"The birth
of an Art-piece is a miracle. It is the fact that Nature is here and that Life
sprouts. We are led by unknown forces. Therefore, we ignore something very important
for ourselves, because it concerns us directly.
"The same
power that impulses the Nature to exist and the Life to flow is the same energy
involved in the artistic creation. So, when the Art-piece is finally born, the
miracle has happened. Through the ideal person - the artist - the Nature continues
with its creating task." (Adrián Rosa, Creación Artística)
Brief
Biographic Notes
Adrián Rosa
was born in Granada (Spain) in 1931, but two years later he was brought to Eivissa
by his parents. It became his homeland and he grew up throughout his childhood
and youth in Eivissa's natural and cultural environment.
After the Spanish
Civil War, in the mid 1940s, as a teenager, Adrián passed his exams in the "Instituto
de Enseñanza Media d'Eivissa" and also matriculated himself in the
"Escuela de Artes y Oficios" (Eivissa's Art School) where he
studied for seven years.
Adrián knew
from his very early years that he wanted to be a painter, so, in 1950 he went
to Valencia to enlarge his art studies and matriculated in the "Escuela
de Bellas Artes de San Carlos", where he got his degree as an art professor
in 1955, and worked as such in the "Instituto Isaac Peral de Cartagena",
teaching drawing and painting from his cathedral until 1958.
But Adrián wanted
to be just a painter, he wanted his own time just for painting, so he finished
with teaching and started a long journey through several European countries
that lasted for five years. During this time, Adrián painted a lot and exhibited
with success in different art galleries (Paris, London, and Brussels); sometimes
he had to work in some alternative jobs for a living.
Back to Eivissa
in 1963, where he continued painting, with frequent exhibitions in the Islands
and mainland Spanish galleries, sharing his time with some periods in Paris
and Brussels.
Since 1985,
Adrián, as a complete art professor, has alternated his painting with his other
vocation as Art conservator and restorer. We can see one of his best restorations
in the frescos adorning the vault of "Santo Domingo" church,
in Eivissa Town.
"If in
the birth of an Art-piece is done by the intervention of mysterious and unknown
forces, in the task of the conservator or restorer, has got to be a big knowledge
of the technique, a lot of patience and sensitiveness.
"We are
then in front of two activities, involved with each other more just by appearance
than as a real fact. On the one hand we have the creator, the artist, acting
and painting by impulses, by instinct; on the other hand we have the art-restorer,
working in a complete, rational way, exclusively methodical and technical.
"If the
creation of an art-piece is a miracle, the attitude of the art-restorer has
got to be maximum modesty and respect for the art-piece that has been entrusted
to his hands. He must use his knowledge and techniques only to prevent
its deterioration, always with most respect for the original art-work and its
creator."
Adrián
Rosa, Creación Artística y Conservación de la Obra de Arte
Adrián has kindly
written (in Spanish) a note about his actual vision of his art, of his actual
painting style. Please don't be too severe with my limitations as a translator.
"Sobre
Mi Pintura Actual"
"Por mi edad y circunstancia pertenezco
al colectivo de artistas que estudió en las escuelas de arte españolas de los
años 40 y 50 del siglo XX. Se tenía una concepción artística en que se valoraba
mucho la calidad de la obra artística del pasado, en que se buscaba mediante
el estudio una base artesanal sólida, y en la que se proponía para más tarde
el llevar a cabo una revolución en la pintura de cada cual.
Yo he estado
siempre enamorado de la pintura del renacimiento italiano, pero también he flirteado
con algunos movimientos del siglo XX como el expresionismo o el surrealismo.
En 1995 llevé a cabo un cambio
en mi pintura que he mantenido hasta el presente. Se trata de un cambio en que
tiendo a una mayor simplificación de las formas de la realidad y en donde se
potencian las estructuras apoyandome en los movimientos cubistas de principios
del siglo XX. No he querido hacer cubismo de nuevo, sino aprovecharme de su
investigación para de alguna manera hacer evolucionar ese clacisismo que tanto
he amado.
Al vivir
en Ibiza en contacto con esa arquitectura rural tan peculiar, tan antigua y
tan moderna a la vez, me he sentido un privilegiado al comprobar que me ofrecía
ya hecho mucho de lo que yo buscaba.
