Fabian Zolar

I started painting Graffiti at the age of 12.

At that time Graffiti was far away from any acceptance as an art form and was widely considered as being merely a contemporary youth movement and the means for expresing political opinion.
Until I had been able to study finearts at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and the UCLM Cuenca all I knew about graffiti and painting was self taught. During my studies I refined my knowledge of past painting styles and am regarding Graffiti as a logic successor to the predescending art forms.

Graffiti for me is non political - it can, but it does not have to convey an explicit message. In my work I consider Graffiti as purely a language of forms, as the underlying speech system of my painting´s language. A Letter, from which early Graffiti in its purest form derives, could be regarded as a symbol for a representation in the real world - and therefore it could be regarded as figurative (as well as a painting is, like René Magritte demonstrated in "Ceci n´est pas une pipe").

By abstracting the Graffiti Form I am creating the Abstraction of the Abstract, Abstract Graffiti, a purely abstract form, a second level abstraction which with its intricate shapes is my form of 21st century abstracti...

-2015 Fine Art / Master degree, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
-2014 Masterclass / Prof. Eva von Platen (Jochem Hendricks)
-2008-2015 Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg / Germany
-2010/2011 9-months scholarship at the Universidad de Castilla-La-Mancha Cuenca/Spain (Prof. Baldeon)

2019

Impaktes Visuals, Sabadell, Spain
Int. Meeting of Styles Kosovo

2018

Loures Public Art Festival, Portugal
Int. Meeting of Styles Kosovo

2017

Impaktes Visuals, Barcelona , Spain
Int. Meeting of Styles, Madrid

2016

"Opdagelser", Gallery Heike Arndt, Denmark

"Fresh Legs 2016" Group exhibition at Gallery Heike Arndt, Berlin

Int. Meeting of Styles , Wiesbaden

2015

La Fabrica Isleta, Las Palms, Gran Canaria

AEG Nürnberg

Kunstverein Amberg

2014

Jahresausstellung, AdBK Nürnberg

TRIPOL - Erlangen

"Beschönte Tatsachen" - LeonArt Gallery, Nuremberg
2013

Gallery Ilhami Atalay, Istanbul

Weinerei, Nuremberg

Die Vitrine - Nuremberg

Campus Kandinsky - Bayreuth

2012

Prospekt/Vorhang auf - Neues Museum Nuremberg

Jahresausstellung der Adbk Nürnberg

Laufer Kunstpreis

2011

EcoArt Festival (Cuenca/Esp.)

Graffitoledo (Toledo/Esp.)

Jahresausstellung der Adbk Nürnberg

UCLM Cuenca (Cuenca/Esp.)

2010

"Aufbruch", Weinerei Nürnberg, Mai 2010 (Einzelausstellung)

Laufer Kunstpreis

Jahresausstellung der AdbK Nürnberg

2009

Laufer Kunstpreis

Jahresausstellung der AdbK Nürnberg