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ADELA ARRUFAT
 | Biography: Adela Arrufat Gracia, Castellon, Spain 1975.
“Opening for an instant a window into our lives can surprise us.”
My great admiration for the classical masters combined with my extensive painting studies helped
me chose the methods and techniques to express emotions,explore and research techniques on oil
painting.
I seek the "beauty" of moments in everyday life. I am escaping the standards set by the image culture
and fashion. The ugliness, the grotesque, sadness, the pass, the joy, pain, mood, anxiety, hope, all
intimate dimensions of people and things shape the thoughts of "beauty." The moments of everyday
life, without losing perspective that they are not eternal.
At the beginnings of my career my paintings were very influenced by sober Spanish painting
tradition, I now explore light in dramatic but realistic paintings softened plastically. I am influenced
by Norman Rockwell in his social realism and at times Edward Hopper in his solitude. Introspection
reflected in the other through figurative painting.
BACKGROUND
2001 - 2006 Degree of Advanced Studies in Arts (DEA), Painting Department of the College of Fine
Arts of San Carlos, Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain
1995 - 2000 Bachelor in Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts of San Carlos, Valencia Polytechnic
University, Spain.
Country: Spain Birthyear: 1975 Galleries: EXHIBITIONS
2013
Solo Exhibition "Instants" , Crary Art Gallery, Warren, Pennsylvania, Usa.
2012
Solo Exhibition "Instants", Spanish Benevolent Society, The Centro Español, New York City, Usa.
2010
Exhibition "Unwrap Your Mind" Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong.
2008
Solo Exhibition room, spa Benlliure Chulilla, Valencia, Spain.
2007
Solo Exhibition room, spa Benlliure Chulilla, Valencia, Spain.
2005
Group exhibition, Regional Directorate of Culture and Education of Castellón, Spain.
Solo exhibition room, spa Benlliure Chulilla, Valencia, Spain.
2004
Group exhibition, young space of the City of Salamanca, Spain.
2002
Group Exhibition, Casal Jove, Grao Castellón, Spain.
2000
Solo Exhibition, Nou Café, Benicassim, Castellon, Spain.
Solo Exhibition, Kandinsky café, Castellón, Spain.
1999
Exhibition "Pass-Art," Association of Friends of Nature, Castellón, Spain.
Solo Exhibition, Kandinsky coffee, Castellón, Spain.
1998
Exhibition "Graphic Expressions" Circulo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain.
Group Exhibition of landscapes (oil), Cultural Center of Eliana, Valencia, Spain.
Exhibition "Anonymous and phonies," Josep Renau Room, Faculty of Fine Arts Valencia, Spain.
Exhibition "Anonymous and Phonies," Hall Navela, Buñol, Valencia, Spain.
Solo Exhibition, Café Canada Benicasim, Castellón, Spain.
Media: oil Style: realistic Subjects: people, portraits and characters |
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