{"id":15764,"date":"2012-05-01T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ignaciofortun.com\/biografia\/"},"modified":"2017-08-25T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T08:10:38","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ignaciofortun.com\/en\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ignacio Fort\u00fan Garc\u00e9s del Garro<\/h4>\n

Zaragoza 1959<\/h6>\n

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Ignacio Fort\u00fan \u2013Artist from Zaragoza with an artistic career of more than 30 years, from the start linked to figurative art. Landscapes of light and metal.<\/p>\n

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The first steps of this self-taught artist are related to figuration, through works of apparent ingenuousness and \u2013 beneath the surface \u2013 of criticism and irony. With these works he has his first exhibition in Madrid in 1986 at the Ovido gallery, an important gallery in the artistic movement \u201cla Movida Madrile\u00f1a\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Around 1988 with \u201cLimit Landscape\u201d the artist leaves all anecdotic reference behind and throws himself into the contemplated landscape, eager to invoke an emotional reality beyond realism. Under this name the paintings were exhibited in the Madrid gallery Sen. This was the start of a long-term professional relation with the gallery.<\/p>\n

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Having received a grant from the Fundacion Banesto In 1992 grants the artist deepens his treatment of landscapes reducing the chromatic range, obtaining devastated, burned landscapes. He exhibits in Arco and in the Madrid gallery Sen under the title Ceniza H\u00fameda (Humid Ash). The burned landscape leads him to the desert. He mixes images of the Monegros and Almer\u00eda with the deserts of Africa. Light and empty space of two landscapes, at the same time nearby and distant. He exhibits in the Barcelona Senda gallery in 1994. <\/p>\n

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As a result of this work the Spanish Embassy in Indonesia proposes him for a grant in 1996. For three months he paints the rice fields and the woods of Bali.<\/p>\n

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In 1997, Fort\u00fan publishes together with the Sen Gallery the author\u2019s edition \u201cEl verano en una esquina\u201d (\u201cthe summer at a corner\u201d). With this book he discovers both the area where he paints and himself in a process of transformation leading him decisively to the urban landscape and to the investigation into the use of zinc as a pictorial instrument: material and reflected light turn into crucial decisive elements of expression in his work. Barrio y Jardin del obrero (Area and The worker\u2019s garden ( 2000- 2006).<\/p>\n

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The frequent bus trips to Madrid, the obligatory stops at Esteras de Medinaceli and the cheap guesthouses turn into suggestive scenes for the reappearance of the human figure in his new work. Transito (Transition). He exhibits parts of this work in Zaragoza at the Palacio de la Aljafer\u00eda (Miradas sobre la ciudad (Views of the city), 2006). A larger exhibition is organised in the gallery Pepe Reballo (2007). <\/p>\n

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As a result of experiments with light, Fort\u00fan realized various art installations and art productions outside the traditional exhibition places. Two short movies of the film director Domingo Moreno result from this reinterpretation of his work: Jardin del obrero. Pintar con la luz (Paint with the light) (2003) and Vislumbre (Appearance) (2006).<\/p>\n

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In the summer of 2008 he presents the edition of three serigraphs on aluminium in the gallery A del Arte, and he participates with three other painters in \u201cRetratas de Ciudad\u201d (City portraits), Sala Luz\u00e1n, Zaragoza.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition \u201cEl cuadro mudable\u201d (the movable artwork ) at the Centro Cultural Ibercaja (Huesca, 2010), allows one to discover his work once again in the context of a scenographical treatment of the light in the exhibition space.<\/p>\n

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With the series Rural Necesario (necessity of rural life) , Gallery A del Arte, Zaragoza (2011), the artist focuses on the rural environment in a process of reconciliation with the common and the unnoticed   landscape.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”205″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator type=”normal” color=”grey”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”200″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator type=”normal” color=”grey”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”79″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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