Maria Carbonell
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Maria Carbonell received a BA degree and doctoral studies in fine arts at the San Carlos Faculty of Fine Arts, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, in 2003. In the last year of her degree, she moved to Athens with a Sócrates-Erasmus grant. She has lived and worked in Murcia since 2008.
Some of her individual projects are Fake (Cajamurcia Foundation, Madrid, 2015), Dans l’interstice du silence (L’Escalier Espace d’Art, Montreuil, France, 2014), Transient Places (Gallery 133, Toronto, 2014), Those Who Look/Aquellos que Miran (BJ Art Gallery, Paris, 2013), Miscellaneous Works (Palacio de Garcigrande de Caja España-Caja Duero, Salamanca, 2013), oSobre-expuestos (ES/UM, Espacio para el arte, University of Murcia, Murcia, 2012).
Throughout her artistic career, she has been awarded different prizes, such as the Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby’s Scholarships and Prizes of Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró (2018), resident artist at the VI Encontro de Artistas Novos ‘Cidade da Cultura’ (Santiago de Chile). Compostela, 2016, as well as prestigious selections such as the BP Portrait Award (London, 2011, 2014, and 2015).
Among the group exhibitions and projects in which she has participated in recent years is SALÓN-TEATRO. The Head Before the Eye, curated by Sema D’Acosta (Birimbao Gallery, Seville, 2019), Estampa (Gallery T20, 2018), Hand on Hand (ABC Cultural stand at Arcomadrid 18), ARCOmadrid 2018 (Galería T20), and the Mislata Biennial Miquel Navarro (Cultural Centre of Mislata, 2017).
During 2019, she will carry out various projects, such as the artistic residency at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, where she will carry out the project Beyond the Body, a winning project in the residency scholarships, training, and participation in the Casa de Velázquez Awards and Scholarships Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby’s of the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró. Likewise, she is currently preparing her next solo exhibition at the Párraga Centre in Murcia.
My work develops as a questioning and vindication of painting. Through it, I look for relationships that go between evidence and interpretation, between figuration and abstraction, constantly seeking a balance between concept and matter capable of emotionally affecting the viewer. I am interested in creating images that provoke a certain feeling of discomfort and restlessness in the viewer and that invite them to question the relationship between the content and the theme of the work, with them providing meaning and context through their subjective experiences. of the same. I usually work on topics related to feminism and social issues.
An important part of my artistic process is the selection and construction of the images that I use as references for painting. My work is born from a need to break with the image, which leads me to work from the appropriation of already existing images, images found on the internet that serve as a starting point, which I retouch and decontextualize, looking for new relationships and meanings. , and generating an image different from the original that is outside a certain context or logic.
In my pictorial research, I seek to enhance the characteristics that allude to the intrinsic nature of painting, using a vocabulary that tells us about textures, perspectives, colours, and shapes.
One of my main objectives is to question my work procedures, avoiding the risk of repeating formulas and stylistic conventions. Experiment with new pictorial processes that force me to look for new solutions through new work procedures.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2018
Residence scholarship, training and participation in the Casa de Velázquez. Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby’s Scholarships and Awards. Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró.
Suburb Granada. Archive of visual artists.
Project 4:40. 33. Murcia Foundation.
Accésit: XXIII Painting Prize “Ciutat de Algemesí”.
Finalist: XIX National Painting Prize Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos “. Valencia.
2016
EAN6. VI Encontro de Artistas Novos ‘Cidade da Cultura’. Santiago de Compostela.
Pablo de la Peña de Torres Award. XLIV International Painting Contest Villa de Fuente Álamo. Fuente Álamo, Murcia.
2014
Second prize: XXXII Painting Contest S. Soria ‘Vila de Benissa 2014’. Benissa, Valencia.
Finalist: XV National Painting Prize Real Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos “. Valencia.
Honorable Mention: XVII Painting Prize Mainel Foundation. Valencia
2012
Finalist: XIII National Painting Prize Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos “. Valencia.
Accésit: XIII “Moros Nuevos” Painting Contest. Villena, Alicante.
1st Prize: IX Toledo Puche International Painting Contest. Cieza, Murcia.
2011
1st Prize: XIV Contest Young Painters Fundación Gaceta de Salamanca. Salamanca.
Honorable Mention: XIV Painting Prize Mainel Foundation. Valencia.
Finalist: XII National Painting Prize Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos. Valencia.
2010
3rd Medal of Honor: XII Young Painting Prize of the Chamber of Commerce of Murcia.
Accésit: Contest Creajoven10 Plastic Arts. Murcia.
Honorable Mention: XIII Painting Prize Mainel Foundation. Valencia.
2009
Accésit: Contest Creajoven09 Plastic Arts. Murcia.
2008
Acquired work: III Figurative Painting Contest. Barcelona.
Work acquired: XVI Plastic Arts Award Villa de Rota. Rota, Cádiz
2007
Honorable Mention: X Painting Exhibition Prize Mainel Foundation. Valencia.
Honorable Mention: VII Mostra D’Art Jove Font D’Art. Ontinyent. Valencia.
2006
1st Prize: III Jove Painting Biennial of Manises. Manises, Valencia.
Acquired work: I Figurative Painting Contest. Barcelona.
Honorable Mention: IX Painting Exhibition Foundation Mainel Prize. Valencia.
2005
Talens Grant.
Honorable Mention: VIII Painting Exhibition Foundation Mainel Prize. Valencia.
First Prize: “Mola Joven” Plastic Arts Contest. Molina de Segura. Murcia
2003
Landscape Grant of the Royal Academy of San Quirce. Segovia
2002
Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship. Anotath Scolh Kalwn Tecnwn . Athens.
INDIVIDUAL EXPOSITIONS
2015
Fake . CajaMurcia Foundation. Madrid.
