Raul Alvarez Jimenez

Painting and drawing is my LIFE. An innate law.

Something burned into my DNA that traps me day after day. Something from which I cannot and do not want to run away.

My job as a painter is my escape valve, it absorbs me and gives me the air I need to express my feelings and try to convey who I am, what I feel and what I am passionate about.

All my work so far has revolved around water, a pure and necessary element for the survival of human beings and other species, a healing and purifying element of the body and soul. In my view, water has several similarities with the different ways of being or behaving that human beings have; We can be kind, pleasant, funny, meek like calm water or destructive, damaging and reckless like the runaway water or the raging sea.

I am interested in the creation of my works with water as a pictorial element due to its difficulty in capturing it in a credible way and the wide range of representation possibilities it encompasses. Creating that binomial together with the human figure which also represents that close, mysterious, complex aspect, both in form and content and with which we all identify, seems very interesting to the viewer. Each of my series talks about different things or states o...

Raúl Álvarez (Madrid-1982)
STUDIES
Bachelor of Arts.
Higher Technician in Plastic Arts - School of Arts and Crafts nº12 (Madrid).

INDIVIDUAL EXPOSITIONS

2019
"Pool". Monty4Arte Gallery (A Coruña).
2017
"Liquid state" Visol Gallery (Orense).
2016
"Water 2.0" Sargadelos Monforte de Lemos Gallery (Lugo).
"Swallowed by Poseidón" Monty4Arte Gallery (A Coruña).
2015
"Dive" Metro Contemporary Art Gallery (Santiago de Compostela).
"Be water!" Sargadelos Gallery (Ferrol).
2014
"Be water, my friend" Movart Gallery (Madrid).
2013
"AIRE" Art Center (Santiago de Compostela).
"Aquamorfosis" Movart Gallery (Madrid).
"The call of Neptune" Cervantes Gallery 6 (Oviedo).
2012
Centro Socio Cultural Pintor Llorens. Sada (A Coruña).
Iskoo Gallery (Lugo).
“Immersion” Club Financiero Atlántico (A Coruña).
2011
“Agua” Aurelio Aguirre Exhibition Hall. Club del Mar de San Amaro (A Coruña).
Casares Quiroga House-Museum (A Coruña).
2010
Regional Center Do Salnés (Cambados, Pontevedra).
Ordes Regional Center (A Coruña).
2009
Expolemos Regional Center (Lugo).
Alenklass Gallery (A Coruña).

COLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2019
Collective exhibition XXIII National Painting Contest City of Antequera (Malaga).
Collective exhibition Francisco Carretero Painting Contest (Madrid).
Collective exhibition "Arte Apart XI". La Carolina Cultural Center. (Jaén).
Group exhib...