Javier Aristu

Born in Pamplona and graduate in graphic design in Barcelona, Javier Aristu is a visual (and martial) artist particularly interested in natural tensions, of course between attraction and repulsion but also between idea and form, form and color, color and light, light and shadow, ink and light, analysis and synthesis, cryptic and obvious, choice and renounce, natural and sophisticated, reality and fiction, part and whole, nothing and thing, thing and think, think and feel, conscious and unconscious, memory and oblivion, letters and numbers, pictures and words, words and music, music and time, time and space, energy and matter, chance and destiny, animal and human, female and male, inside and outside, madness and sanity, group and individual, poor and rich, freedom and safety, chaos and order, meaningful and nonsense or even that and this. He plays with photography, graphics, video, audio, objects, writings or series and his work can be categorized into two main areas, one photographic inspired by looking and other conceptual produced by thinking. Among his most conscious influences are Bruce Nauman, Piero Manzoni, Stanley Kubrick, Elliott Erwitt, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Tibor Kalman, Sophie Calle, Luis Buñuel, Henri Cartier-Bresson or ...

University of Barcelona
1992—1993

Elisava School of Engineering and Design
1988—1992

2025
Solo exhibition Disparos lejanos, Sala de Armas de la Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain

2024
Collective exhibition Delicartessen 23, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain

2024
Solo exhibition Retrautos, Casa del Vinculo, Puente la Reina, Navarre, Spain

2024
Solo exhibition Retrautos, Sala de Armas de la Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain

2024
Grant for the Fronton photographic series, Programa Innova by Caja Navarra Foundation and La Caixa Foundation, Pamplona, Spain

2023
Collective exhibition Delicartessen 22, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain

2023
Collective and traveling exhibition Proyecto Kul, San Martin de Unx and Sansol and Burgui, Navarre, Spain

2023
Solo exhibition Mire Oiga, Sala de Armas de la Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain

2022
Collective exhibition Delicartessen 21, Galeria Esther Montoriol, Barcelona, Spain

2022
Collective exhibition Enfoca, Palacio del Condestable, Pamplona, Spain

2022
Collective exhibition Tick of the Clock, Galeria Potassi K19, Barcelona, Spain

2022
Selected work included in the Saatchi Art online gallery, London, UK

2019
Presentation of the book Perlas, Galeria Cromo, Barcelona, Spain

2012
Collective exhibition Libido, Eat Meat Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2011
Collective exhibition Tot...