Manuel Olivares

The soul and the instinct, often considered as one thing, are very distinct to me. I have always considered the instinct most useful to defense than to creation; like a computer program, an antivirus, ready to go when there's no more time to think or, worse, there's no more desire to do it.
I consider instinct, not only in art, responsible for automatisms, repetitions ... stasis.
I consider instinct the most conservative part of our SOUL.

Loads of color, clean, over-excited by their "modernity", alone!
What interests me is the way in which my works are placed in the eyes of the user, their "attitude".
My work is mainly focused on the urban landscape, plastic chairs, shutters, light poles, buildings, terraces, barriers and everything that anonymously populates our daily vision.
The space itself does not have geometrical interruptions, boundaries and limits except in the perception of the beholder. At different distances different realities and therefore different boundaries,

as the historical periods and the different interpretations that are made over the centuries.

The boundaries between things, the diversifications that take shape in our eyes when we look around us are only one of the many points of view that space...

MANUEL OLIVARES - Artist included in the list of artists Professionals for the award of construction works of art quests (GC 150 of April 5, 2006) VI Department of Planning Policy and Planning of the Territory - ROME CAPITAL PROGRAMS UO8- COMPLEX

DEGREE IN HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ORSOLA BENINCASA NAPOLI

MAGGIO 2021
MENZIONE SPECIALE CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE ZEPTER MUSEUM – ARTZEPT 2020 - ART WALL ISTALLATION
GENNAIO 2021
Selezionato per “Not so ordinary objects” - FMB Calleery - a cura di Francesco Maria Boni
NOVEMBRE 2020
Riconoscimento al Merito Speciale della Giuria - “APOLLO DIONISIACO” Accademia Internazionale di Significazione Poesia e Arte Contemporanea
PROMOSSA DALL’ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA DI NEW YORK
IN CONVENZIONE FORMATIVA CON CON L’UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TRE – PATROCINIO DELLA REGIONE LAZIO E DI ROMA CAPITALE - CASTELLO DELLA CASTELLUCCIA ROMA
AGOSTO/NOVEMBRE 2020
HUMAN RIGHT - THE FUTURE’S SHAPE Comitato Italiano di IAA/AIAP UNESCO Official Partner
Presso la Campana dei Caduti di Rovereto ROVERETO
LUGLIO 2020
DomaniInArte – partecipazione con opera inclusa nel video proiettato il 28 luglio 2020 presso la
BIBLIOTECA / SALA VIDEO della Galleria d’ Arte Moderna Di Roma - ROMA
DICEMBRE 2019
Serrone di Reggia Reale MONZA – Angeli a cura di Daniele Crippa
AGOSTO 2019
Musée de Peinture de Saint-Frajou - RESILIENCE
MAGGIO 2019
“UN CAFFE’ CON MANUEL OLIVARES” PROIEZIONE VIDEO E ESPOSIZIONE OPERE - CASA LAVAZZA – PALAZZO MARIGLIANO - NAPOLI
OTTOBRE 2018
VINCITORE GARA PER OP...