ARTURO COMAS
Sevilla (ES), 1982
Bio
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Awards
Residencies
Collections
Work
Biography
Graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Seville, his work observes the absurd and the useless starting from the concrete relationship with the object. After observation and study process, the subversion of logic follows creating proposals that play with the plausibility of the useful, but that lead us to face the absolute lack of understanding and meaning.
In his production, mostly photographic, he uses the object, installation, video and sculpture.
During 2021, he developed his editorial project “Husos Múltiples” which was awarded of the VEGAP Support for Creation. In 2019 he developed the project “Construcciones de senso” in Senegal, awarded by the II Call for TRANSVERSIA residency grants, of the ANKARIA Foundation.
Since 2018, he has been coordinating the artists with grants at “Encuentros de Arte de Genalguacil”, in Malaga.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 "DESUSOS", Espacio Derivado, Seville (Spain)
2023 "A CADEIRA (The Chair)", Galeria NAVE, Lisbon (Portugal)
2021, “10th”, Genalguacil Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Juan Francisco Rueda, Málaga, (Spain)
2021, “For nothing”, Gallery T20, text by Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta, Murcia (Spain)
2020, “Cosas de casa”, PHotoEspaña Festival OFF with Galería Espacio Olvera (online)
2018, “I don’t understand anything”, Support INICIARTE Junta de Andalusia, Sala Santa Inés, Seville (Spain)
2018, “Sobre todos las cosas”, ARTE SANTANDER Galería Espacio Olvera, curated by Reyi Pérez Castillo, Santander (Spain)
2017, “Logically”, Galeria La 13, Huelva (Spain)
2016, “Impermanencia”, House of Culture of Doña Mencía, Cordoba (Spain)
2014, “We are all going to die”, La sala, Seville (Spain)
2013, “¿Por que?”, XIII INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNIAL OF CÓRDOBA (Spain)
Group Exhibitions
>>> 2024 May, 10th "BE MY GUEST" curated by NAVE, Galeria NAVE, Lisbon (Portugal)
2023 “Opuestos”, curated by Juan Francisco Rueda, MAC Genalguacil, Málaga (Spain)
2023 "Rare Earths", Glogau, Berlin (Germany)
2023 "WANDERLUST", Artes Mota Galiza Porto (Portugal)
2023 “Los únicos que saben de arte son los artistas”, Galeria Zunino, Seville (Spain)
2022 "(0/1) o zero e o um", MUHNAC National Museum of Natural History and Science of Lisbon (Portugal)
2022, "Transversia" LA BIENNALE DE DAKAR, Boribana Museum, Dakar + Siki Gallery, Saint Louis (Senegal)
2022, "Present Tense" LAGE EGAL, Berlim (Germany)
2021, “Propuestas VEGAP 2020 - Proyectos ganadores”, CentroCentro , Madrid (Spain)
2021, “XIV Certamen Fundación Unicaja”, Centro Cultural Fundación Unicaja, Malaga (Spain)
2021, Exhibition “XIV Certamen Unicaja de Artes Plásticas”, Centro Fundación Unicaja de Antequera, Malaga (Spain)
2020, “Del transito y lo transitorio”, Espacio Olvera Gallery, Seville (Spain)
2020, “Bauhaus: 100 years of the total revolution of a language”, Diputación de Seville (Spain)
2020, “Confinement ARCHIVE”, curated by María Arregui (online)
2020, “Scattergories”, exhibition curated by Nerea Ubieto and Alejandro Castellote (online)
2019, “45 years of the Fúcares Gallery”, Almagro (Spain)
2019, “14th Bienal Martínez Guerricabeitia”, City Museum, Valencia (Spain)
2019, “Bauhaus”, Province House, Seville (Spain)
2019, “72 hours” Galeria Zunino, Seville (Spain)
2019, “El jardín secreto” Salas da Coracha MUPAM, Malaga (Spain)
2019, “Últimos paisajes” Fernando Centeno Contemporary Art Museum, Genalguacil, Malaga (Spain)
2018, “15 Mostra” Museum of Contemporary Art of the Naturgy Foundation, A Coruña (Spain)
2018, “HYBRID”, Petit Palace, Madrid (Spain)
2018, “Landscape. Surroundings and context”, curated by Juan Fco. Rueda, M.A.C. from Genalguacil, Malaga (Spain)
2018, “ArtBanchel”, Studio 10, Madrid, (Spain)
2018, “Ausencias”, CICUS curated by Antonio Jiménez AJG, Seville (Spain)
