Pedro Pacheco @ artavita

Pedro Pacheco

PEDRO PACHECO
BRIEF RESUME 2012

Pedro Pacheco's artistic career encompasses over forty six years of creativity with paintings and photographs exhibited around the world.

He was born and educated in Spain, and studied at the Fine Art University of Barcelona (Spain). His exhibitions have included the following cities around the world from 1970 to present: London, Antwerp, Glasgow, Venice, Barcelona, Madrid, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and New York. These exhibitions number 23 solo and 58 select group exhibitions.

He has received 16 awards in his career starting with the Silver Medal SENAL 70, where he exhibited with Miro. He received The Card of Gold given to the Best Foreign Artist in Treviso, (Venice) Italy. In 1973 The BBC in London filmed a report on his life and artwork. In 1995 he was invited by the Municipality of Jerusalem as a guest to work in a studio in the International Cultural Residence Mishkenot Sha'ananim.

He created an art installation located in The Caves of Qumram by burying one of his large paintings there. His most recent awards are: First Prize, 70th Annual Open Exhibition National Art League, Douglaston, NY, Second Prize from the Catholic Archdiocese of NY for the 2nd Annual Open Exhibition, and a special award to his career in 2001 from THE POLLOCK KRASNER FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK.

His painting “When the Morning was Broken”, about September 11, is in permanent exhibition in THE PATRIOT MEMORIAL HALL in Washington DC. As an artist-photographer he worked for the previous New York Senator, Mrs. Hillary R. Clinton. In 2006 he received recognition for the quality of his photographs by The Professional Photographer's Society of The State of New York.
2009: Exhibition in Seoul (Korea) A&C Contemporary Art Fair, Artist of the month in NAL New York, Solo Exhibition ,NY.
2010 Glasgow Museum Exhibition 3 artworks (early paintings), also included in Catalogue.

2011 Award of Merit, Open Exhibition in NAL. New York.

His other positions involving art include as gallery director, curator, judge and art critic. He is presently a member of the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts in Queens NY, affiliated with The Smithsonian Institute, where he worked as an exhibition curator in 2008.

He has 38 years of experience in teaching art classes in any media for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. He creates his own programs. He has taught in Schools and the University of Fine Art in Barcelona, Spain. Presently giving classes both individually and groups in National League, Douglaston and privately.

IN SEPTEMBER 2011 TWO OF HIS PAINTINGS IN THE GLASGOW MUSEUM ARE INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL PATRIMONY OF U.K.. ALSO INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL CATALOG.

2012Visual Aids in Cheim & Read Gallery. NY

His artwork is located in Museums in Glasgow, Venice, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Barcelona, also in private collections throughout the world, and in The Collections of The Queen of Spain, Elizabeth Taylor, Stanley Kubrick , Yossi and Shai Carmel (Israel), Juan Sanahuja (Spain) and Arthur C. Clark. He presently lives and works in New York City.

Portfolio:

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STATEMENT

My paintings are a reflection in the search for forms produced by the loss of integrity, of globalization, the lack of security, complexity and the mutation of the values in the world today, so confusing, fragmented, and indecipherable.
I explore the sense of our time, the transcendence of human being, the polarities of these ideas : Destruction and rebirth, glory and shame, sin and redemption.
Creeds and “religions” appear to be configured as alternative mythologies.
There are new pseudo religions and new systems of thought to give a
comprehensive explanation and setup man in the world. Is the men that decide to make a disinterested search for truth that leads them to the Absolute.
The question is to persist in the pursuit of truth, the missing values, the faith and dignity of our human condition. Find the meaning of truth and its foundation for our future.
My paintings are also a visual meditations of a internal and individual vision.
I like the light, the inner light of being that connects to the light of consciousness that is universal.
My paintings are my tool for survival, reflecting perhaps, the passage of time when life hurts to walk the years.
It's like trying to paint a poem on each painting….but in spite of everything, always encourages me in the hope of finding the light in each step.
The only thing that is important to me is to continue working.

In this specific Series: “Contained Experiences” my statement is:
My artworks (photographs and painted photographs) of this series that is title “Contained Experiences” are condensed signs, visual scars. This process does not intend to give a tragic sense of the images, but a way to express the content of the experience gained over the years.
The suffering expressed as fragments of pain in each image speak about life that has passed through the pain and whose biography has been circumscribed in the image, where violence and ambiguity result in new forms and stimuli, as well as a gesture or cry, as desperate communication or dramatic externalization of inner feeling.

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