Anula Mixtura

Ana Torralba Loyo was born in Santander in 1987. She later moved to Madrid where she joined the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Her interest for photography and video began to take shape already in the University of Vigo, period in which she worked with image, creating metaphors of everyday’s life.
In her last year of University, Ana attended the Anotati Scholi Kalon Tehnon in Athens where she created illustrations and collages related to the theme of home life and the everyday.
Nowadays the artist works around this same topic, focusing in the representation of formal and symbolical relationships between the subject, the object and the context.

“When I was a little girl I created a habit when waiting: browsing all sorts of magazines. Since there is a lot of waiting in life, I kept developing this habit until one day that compendium of randomly picked images in my mind finally allowed me to create a signature style, adopting a visual position closer to lowbrow or to pop surrealism. Illustrations, tattoos, comic books and concepts such as retro, publicity and kitsch are always part of my work. Surrounding the idea of home life and the everyday, I mix images as if it was a puzzle to create my own scenery of soft and evoking fantasy.”

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Education and training.
2005-2011, Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain. Currently studying higher degree of illustration at the School of Art. 10
Personal skills:
Native-English / English medium high / basic French.
-Management Of Photoshop, Premiere, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Final Cut, Illustrator. -Excellent Communication skills, interrelation, leadership and initiative.
Excellent teamwork ability, ease of integration in multidisciplinary teams.
Courses:
2007-Course Photography, process b / n in the laboratory of 9 months with a total of 960 hours. 2008-Course layout with InDesign.
2009-Course “media player” by Jose Santiago Iglesias, Santiago de Compostela.
2010-Course “art and furniture” for 4 months with a total of 80h. Department of Architecture
Urban BBAA Pontevedra.
Intensive Course 2011-four months jewelry in bronze in Athens, Greece.
-Scrab Booking during nine hours with Beatriz de La Riva, Leon.
-Scrab Craft course of 30 hours with Beatriz de la Riva, Leon.
2012-painting decorative three-month course comprises 48 hours with Maria Merino
(Studio Gleis decoration), Spirit 23, Madrid.
-course “Recycling targets” 10 months in Basil, Madrid study.
2013-Course Intensive c...

Individual exhibitions:
-2010. Installation, photography, “new areas”, UFO, Pontevedra.
-2010. Project object, Room X, Fine Arts, University of Vigo, Pontevedra. -2011. “Spectros” video-scenery, School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece. -2012. La La Land, Pixley Studios and Cable Studios, London, UK.
-2013. Permanent exhibition “Retro-furnish” study basil, Madrid, Spain. -2013. “La La Land”, Bar Moran, León, Spain.
-2014. “LIKE A VIRGIN” Restaurant Alfolí, León, Spain.
-2014. “RUTINAS ENVASADAS,” Vela Zanetti Foundation, León, Spain.
-2015. “RUTINAS ENVASADAS”, Centroarte Gallery, Málaga, Spain.
-2016. “RUTINAS ENVASADAS”, Magpie Gallery, Márbella, Spain.

Collective exhibitions:
-2006. Collective exhibition, CCOO, Santander, Cantabria.
-2006. Build books visions and versions, Library of the Faculty of Fine Arts,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
-2008. Happening “Anatomy Lesson” Circle of Art Toledo, Toledo.
-2009. Collective exhibition costumes and posters “Anatomy Lesson”, Exhibition Hall,
Faculty of Fine Arts of the UCM. -2009. Collective exhibition, collage, “Anatomy Lesson”
Exhibition Hall of the Faculty Fine Arts, UCM, Madrid.
-2010. Collective “townhouse” Desfunción Festival, collective “batbirulao” P...