BIOGRAPHY
Paula Rello (Madrid, 2000) is a visual artist mainly focused on painting and drawing. The figurative style that characterizes her work is gradually merging with a fleeting and carefree graphic approach, sometimes in a childish or cartoon-ish way. Despite her short artistic career, she is full of enthusiasm for the evolution of her work, opening her mind more and more to new processes and graphics. Nevertheless, she has a strong attachment to academicism and the correct application of anatomical concepts, as well as all the essential and technical foundations of painting. “It is necessary to study where we start from in order to change the course towards innovation”.
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ART EDUCATION:
Fine arts at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), as well as Hildesheim Universität (Germany)
Masters degree in Artistic production at Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
Four years of Anatomy, painting and drawing studies at Estudio Nigredo (Madrid, Spain)
PAST EXHIBITIONS:
Exvotos (2020): Group sculpture exhibition organized by the UCM.
Exhibition hall of Las Rozas (Madrid).
Exposición de arte joven (2021): Group drawing exhibition organized by The Ebru. Exhibition hall in Lavapiés (Madrid)
Sketchbook Vol. 1 (2021): Group drawing exhibition organized by Blanco Gallery (London) Available online.
El cuerpo habitado (2021): Group drawing exhibition organized by the UCM
Pérez de la Cultural Center (Madrid)
Respirart (2022): Group painting exhibition organized by Sanofi
Exhibition hall of the Meliá Castilla hotel and later in the Congress of Deputies (Madrid).
Capitalism: The city and Kitsch (2022): Group exhibition on printmaking organized by Hildesheim Universität. At Print+Rahmen Studio. During Documenta 15 (Kassel)
Bienal de Pintura del Principado de Asturias (2022): Collective painting exhibition organized by the Junta General del Principado de Asturias.
Parliament of the General Assembly (Oviedo, Asturias).
VII Salón de pintura realista de Palencia (2023): Group drawing and painting exhibition organized by Avatarte. At Palacio de la Diputación (Palencia, Castilla y León).
XLIV Premio Gredos de Pintura (2023): Collective painting exhibition (Ávila, Spain)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Second prize in local photography contest (2016).
First accesit “Respirart” (2022)
Honors in the Final Degree Project (2022)
Selection in the Biennial Painting Prize of the Principality of Asturias (2022)
Third prize at the VII Salón de pintura realista de Palencia (2023)
STATEMENT
Through my work I try to represent problems of today’s society from a seemingly positive point of view. This is why I like to use rhetorical figures in my painting, as well as childish elements that break with the sobriety of the academic figurativism also present, thus creating a duality between the seriousness of the concept to be represented and the satire with which I approach it. I also search common issues to certain generational groups, gathering a point of view constituted by the subjectivity of those individuals involved. This way I can make sure most people will be able to relate with my paintings.
