me motiva aún más... Un saludo y gracias a todos por vuestro interés! _________________________________________________________________ Many people ask me about the work I do ... so I should explain a bit about the process of the paintings... At first I take photographs underwater models, then print them in a classical format, 10 x 15 cm normally and select images to paint people on the watercolors that I have done before on canvas . Then I copy the photo to charcoal drawing by freehand, and later oil painting. Although it gives me vertigo begin each frame of this traditional form of painting, I also recognize that the challenge and feel the fear that maybe i will not get what I'm looking for, it motivates me even more ... A greeting and thank you all for your interest!

EL ESCONDITE DE LAS SIRENAS en Lanzarote.

La exposición "El escondite de Las Sirenas" que será expuesta en la Ermita de San Antonio en Tías, Lanzarote, desde el 1 de Diciembre hasta el 7 de Enero del 2012, es una continuación de la anterior exposición en la galería Cuadro en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,

incluyendo 3 obras de la serie roja, que no ha sido mostrada anteriormente en la isla.

El horario de la sala será de 17 pm - 20.00 pm y sábados de 10.00 am -14.00 pm. , aunque puede ser ampliado por las mañanas.

Espero que sea de su agrado, gracias por su visita.

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The exhibition "The hiding place of the Sirens" which will be exhibited at the Ermita de San Antonio in Tias, Lanzarote, from December 1 to January 7, 2012, is a continuation of the previous exhibition at the gallery Cuadro in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, including 3 red works, which has not been shown previously on the island.

The open hours will be 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Saturday from 10.00 am -14.00 pm. But may be extended to the morning.

I hope you like it, thanks for your visit.