Galerie1. Galerie2 .  Espagne / Spain. Artistes    

Born in 1966 in Madrid, Spain. 

Studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid from 1981 to 1983, and at the Estudio Arjona from 1983 to 1989.

After a rigorous selection process she got scholarships to study at the Estudio Arjona:

Statues, Human Figure Drawing, Still Life Painting and Personal Interpretation Painting.

From 1989 to 2002 she studied the following courses: intensive painting course with Dª Mª Luisa Esteban in the Monastery of Polo, Pontevedra; Group Studies, Venetia Biennale; Oliver Mosset, New York; Intensive painting courses in Paris, France; Fine Arts Circle, Madrid; Intensive Course of Contemporary Art with Mr. John Armleder; Kassel Documenta Studio and a Complete 3D Course with Joaquin Carnicer. Produces diverse and very complex artistic animations, digital photography and a vast digital artistic production, Madrid. 

SOLO SHOWS: 

1993 Austellungrsraum Art Gallery. Harry Zellweger. Basilee. Switzerland. 

1993 Anselmo Alvarez Art Gallery (june). Madrid. Painting, installation and Performance, Spain. 

1993 Anselmo Alvarez Art Gallery (july). Madrid. Painting, installation and Performance, Spain. 

    Francisca Blázquez produces a video-performance specially created for Anselmo Alvarez Art Gallery.

 The Anselmo Alvarez Art Gallery installation pursues time/space relationships and 

the transformation of the dichotomy color/form as the dynamic entity of her creation. 

1994 Verena Hoffer Art Gallery. Barcelona. Painting. Catalunya-Spain. 

1995 Gayo Arte Art Gallery. Painting. Madrid. Spain. 

1996 Ateneo de Madrid. Sala de Exposiciones de Santa Catalina. Painting. Spain. 

1997 Cuatro Diecisiete Art Gallery. Painting, sculpture, performance and video-performance. Spain.         

  Francisca Blázquez performs structuring space and movement with geometrical relationships for the Cuatro Diecisiete Art Gallery. The Choreography relates to overcome the structural limitations through gesture and color just keeping its substance. 

  She gets the video-performance as the last result of her performance. Which is screened

along the whole exhibition. 

1997 Espai Miquel Gaspar Art Gallery. Barcelona. Catalunya-Spain. Painting. 

1998 Casa do Cultura do Brasil. Madrid.Spain. Painting. 

1999 Galería d'Art Antoni Pinyol. Reus. Tarragona. Catalunya-Spain. 

2000 Space, Francisca Blázquez. Madrid. Spain. 

2001 Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo de Santa Marta. Colombia. Painting. 

2001 Museo de Cartagena de Indias. Colombia. Painting. 

2001 G. Body Factory. Madrid. Painting, installation, performance, art-object, space transformation.

Francisca Blázquez produces an allegoric installation to the Spring of more than 250 square metres on painted plastic sheets and industrial sailclothes structured to the Body Factory building interior; the artist develops a particular installation

from painting to a dense sculpture which changes and tranforms the surrounding space

as the main character. Space is the real installation and the painted surfaces

the introduction to make easy for the viewer to enter the world of the artist.

Also she produces two videos: The first realized by spanish photographer

Ricardo Santonja from a choreography designed by Francisca Blázquez on the same theme and played by the Dancer Natalia from the Goya Prizes. The other one realized by

the Art Critic Joan Lluís Montané from the same choreography to the Spring

played by Francisca Blázquez. 

Art Object. To complete the performance and the already mentioned installation the artist

included different elements from the building that once out of context got an autonomy by themselves.

Objects inside Art object relationships.

Painting exhibition and structuring of dynamic combinations painting-installation-art object. 

2001 I.E.S. 'Marqués de Comares'. Lucena. Córdoba. Spain. 

2001 Kultur Etxea. Gernika-Lumoko. Biskaia. Euzcadi. Spain. 

2001 Pau d'Arara Art Gallery. Madrid. Spain. 

2002  Iberjoya-september. Madrid. Spain. 

2002. Espaço Lóios Art Gallery. Oporto. Portugal. 

2002. Berruet Pavillion Art Gallery. Lineart. Gante-Gent. Belgium. 

2003 Galería 21. Córdoba. Andalucía. Spain. 

2003 Galeria d'Art Paqui Delgado. Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. Barcelona. Catalunya. Spain. 

2003 Rina Bouwlen Art Gallery. Madrid. Spain. 

2003 Museo Guantanan Ponga. Concepción del Uruguay. Argentina. 

2003 Museo de Barranquilla. Barranquilla. Colombia. 

2003 Bolsa de Comercio.Buenos Aires. Argentina. 

GROUP SHOWS AND FAIRS: 

-           Along all this years Francisca Blázquez has participed in around 200 group shows in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland.