En resumen que, sin abandonar la representación
clásica de la forma he llegado a un compromiso entre la representación realista
de los renacenteistas como Piero de la Francesca o Masccio y ciertas conquistas
modernas de los cubistas." (Adrián Rosa, Ibiza 11-Marzo-2002.)
"About
my Actual Painting"
"Because
of my age and circumstances, I belong to the collective of artists which studied
in the Spanish art-schools of the 1940s and 1950s decades of the twentieth century.
The conception of Art was to value the best of the technical qualities of the
art-master-pieces of the past, in which the studies were led to form solid artisan
bases, leaving for the future the personal evolution, opening ways for the future
revolution in everyone.
“I have always
been in love with the Italian renaissance painting and some of the twentieth-century
styles, such as expressionism and surrealism.
“In 1995, I
took new directions in my painting that I have maintained till nowadays. It
is a change in which I try to simplify the real forms and increase the structure
of the painting basing myself in the cubism movement of the beginning of last
century. I didn't want to do "cubism painting" again, but to profit
myself from the investigation of these techniques for the evolution of the classical
painting that I love so much.
“Living in Eivissa,
directly in contact with our peculiar rural architecture, so old and modern
at the same time, I felt myself to be a really privileged being, when I found
out that most of what I was looking for was already here, offered to me.
“Without leaving
the classical representation of the forms, I have come to a compromise between
the realistic representation of the renaissance masters such as Piero de
la Francesca or Madaccio and some of the modern advances of the
cubism techniques.” (Adrián Rosa, Eivissa. 11th March 2002.)
Artistic
Curriculum
1954
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S. Braulio,
Dibujos, Valencia
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1957
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Real Sociedad
Económica de Amigos del País, Cartagena
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1958
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Real Sociedad
Económica de Amigos del País, Cartagena
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1964
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Galerie
l'Escalier Brussels.
Caja de Pensiones, Eivissa
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1965
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Galería Gráfica, Sant Antoni (Eivissa)
Ateneo de Salamanca.
Galerie l'Escalier, Brussels
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1966
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Caja de
Pensiones, Eivissa
Nouvelle Galerie l'Escalier,
Brussels
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1967
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Galería
Gráfica, Sant Antoni (Eivissa)
Caja de Pensiones, Eivissa
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1968
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Sociedad
Cultural, Eivissa
Galerie La Grande Jatte, Brussels
Sala Vallribera, Sant Antoni (Eivissa)
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1969
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Galería
5, Eivissa.
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1970
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Sala Vallribera,
Sant Antoni (Eivissa)
Galería Ivan
Spence, Eivissa.
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1974
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Caja de Pensiones, Eivissa
Galería de Arte J, Blanes
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1975
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Caja de Pensiones, Eivissa
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1976
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Galería
Isidoro Maiquez, Cartagena
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1977
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Caja de
Pensiones, Eivissa
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1978
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Caja de
Pensiones, Eivissa
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1979
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Caja de
Pensiones, Eivissa
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1980
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Caja de
Pensiones, Eivissa
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1981
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Galería
Byblos, Palma de Mallorca
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1982
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Instituto
de España, London (UK)
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1983
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Caja de
Pensiones Eivissa
Sala de Arte al Dia. Biblioteca Española, Paris (France)
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1985
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Restauración
de la bóveda de la Iglesia del Convento, Eivissa (Restoration of the
vault of this Church)
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1986
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Restauración
de dos cuadros antiguos de colecciones particulares (Restoration of
two old painting from a private collection) Eivissa
Restauración de dos cuadros del siglo XVII (Restoration of two XVII
century paintings in Sant Antoni's Church) en la Iglesia de Sant
Antoni Eivissa
Galería El Mensajero, Santa Eulària, Eivissa
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1987
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Restauración
del Órgano de la Iglesia del Convento, Eivissa
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1988
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Sala de
Cultura Sa Nostra, Eivissa
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1990
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Sala de
Cultura Sa Nostra, Eivissa
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1992
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Sala de
Cultura Sa Nostra, Eivissa
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1994
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Sala de
Cultura Sa Nostra, Eivissa
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1996
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Sala de
Cultura Sa Nostra, Eivissa
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1999
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Sala de
Cultura Sa Nostra, Eivissa
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Personal Donations
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1997
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Mural for
the Escuela de Artes y Oficios, Eivissa
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1998
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Dos murales
(two murals) in the Iglesia de Santa Cruz, Eivissa.
Mural in the Centro Cultural de Can Ventosa, Eivissa
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