2013
Those who look / Those who look. BJ Art Gallery. Paris.
Miscellaneous works . Palace of Garcigrande. Salamanca.
2012
About – exposed . ES / UM. Space for Art University of Murcia.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2019
ARCOmadrid 2019. Stand 9D01. Gallery T20. Madrid.
SALÓN-TEATRO. The head before the eye. Curator: Sema D’Acosta. Birimbao Gallery. Seville.
XXIV Painting Prize “Ciutat de Algemesí”. Sala d’Exposicions Municipal Casino Liberal. Algemesí, Valencia.
2018
Murcia how beautiful you are. Commissioners: Nacho Ruiz and Carolina Parra. Exhibition hall La Vicaría. Bridge of Génave, Jaén.
Estampa 2018. Stand T20. Madrid.
Trench. Space Zero Gallery. Huelva
No – None Konvent. Barcelona.
XLVI International Painting Contest Villa de Fuente Álamo. Fuente Alamo Museum. Fuente Álamo, Murcia.
Deja vu. Space Zero Gallery. Huelva
XIX National Painting Prize Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia. Espai d’Art Colón. Valencia.
ARCOmadrid 2018. Stand 9D01. Gallery T20. Madrid.
ARCOmadrid 2018. Cultural ABC Stand. Madrid.
XXIII Painting Prize “Ciutat de Algemesí”. Sala d “Exposicions Municipal Casino Liberal. Algemesí, Valencia.
XVII Painting Prize University of Murcia. Almudí Palace Murcia.
2017
Acquisition Awards 2017 – Social Commitment in the Visual Arts of the Mislata Biennial “Miquel Navarro”. Cultural Center of Mislata, Valencia.
3rd Ciutat Vella Oberta Art Biennial. Center of the Carme. Valencia.
HotelxHotel. Factory of Art and Development. Madrid.
Art & Breakfast HotelxHotel. Carmen Thyssen Museum. Malaga.
Art Banchel – On the margin there is a place. Ship 6. Madrid.
Intervention in the MUNDO DE PAPEL project. CENDEAC. Murcia.
XLV International Painting Competition Villa de Fuente Álamo. Pedro Cano Foundation. Blanca, Murcia.
2016
Unheimlich: Visions of the sinister. Space AB9. Murcia.
XLIV International Painting Contest Villa de Fuente Álamo. Pedro Cano Foundation. Blanca, Murcia.
2015
BP Portrait Award 2015. National Portrait Gallery. London.
BP Portrait Award 2015. Ulster Museum. Belfast
BP Portrait Award 2015. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Edinburgh.
2014
BP Portrait Award 2014. National Portrait Gallery. London.
BP Portrait Award 2014. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Edinburgh.
BP Portrait Award 2014. Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. Sunderland.
Art Madrid 14. Gallery 3 Punts. Madrid.
2013
MEAM. European Museum of Modern Art. Barcelona.
ART KARLSRUHE. Gallery 3 Punts. Karlsruhe, Germany.
NEW FIGURATION 3 Punts Galerie. Berlin Germany.
Art Madrid 13. Gallery 3 Punts. Madrid.
2012
Young Painters 1996-2012. Center for Contemporary Art DA2. Salamanca.
DelicARTessen 11. Esther Montoriol Gallery. Barcelona.
Call for Visual Arts and Photography of the Provincial Council of Alicante. Provincial Palace of Alicante. Alicante
2011
BP Portrait Award 2011. National Portrait Gallery. London.
BP Portrait Award 2011. Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Wolverhampton.
BP Portrait Award 2011. Aberdeen Art Gallery. Aberdeen
Encounters.Gallery9. Valencia.
Feminine plural 1999 – 2011. Las Atarazanas exhibition halls. Valencia.
2010
XXXI Contest of Minicuadros. Footwear Museum of Elda. Elda, Alicante.
2008
IX Painting Prize University of Murcia. Almudí Palace Murcia.
XVI Plastic Arts Prize Villa de Rota Mayor Zoilo Ruiz-Mateos Foundation. Rota, Cádiz
2007
IV Painting Contest Contsa Foundation. Sala LA GALERÍA contemporary art. Seville.
V Painting Prize “Jaurena”. Main Gallery Art, Barcelona.
National Painting Prize Ingearte XXI. House of the Province. Seville.
X Painting Exhibition Prize Mainel Foundation. Argent Gallery. Valencia.
III Biennal Ciutat de Carcaixent. Exhibition Hall of the Public Library. Carcaixent, Valencia.
2006
VI Painting Prize “JAURENA” Principal Art Gallery, Barcelona
I Figurative Painting Contest. Fundació de les Arts i els Artistes. Barcelona.
IX Painting Exhibition Prize Mainel Gallery i Leonarte Foundation .. Valencia.
2005
VIII Painting Exhibition Prize Mainel Foundation. AKKA Gallery. Valencia.
2004
III Biennial of Realism and Contemporary Figuration. Key Gallery. Murcia.
II Painting Contest for the Art Fund of the UPV. Polytechnic university of Valencia. Valencia.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Fake. CajaMurcia Foundation. Madrid.
2014 Transient places. Gallery 133. Toronto.
2014 Dans l’interstice du silence. L’Escalier Espace d’Art. Montreuil, Paris.
2014 Lugares de paso. Exhibition Hall El Jardín. Molina de Segura, Murcia.
2013 Those who look / Aquellos que miran. BJ Art Gallery. París.
2013 Miscellaneous works. Palacio de Garcigrande de Caja España – Caja Duero. Salamanca.
2012 Miscellaneous works. Siyasa Museum. Cieza, Murcia.
2012 Sobre – expuestos. ES/UM. Espacio para el arte. University of Murcia.