Juan José Valencia
about Juan José Valencia
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1980
Juan José Valencia is an artist, curator and editor of network projects. Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of La Laguna. Form an artistic team with the artist Lena Peñate Spicer. Participate in "Crisis? What Crisis? Drawings and other anthropological resources" in TEA Tenerife Space of the Arts and in "Monsters and fossils", Fotonoviembre 2017 in COAC, Tenerife. His work has been exhibited in Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, USA, Cuba and China. Among his exhibitions, “About observation” in ATC Gallery, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in 2018 and "Malestar" in Saro León Gallery, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in 2016; He has also participated in different biennials such as the Jodoigne / Geldenaken Biennale, Belgium; Lanzarote Biennial of Art; Young Art Taipei; Biennial of Havana; II Biennial of Canary Islands of Art, Architecture and Landscape; and in the United States Biennial Garage.
about the artist's works
Artist, curator and editor of network projects, he is interested in social rhetoric and image thinking processes. He understands the pictorial as an interstitial landscape — not self-affirmative — and considers himself a painter who not only paints. Use the walk as a way to approach the problems. In recent years his work has oscillated in the study of representation, the thinking of matter and the strangeness of the real. His inquiry into the study of matter has led him to rehearse on the subject of gravity, space and space race. The problems and responsibility of representation about political acts and their presence in the public sphere are also part of their discourse.