2017, “Parasitos”, CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville (Spain)
2017, “DesArraigo”, Sala La Económica, included in the INICIARTE programme, Málaga (Spain)
2017, “Under 35”, GACMA Gallery, Malaga (Spain)
2017, “The Host”, ArtSevilla, Seville (Spain)
2017, “Art Marbella”, Stand Genalguacil curated by Juan Francisco Rueda, Marbella (Spain)
2016, “ABSURD”, Galeria Octubre, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón (Spain)
2016, “The shapes of silence”, El Huerto del Tertuliano, Valladolid (Spain)
2016, “ART&BREAKFAST2”, Malaga (Spain)
2016, “Notas al margen”, Cosmopoética Festival, Antonio Gala Foundation, Córdoba (Spain)
2016, “UNDER 35” GACMA Gallery, Malaga (Spain)
2015, “Strategies for climbing a tree”, Galeria La Lisa, Albacete (Spain)
2015, “Un chien andalou” en PALMA Photo, Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
2015, UNDER 35 at the GACMA Gallery, Malaga (Spain)
2015, “Histeria y Tradicción” at the History Museum of El Carpio (during Scarpia XIV), Córdoba (Spain)
2015, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Genalguacil, Malaga (Spain)
2015, Malaga CREA at La Caja Blanca, Malaga (Spain)
2015, MARTE International Contemporary Art Fair, Castellón (Spain)
2015, National Contemporary Art Competition, Ciudad de Utrera, Seville (Spain)
2015, “The Faces Book” at Casa Sostoa, Malaga (Spain)
2015, “Jäälphoto”, Madrid (Spain)
2014, “CALL 14”, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia (Spain)
2014, “Jäälproject”, Photography fair, Madrid (Spain)
2014, “BLUR PHOTO”, La Galería Roja, Seville (Spain)
2014, “FINDE 01”, at ECCO Espacio de Creación Contemporánea, Cádiz (Spain)
2014, “Bi-Nomios”, Sala de la Muralla. UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA (Spain)
2014, “100×100”, Galería A del Arte, Zaragoza (Spain)
2014, “Plan Renew”, Seville (Spain)
2013, XIX National Competition of Plastic Arts University of Seville (Spain)
2013, FACBA Contemporary Art Fair, Faculty of Fine Arts of Granada (Spain)
2013, Ayuntamiento de Archidona, Project Scarpia Garden, Malaga (Spain)
2013, “Art and Natura” Centro Ataria, Vitoria (Spain)
2013, “En Escena” Z Jornadas de Arte, Montalbán, Cordoba (Spain)
2012, MUVIM (Valencian Museum of Illustration and Modernity (Spain)
2012, “Incubarte”, Valencia (Spain)
2012, María Nieves Martín Art Gallery in Villafranca de los Barros, Badajoz (Spain)
2012, “No me quemo”, Faculty3 of Fine Arts of Seville, Sala Espacio GB (Spain)
2012, Arévalo International Contemporary Art Fair. Church of San Martín, Avila (Spain)
Awards
2020, VEGAP Proposals
2018, Award-winning work at the XXXIX Contemporary Art Competition of the Ciudad de Utrera
2017, INICIARTE selected individual project
2016, Selected project INICIARTE, curated by Regina Pérez Castillo
2016, Award-winning project in DMencia, Córdoba
2016, Award-winning project at the 1st Culla Contemporânea Residence, Castellón
2014, Project selected in Jäälproject, Madrid
2014, Selected for CALL, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia
2012, Work selected and acquired at the XIX National Art Show in Seville
2012, Audiovisual Festival Iuventus Fest (Utopia)
Accésit at the XIX Experimental Poetry Prize, Diputación de Badajoz
Residencies
2019, TRANSVERSIA Residency of the ANKARIA Foundation, Senegal
2019, A SECAS, CAAC Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, Seville
2019, II Villalar-Castilla y León Foundation Artists Meeting
2018, Contemporary Culla, Castellón)
2016, New Artists Meeting, Santiago de Compostela)
2015, PINEA, Rota
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Collections
DKV Collection
Artillery Museum, Murcia
Ankaria Foundation, Madrid
Benin Madrid Collection
University of Seville
Genalguacil Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga
MARTE International Contemporary Art Fair
House of Culture of Utrera
Archidona City Council, Malaga
Deputation of Badajoz
Newcastle Foundation
Culla City Council, Castellon
CENDEAC, Murcia
