Carmen Ibarra

I am a painter born in Valencia, Spain, 1969.
There are some common threads that coincide in the different stages of my pictorial career. One of them is the search for beauty through the behavior of the material itself, without the need to resort to figuration to tell anything, since art should make sense in itself, just like the beauty of any natural phenomenon that It is composed of light, color, matter and form. The other point in common is the use of paper, before as a collage and now as a support.

My first pictorial steps were based on material experimentation, discovering new materials and mixing them so that they had an aesthetic sense was an exciting adventure. I played with the large wooden formats, gluing papers, adding colour, making transfers and using different coatings for industrial use that were integrated into the supports and always looking for the beauty that happens when the materials interact. As my first painting teacher would say, the end justifies the means.

I did the thesis for research proficiency that dealt with this topic and which was entitled "the magic of living matter", directed by Dr. Carmen Grau (Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, but above all a great painter and great woman) and Thanks to t...

2003. D.E.A. UPV
2003. Estancia Académica en el Posgrado en Artes Visuales. UNAM. México. 1999. Licenciada en Bellas Artes por la Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos. UPV
1998. Erasmus en Êcole Superieure des Arts Visuels La Cambre. Bruselas.

2016. Russafart. Valencia.
2016. Exposición individual, Mapas, en Lalaland Ruzafa. Valencia
2014. Intramurs.Valencia.
2014. Exposicion Individual en Sala Melchor Zapata. Benicassim
2014. Russafart. Valencia.
2013. Taller de Carmen Ibarra & Erik Lu. Ciutat Vella Overta. Valencia.
2013. El poder del Rojo. Centro Obrapropia Cultural. Valencia
2013. Sobre Papel. Al Marge, Espai d’Art. Javea.
2013. Sea Flowers. Exposición individual Sala de exposiciones de la oficina de turismo de Oropesa del Mar.
2013. Bibliofilia. Centro Obrapropia Cultural. Valencia 2013. Arte Extendido. Centro Obrapropia Cultural. Valencia 2012. Territorio Femenino. Centro Obrapropia Cultural. Valencia 2012. Arte Extendido. Feria de arte sobre papel. Centro Obrapropia Cultural. Valencia
2012. Art Jaen 2012. Museo provincial de Jaen. 2008. Russafart. Valencia. 2006. Exposición individual en Imprevisual. Valencia.
2005. Foc Expo. Moncofa. Castellón.
2005. Exposición colectiva en Café-Galería Imprevisual. Valencia. 2005. De orilla a orilla. Ca revolta. Valencia. 2004. Foc Expo. Exposición y conferencia: “buceando en la pintura abstracta”. Moncofa. Castellón. 2004. Exposición individual en el Swiss Group Bank. Zurich. 2003. IV Conferencia Internacional d...