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Félix de la Concha (born 1962) is a painter. Born in León, Spain, he resides in Pittsburgh and Madrid.

Félix de la Concha
Félix de la Concha in New Hampshire in 2006
Born (1962-08-20) 20 August 1962 (age 59)
León, Spain
NationalitySpanish and American
EducationFacultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid
Known forPainting
MovementRealism
AwardsRome Prize by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning. Alumni Hall (University of Pittsburgh)
One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning. Alumni Hall (University of Pittsburgh)

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 Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies 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 has also immersed himself in communities, whether in New Hampshire and Vermont, Iowa or Pennsylvania, or in his native Spain. He has portrayed and interviewed Holocaust survivors around the world.[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



Works in museums and public collections



References


  1. Portraits with Conversation. Digital Library University of Iowa
  2. El arte que habla. Diario El País. April 20, 2008
  3. "Public Portraits/Private Conversations. Hood Museum of Art y Baker Memorial Library". Archived from the original on 2016-10-28. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
  4. Portraits and stories from the Shoah. The American Jewish World. March 13, 2013 Archived April 10, 2013, at archive.today
  5. Performance with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra
  6. Felix de la Concha offers an impressive exhibit of paintings of one building: Fallingwater. Pittsburgh City Paper. December 28, 2011
  7. Spanish artist de la Concha captures various moods of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater masterpiece. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 2, 2007 Archived September 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  8. Fallingwater En Perspectiva
  9. Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Pictures at an Exhibition
  10. Audio Interview on Fallingwater
  11. Spanish artist again brushes up on his view of the city. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 4, 2003


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Félix de la Concha (León, 1962) es un pintor español.


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