Juan Nieto-Marín

Throughout the years, the constant purpose in my work with painting or poetry has been "doing": build meanings that refer to the concerns, conscious or unconscious, that dictate the specific circumstances of that time in my life. Plow those rare places that are discovered and representing a mysterious space. And language is the first and last major player in this game of "action". My main interest is then be plotted and discover the mechanisms that builds a sense, the mechanisms by which the language questions the tradition. A process that has a responsibility as goal: to reveal the truth. // A lo largo de los años, el propósito constante en mi trabajo con la pintura o la poesía ha sido “hacer”: construir significados que remitan a las preocupaciones, conscientes o inconscientes, que dictan las circunstancias concretas de ese momento de mi vida. Roturar esos lugares extraños que están por descubrir y que representan un espacio misterioso. Y el lenguaje es el primer y último actor relevante de este juego de “acción”. Mi interés principal es, entonces, trazar y descubrir los mecanismos con los que construye un sentido, los mecanismos con los que el lenguaje interroga a la tradición. Un proceso que tiene como meta y responsabilidad r...

2014 • Course "Material effects of the poem", taught by Olvido García Valdés. Function and language. Madrid. 2011 • "Workshop Composition and live AV performance", given by Regina Blanca Pérez-Bustamante. Casa Encendida. Madrid. 2010: "Artescrituras: Crosses between art and literature". Casa Encendida from 20 to 22 October in time from 18-22 h.2009 • "Action Art Workshop", taught by Esther Ferrer. Casa Encendida. Madrid. 2005 • "Course of musical language and electric guitar" at the School of Creative Music. • Masters in Reading Promotion and Children's Literature. University of Castilla-La Mancha. Cuenca. 2004 • Course of musical language and electric guitar at the School of Creative Music. 2003 • "Painting workshop", conducted by Luis FEGA Alcorcón, Madrid. 2002 • Workshop visual poetry, given by Fernando Millán, Alcorcón, Madrid. 2001 • Master in Publishing. University of Salamanca-Grupo Santillana. Madrid. 1998 • Printing workshop, taught by Erik Kirksaether, Madrid. 1995 • "Chinese painting workshop" taught by Peter Cavaciuti, Cambridge, UK. • "Course of drawing and painting". Cambridge Regional College, UK. 1989 • Degree in Philology. Complutense University. Madrid.

Group Exhibitions:
From 2002-2014 • ST. Book Object. Madrid. 1994 • Competition Villa de Leganes. Madrid. Art Fair-1993 • Santander. Quorum Gallery, Santander. 1992 • Competition Villa de Leganes. Madrid. • Santander Art Fair. Quorum Gallery, Santander.

Solo Exhibitions:
2009 • C. P. TRABENCO. Madrid. 2007 • Organization of American States, OEI, Madrid. 2003 • Center for the Arts. Alcorcón. Madrid. Madrid 1998 • Suiho Gallery. Cambridge, Britain. 1997 • Clare Hall Gallery. Cambridge, Britain. • Brougnton House Gallery. Cambridge, Britain. 1995. • Triangle Gallery. Madrid. • Gallery Tell No One.

Performance:
2012 • "Birds weave your eyes". ABC Museum. March, Madrid. • "Birds weave your eyes". IES Ilíberis Atarfe. April, Granada. 2010 • "With Excuses and texts". Art and Education. CEART. Art Center Tomas y Valiente. May Fuenlabrada-Madrid. 2009 • "Murmurs, words, screams". Three exhibition space in total. December, Madrid • "Night performance". Action Group 15 + 1. Diagonal Space, December, Madrid. 2002 • "Bow down to the sun". Gallery Choferetas, November, Madrid.

Poetry readings:
2013 • Corner Bookstore fox. Poetic cycle, Madrid. 2012 • Oral Storytellers Festival Segovia: Poetry also counts. July, Segovia • "Birds wea...