Javier Félix

Javier Félix is a Colombian artist, born in Bogotá in 1976, lives and works in Valencia, Spain.

His work creates seamless transits between sculptural and graphic dimensions, relating -in many cases- digital and traditional techniques. His visual and conceptual concerns focus on the human body as "network" of forces and experiences: as a territorial transparency where Myth and Science are intertwined.

His art has iconic references to world philosophy, alchemy and modern art movements. His mixed media and "Digital Codices" are the playground where allegories and anachronistic iconography are playfully put into tension. His project "Box Drawings" , are layered drawing structures that create "volumetric drawings" , where the overlaping graphic layers create new dimensions in the physical and in the semantic sense of the image .In his work, the classic and the modern avant-garde, the pre-columbian art and digital "techniques", are often contrasted, exalted and dramatized while gravitating around questions about time, art history and the relativity of aesthetics.

“Being in the world”, "ageing", "spiritual life", "existencialism", "colonialism (primitive vs. civilized)" and "bodily material finitude", are reiterative concept...

Training 1993-1995. BFA. Faculty of Fine Arts. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia. 1996-1998. BFA Degree. Plastic Artist, Faculty of Fine Arts. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. 1998-1999. Painting, Sculpture and Mixed Media Workshops with Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky.Lorenzo D'Medici Institute. Florence, Italy. 2001-2003. Native American Art and Culture, Institute of American Indian Arts, IAIA, New Mexico, USA. 2009. Master in Visual Arts and Multimedia. Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, UPV. Valencia, Spain.Politécnica de Valencia, UPV. Valencia, Spain.

Exhibitions -1994 Exhibition of Artists Cano, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia. -1994 Selected students, Auditorio León de Greiif, UNAL, Bogotá, Colombia. 1997 XVIII Hall Regional Artists, Old Santa Fe Station Bogotá, Colombia. -1998 "META-PLASTIC." Solo Exhibition. Wiedemann House Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia. -1998 "Do IT" by Hans-Ulbrich Obrist. Collaboration with Juan Fernando Herran, Casa de la Moneda, Bogota, Colombia. -1999 Selected Artists, Comune di Firenze, Florence, Italy. -1999, Short Films, NYU Auditorium, New York, USA. -2000 "5 puntos cardinales" Casa Cuadrada Gallery, Bogota, Colombia. -2001 Exhibition of Artists IAIA Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. -2002 Exhibition of Artists IAIA Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.. -2003. Collective Exhibition, IAIA Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. -2008 "Observatory" digital art exhibition, Centre del Carmen, Valencia, Spain. -2008 Photographers, Photography Show, Gallery Railowski. Valencia, Spain -2011 “Currents 2011” New Media, IAIA Digital Dome. Santa Fe, New Mexico. EEUU. -2013, “Indigenous Brilliance”, Arte nativo contemporáneo, Olocau, Valencia, Spain. (Artist and Curator)-2015 "Dónde tus ojos me lleven" Feeding Art Gallery, Madrid, España. 2015 "Una ve...