-           2002. American Prints. Art Supermarket. Madrid. Spain. 

-           2002. Balcón Norte. Las Merindades and Valdivielso Valley. Burgos. Castilla y León. Spain. 

-           2002. 'Paraguas Intervenidos'. Rafaela. Argentina. Travelling exhibition to 10 argentinian cities. 

-           2002. EVA. Iberjoya. Madrid. Spain. 

-           2002. EVA. Feria de València. València. Spain. 

-           2002. EVA. Calamocha. Teruel. Aragón. Spain. 

-           2002. Castillo de Lucena. 'Hilaron Solas III'. Lucena. Córdoba. Andalucía. Spain. 

-           2002. 21 Art Gallery. Printmakers show. Córdoba. Andalucía. Spain. 

-           2002. Center for Islamic studies. Madrid. Spain. 

-           2002. Galería Arte Empresa. Córdoba. Argentina. 

-           2002. Printmakers group show. Rina Bouwlen. Madrid. Spain. 

-           2002. FAIM Third Edition. Feria de Arte Independiente en Madrid. Madrid. Spain. 

-           2002. Espaço Lóios. Oporto. Portugal. 

-           2002. Public Space Collection. Albacete. España. 

-           2002. Serres-art Art Gallery. Chairman: Montse Serres. Barcelona. Spain. 

-           2003. Iberjoya Fair. 'Tonet'. Madrid. Spain. 

-           2003. EVA. 'Second Skin'. Córdoba. Andalucía. Spain. 

-           2003. Galería d'Art i Antiguetats Paqui Delgado. Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. Catalunya. Espanya. 

-           2003. Bolsa de Comercio. Buenos Aires. Argentina. 

-           2003. Centro Colombo Americano. Barranquilla. Colombia 

-           Related to her participation in Art Fairs she has exhibited at ARCO, 

        with Anselmo Alvarez Art Gallery from Madrid; COLONIA Art Fair (Germany), with Galeria d'Art Contemporani

        Antoni Pinyol de Reus (Tarragona-Spain) and Lineart, Gent-Gante (Belgium)

        Berruet Pavillion Art Gallery from Logroño directed by Mateo Berrueta. 

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: 

Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Córdoba, Tarragona, Girona, Reus, Lleida, Logroño, Gernika); France (París); Switzerland (Basilee); Germany (Mannheim); Portugal (Oporto); Argentina (Rafaela, Concepción del Uruguay and Córdoba); Colombia (Santa Marta) and United States. 'Gentes de Forastía' Collection. Anaite. La Rioja. Chairman: Mateo Berrueta. Spain. 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS: 

U.B.S. Unión Bancos Suizos. Madrid. Spain. 

Cooperación Bancaria Suiza. Barcelona. Spain. 

Corporación Bancaria de España. Argentaria. Madrid. 

Private Companies from Basilee. Switzerland. 

Contemporary Art Museum from Japan. Marugame Hirai. Japón. 

Ánfora Nova Museum. Rute. Córdoba. Andalucía. Spain. 

Kultur Etxea Gernika-Lumoko. Bizkaia. Euskadi. Spain. 

Gentes de Forastía. Anaite. Logroño. La Rioja. Spain. 

Lucena City Hall. Córdoba. Andalucía. Spain. 

Paqui Delgado Art Gallery. Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. Barcelona. Catalunya. Spain. 

Berruet Pavillion Art Gallery. Logroño. La Rioja. Spain. 

Espai Miquel Gaspar. Barcelona. Catalunya. Spain. 

Fundación Iberoamericana para el Desarrollo. FIDE. Madrid. Spain. 

'Marqués de Comares'. Lucena. Córdoba. Andalucía. Spain. 

4/17 Art Gallery. Madrid. Spain. 

Anselmo Alvarez Art Gallery. Madrid. Spain. 

Verena Hoffer Art Gallery. Barcelona. Spain. 

Austellungsraum Art Gallery. Basilee. Switzerland. 

Ateneo de Madrid. Sala de Exposiciones Santa Catalina. Madrid. Spain. 

Antoni Pinyol Art Gallery. Reus. Tarragona. 

Casa do Cultura do Brasil. Madrid. Spain. 

Museo Bolivariano de Arte de Santa Marta. Santa Marta. Colombia. 

Painting. Ayuntamiento de Cadalso de los Vidrios. Comunidad de Madrid. Spain. 

Sculpture. La 'C' de Cadalso. Ayuntamiento de Cadalso de los Vidrios. Comunidad de Madrid. Spain. 

Rina Bouwlen Art Gallery. Madrid. Spain. 

Serres-art Art Gallery. Directed by Montse Serres. Barcelona. Spain. 

Dirección Obligatoria. Albacete. Spain. 

(Translated by Alberto Cerritos)