Alejandro Guijarro

Alejandro Guijarro
Born 1979
Madrid, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Education MFA Photography, Royal College of Art
Movement Contemporary Art
Website www.alejandroguijarro.com

Alejandro Guijarro (born 1979) is a Spanish contemporary artist who currently works between London and Madrid.

Early life

Guijarro was born in Madrid, where he began his artistic education at the Escuela de Arte N10, completing a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design in 2004. He then moved to London to attend the Royal College of Art, where he graduated from the MFA Photography programme in 2010.[1]

Major works

His first major series, Momentum, received international critical acclaim, and can be found in the permanent collections of Saatchi Gallery, London,[2] the Frank Suss Collection, New York City/London,[3] and the Goetz Collection, Germany. Over the course of three years, between 2012 and 2015, Guijarro travelled to various quantum mechanics institutions around the world – from Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom, to CERN in Switzerland, and MIT and UC Berkeley in the United States[4][5] – photographing the blackboards as he found them, and reproducing them at 1:1 scale.[6][7][8]

Momentum has been exhibited at Tristan Hoare, London, in 2012,[9]at the Google Headquarters, New York and at The Contemporary Collectors Club, New York in 2013, and at Marlborough Gallery for PHotoEspaña15 in Madrid in 2015.[10][9]

His second photographic series – LEAD – will be shown in Spring 2017 at Tristan Hoare.[11] For this, Guijarro visited the conservation departments at the Louvre, the Prado Museum and The National Gallery and photographed the X-rays and infrared scans of many prominent Old Master paintings, including the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, the Annunciation by Robert Campin, and Adam and Eve by Peter Paul Rubens.[12]

Alejandro Guijarro, P01692a00xf2006 (Adam and Eve), 2016

Publications

Zine by Guijarro

Publications with contributions by Guijarro

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Malone, Theresa "Alejandro Guijarro's Best Photograph", "The Guardian" Retrieved February 8th 2017
  2. ↑ http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/alejandro_guijarro.htm?section_name=new_order"Artists" Retrieved February 6th 2017
  3. ↑ http://franks-suss.com/the-collection/europe/alejandro-guijarro/"The Collection", Retrieved February 7th 2017
  4. ↑ Sheerin, Mark "Artist's Statement", "Culture 24" Retrieved February 5th 2017
  5. ↑ Faena, Aleph "Photographer Resolves to Capture Quantum Physics", Retrieved February 5th 2017
  6. ↑ Alderson, Rob "Alejandro Guijarro Photographs Blackboards used by the Best Quantum Physicists for his Momentum series", "It's Nice That" Retrieved February 8th 2017
  7. ↑ Brooks, Katherine "Here’s A Way To Appreciate Quantum Mechanics Even If You Know Nothing About Science" "The Huffington Post" Retrieved 9th February 2017
  8. ↑ Schiller, Jakob "Quantum Chaos on Display in Top Physicists' Chalk Scrawls" "Wired (magazine)" Retrieved February 9th 2017
  9. 1 2 Cambell-Dollaghan, Kelsey "Photos of Physicists Blackboards Reveal the Ghosts of Theorems Past" "Fast Co Design" Retrieved February 8th 2017
  10. ↑ Jobson, Christopher "Momentum: Large Format Photos of Chalkboards from Quantum Mechanics Institutions by Alejandro Guijarro" Colossal (blog), Retrieved 7 February 2017
  11. ↑ https://www.list.co.uk/event/20934505-alejandro-guijarro-lead/Retrieved 9th February 2017
  12. ↑ http://tristanhoaregallery.co.uk/exhibitions/lead/Retrieved February 9th 2017
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