Iván Arévalo
1984, Mexico City.
Iván Arévalo has a degree in visual arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana campus. He received an honorable mention in the VI Bienal Nacional Artes Visuales Yucatán (2013) and was awarded the acquisition prize in Síntoma y Diagnóstico by the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (2009). He has been part of multiple selections in biennials and group exhibitions. His most recent solo exhibition is titled Celebración at El Lienzo Galería (Tijuana, 2024). He was also part of the group exhibition titled Tierras Únicas: Identidades de Baja California (Unique Lands: Identities of Baja California) at the Centro Estatal de las Artes (Rosarito, 2024). His work is developed mainly in the disciplines of painting and drawing. He lives and works from the city of Tijuana, Mexico.
statement
I am an artist dedicated to exploring the connection between objects and their presence in specific places that society gives them relevance, or confers them an emotional, historical, aesthetic and sentimental character. I usually ask myself several questions about how other possibilities arise when combining, assembling and joining objects that have no apparent relationship with each other, placed in urban, natural or dreamlike environments, linking it with vegetation and animals that symbolize the existence of an ancient period before the appearance of human beings, geometric structures of civilizations that are present but that we cannot perceive, but that give. I explore my daily life as a resource to generate these artistic creations through photography, writing and historical references of surrealism, realism and expressionism.
During my attempt to expand the perception of ideas, I implemented techniques in drawing, painting and its various technical modalities, such as acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel and aerosol, as a medium oriented to urban art. Photography is an essential element that is linked to writing to generate the concept, while sculpture is used to abstract forms of a specific interest in the work I intend to create.
The work is an instrument capable of generating questions about the reason for the symbols, the reason for the objects selected in certain environments, the notion of solitude, the notion of emptiness, the notion of the monumental, the strong, the weak, are timeless themes that have an identifiable value with the purpose of exploring horizons beyond the sense we perceive of them.
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