BIOGRAFÍA
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La obra de Nuria Meseguer ( 1973, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) surge como un anhelo de representar plásticamente lo que comenzó como un juego desde la infancia en el taller de su padre, artista de paisajes con espátula.
De las acuarelas pasó al óleo en su licenciatura en Bellas Artes (Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife), dando lugar a la serie submarina por la que es conocida, donde combina ambas técnicas para representar la ingravidez de los cuerpos en la inmensa abstracción azul de la Naturaleza, manteniendo en sus obras “medioambientalistas” ese equilibrio ahora perdido por el “desarrollo”.
En los años 90 memorizaba en su sketchbook los cuerpos bajo el agua, facilitándose más adelante el proceso con las cámaras submarinas desechables y finalmente con las digitales a partir del 2005, donde comienza a profundizar en la faceta psicológica de la obra.
Desde su primera exposición individual (El Almacén, Lanzarote 2002), el agua ha sido el telón de fondo donde se despliegan los diferentes estados emocionales, que varían según las posturas de los protagonistas y los colores del mar que los envuelve.
Así, se alternan en su trayectoria los azules, ligeros o profundos, los apasionados rojos y los dramáticos negros de ‘Abysal’(2017),su última individual en el SAC (Sala de Arte Contemporáneo, Tenerife),un viaje a las aguas internas donde habitan los miedos inconscientes, obra basada en la Teoría de la Sombra de C. Jung y la de David R. Hawkins sobre la polución externa como reflejo de la interna.
En su dedicación exclusiva al arte durante 30 años cuenta con varios primeros premios de pintura y nueve exposiciones individuales en Canarias, reportajes sobre su obra en magazines de arte nacionales e internacionales como L'Art del'Aquarelle ó Geo, así como exposiciones colectivas en Gallerie Harinxma (Holanda.2015), Art3FBourdeaux 4ª Edition (Francia,2018), Present Art Space Gallery (Florencia, Italia. 2012), City Hall Montmartre (Francia, 2009), en Principal Sombreres Gallery (Barcelona, 2002), Sui Géneris Gallery (Ibiza, 2004-2005), en Madrid en la galería MadaPrimavesi (2011) y Palacio Cibeles (2016), y en Amberes, en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes (Bélgica, 1996).
Encargo de una obra en gran formato puede visitarse en su colección permanente para los fondos de arte del Plattsburgh State Art Museum, New York.
Actualmente trabaja mayormente por encargo en retratos submarinos, además de obras de pequeño formato y la investigación del propio proceso de la obra.
BIOGRAPHY
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Nuria Meseguer's artwork (1973, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) arises from a desire to represent plastically what began as a game from childhood in the workshop of her father, a landscape artist with a spatula.
She went from watercolors to oil in her Fine Arts degree (Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife), giving way to the underwater series for which she is known, where she combines both techniques to represent the weightlessness of bodies in the immense blue abstraction of Nature, maintaining in his "environmentalist" works that balance now lost due to actual "development".
In the 90s she memorized the underwater bodies in her sketchbook, later facilitating the process with disposable underwater cameras and finally with digital ones from 2005, where she began to delve into the psychological facet of the work.
Since her first individual exhibition (El Almacén, Lanzarote 2002), water has been the backdrop where the different emotional states unfold, which vary according to the postures of the protagonists and the colors of the sea that surrounds them.
Thus, the blues, light or deep, the passionate reds alternate in her career, as well as the dramatic blacks of 'Abysal' (2017), her last solo show at the SAC (Sala de Arte Contemporáneo, Tenerife), a journey into internal waters where unconscious fears live, a paintings based on C. Jung's Shadow Theory and David R. Hawkins's on external pollution as a reflection of internal pollution.
In her exclusive dedication to art for 30 years, she has won several first prizes and nine individual exhibitions in Canary Islands, reviews on her work in national and international art magazines such as L'Art del'Aquarelle or Geo, as well as collective exhibitions at Gallerie Harinxma (Holland. 2015), Art3F Bourdeaux 4ª Edition (France, 2018), Present Art Space Gallery (Florence, Italy. 2012), and City Hall Montmartre (France, 2009), at Principal Sombreres Gallery (Barcelona, 2002 ), Sui Géneris Gallery (Ibiza, 2004-2005), in Madrid at the MadaPrimavesi gallery (2011) and Palacio Cibeles (2016), and in Antwerp, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Belgium, 1996).
A large-format work commissioned for the art collections of the Plattsburgh State Art Museum is permanently exhibited, New York .
She currently works mostly commissioned with underwater portraits, in addition to small-format works and the investigation of the process of the work itself.
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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1973.
Master in Fine Arts University La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain) . 1991-1996
Erasmus at Royal Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen Bélgium. 1995-1996.
PRIZES
2014 Finalist in Atrium’14. 6º Arts Contest Maphre Guanarteme’s Fundation , Canary Islands, Spain
2012 Finalist XXXIII Edition National Painting Prize "Enrique
Ginestal". Toledo. Spain.
2007 1er Prize 8º PAINTING CONTEST PUERTO DE LA LUZ "SEABED", La Regenta, Canary Islands, Spain
1999 1er Prize SANTA CRUZ JOVEN’99, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
1996 Erasmus Proyect. Royal Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten,
Antwerpen, Bélgium.
1994 1er Prize XI YOUNG CONTEST “PUERTO DEL ARRECIFE”, Lanzarote,
Canary Islands, Spain
1990 1er Prize VII YOUNG CONTEST “PUERTO DEL ARRECIFE”, Lanzarote.
Canary Islands, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 ART3F BOURDEAUX 4ª EDITION with Art Cuestion Gallery, Bourdeaux, France
2017 +F POST-CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS IN THE CANARY ISLANDS, San Martín Culture Center, Canary Islands, Spain.
2017 ALQVIMIA, a work selected for the opening and permanent exhibition of The House of Culture, Canary Islands, Spain.
2016 SUMMER EXHIBITION, Fine Arts Circle, Canary Islands, Spain.
2016 ALLIES, WOMEN WHO CHANGE THE WORLD, Cibeles Palace, Madrid, Spain.
2015 ARTWEEKEND BEETSTERZWAAG 2015, Holand.
2014 #ONTHEDRAW, 7 internacionales Artists + 7 Canary Islands artists. London, Madrid, Berlín
2013 SURF FILM FESTIVAL, La Concepción, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
2012 CARLY ART GARDEN , 12 artists from Holland, Sweden..
2012 AQA . Present Art Space Gallery, Florence Italy.
2011 DREAM IN A SUMMER NIGHT, MadaPrimavesi Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2009 DOLORES, Domestic Violence. City Hall, Montmartre, París, France.
2008 ARTIFARITI 2008 II International Art in liberated territories Western Sahara, Tifariti and refugee camps, Argelie
2006 CURIOSITY, KromGallery, Stª Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
2004-2005 Permanent Exhibition in Sui Géneris Gallery. Ibiza., Spain.
2002 SMALL SIZES, Principal Sombrerers Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
1996 SOMETHINGONETHING, Royal Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, Bélgium.
1994 COLECTIVE, School Quantity Surveyors Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 ABYSAL. Contemporary Art Gallery Government of the Canary Islands, Spain
2014 CORNERS OF WATER 2014, Small Sizes , Museo El Grifo, Lanzarote. Canary Islands, Spain
2012 ECSTASY, Cuadro Gallery, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Canary Islands, Spain
2011 THE HIDDING OF MERMAIDS. Cuadro Gallery, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria y Ermita de San Antonio. Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
2009 IN THE SEA AS WELL AS IN HEAVEN. La Caldereta, Canary Islands, Spain
2008 WITH YOU. LUROA Gallery. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Canary Islands, Spain
2007 LAGO MARTIÁNEZ. Permanent Exhibition in Property, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife. Spain.
2006 ANONYMOUS SOULS La Guayaba Gallery, Stª Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
2002 NURIA MESEGUER, El Aljibe Gallery, CIC El Almacén, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
PRESS AND BOOKS
2017 "ABYSAL"; Exhibition catalogue with text by the author, poems by Iñaki Garzía Furia and Lola Benítez Mendez.
2016 "THE ART OF WATERCOLOR", "Nuria Meseguer: Watercolor meets Oil!", France (nº 24)
2016 GEO (German edition) , Germany
2016 ESTILO Magazine, nº 10, (with newspapers La Provincia y La Opinión), March. Canary Islands, Spain
2013 PELLAGOFIO Magazine, nº 9, April-May Canary Islands, Spain
2013 VISION MARINA, NURIA MESEGUER, Canarias Creativa, nº 23,
November, Canary Islands, Spain
2013 COMMISSION OF THE CARNIVAL POSTER, Canary Islands Goverment
2012 PRACTIQUE DES ARTS, Nº 104. Autor: Elodie Blain, “Plongeé en Eau
Claire”.France
2011 CAPRICHOS DE MAR. MEERESLAUNEN. Cover and illustrations
book. KonkursbuchVerlag Claudia Gehrke. (Germany – Spain)
2011 L'ART DEL'AQUARELLE Nº9 . Autor: Laurent Benois, "Tour du monde de
l'aquarelle, 16 artistes, 10 nacionalités", France
2010 NU2.Nº 16. Magazine of Sea and Art. June-July . Autor: Nuria Meseguer,
"Verano / Summer".
2010 MASSCULTURA. Nº 28 Cover and articles. Autor: Teresa Arozena :"Return of the Sea" and Nuria Meseguer: “As Well as In the Sky, in the Sea”
2009 WOMAN Magazine, Spain. Nº 199. Living Solidarias. autor: Valeria Saccone.
"Nuria Meseguer: La Fuerza del Mar”