Javier Félix (b. 1976) is a Colombian-Spanish visual artist, graduated from the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia in 1998. He has a Master's degree in Visual Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2008). Additionally, he has studied a wide range of artistic approaches ranging from classical art in Florence, Italy, to traditional Native American and pre-Columbian tribal art at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The core of his work is corporality as language, in which the concept of “anthropo-zoomorphism” (transformation) stands out: an essential characteristic of the ancestral art of his country of birth, that he translates into contemporary visual languages and mediums.
His art is experimental, encompassing a multitude of techniques whose practice and development led him to find his own processes, based on mixtures of materials and amalgamations that constitute his own vocabulary to speak about a Multicultural -and yet Universal- life experience. His work has been exhibited in Bogotà, Madrid, London, Lisbon, Santa Fe (New Mexico) and recently in Florence, Italy, where he was selected to participate in its XIV Contemporary Art Biennale, during October 2023.
Spanish Art critic Gregorio Vigil-Escalera wrote about his work: “Javier Félix's work consists of rediscovering the existential archetypes that underlie the human unconscious, and charging them with a new fierceness that circulates between his spectators and himself like an overflowing current of energy".
Artistic Statement: “My work is a meditation about forms in which layered compounds and body amalgamations produce complex beings that are often in the process of a tragic and -sometimes- comical metamorphosis, entrenched in a game of transparencies and hidden layers as substance of their presence, manifested through a hybrid visual language, experimental and playful. Such transfigurations serve as a pivot to establish dialogues within contradictory planes; At these intersections, syncretisms between figural and abstract forms intermingle."
ARTICLES:
https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2021/05/27/60af8a1dfdddff120a8b4582.html
https://www.liceomagazine.com/post/el-arte-de-javier-felix
https://www.stylefeelfree.com/2019/03/justmad-2019-feria-arte.html
https://goyovigil50.com/2023/02/25/javier-felix-1976-todo-sucede-como-el-imagina/?
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EXHIBITIONS- Selection (2019-2023):
“Metaphors for Peace”. Centro Cultural Gabriel García Marquez. Embajada de Colombia en España, Madrid. October-January 24
XIV Florence Biennale. Fortezza da Basso. Florence, Italy. October 2023
Connections 2 Afro-Ibero-AmericaaPGn2 Gallery. Lisboa, Portugal.
2023 Disorganism and its Shadow. Individual exhibition. Perve Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal.
2021-2022 Ante.Visão, Galeria Santa Maria Maior, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Dialogues 2.0, Perve Galeria,
2020-21: Lisbon Cycle celebrating the 100 years of Cruzeiro Seixas - Cem Nadas Perfeitos, Atmosfera m, Lisbon.
2020-21: Global(ism), aPGn2, Lisbon.
EARLIER EXHIBITIONS: 2019-1994
-1994 Exhibition of Cano Artists, National University of Colombia. Bogota Colombia.
-1994 Selected students, León de Greiif Auditorium, UNAL, Bogotá, Colombia.
-1997 XVIII Regional Artists' Hall, old Santa Fe station. Bogotá, Colombia.
-1998 "META-PLASTIC." Individual Exhibition. Wiedemann House, Bogotá, Colombia.
-1998 "DO IT" by Hans-Ulbrich Obrist. In collaboration with Juan Fernando Herrán, Casa de la Moneda, Bogotá, Colombia.
-1999 Selected artists, Comune di Firenze, Florence, Italy.
-1999, Short Films, New York University Auditorium, New York, USA.
-2000 "5 cardinal points" Casa Cuadrada Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
-2001 IAIA Museum Artist Exhibition, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
-2002 IAIA Museum Artist Exhibition, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
-2003. Group exhibition, IAIA Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
-2008 "Observatori" digital art exhibition, Centro del Carmen, Valencia, Spain.
-2008 Photographers, Raiowski Gallery. Valencia Spain
-2011 "Currents 2011" New Media, IAIA Digital Dome. Santa Fe, New Mexico. USA.
-2013, "Indigenous Brilliance", Olocau, Valencia, Spain. (Artist and Curator)
-2015 "Where your eyes take me" Feeding Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
-2015 "A window to Malasaña" Feeding Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
-2015 "Deconstructions of Javi Felix" Nidok Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
-2017. Art Against Oblivion. Boadilla de Rioseco, Castilla León, Spain.
-2018. New York Armory Arts Weeks Stricoff Gallery, New York, Chelsea, USA.
-2018. Studio Art Fair International, Lisbon, Portugal
ART FAIRS:
JustMAD, Neptuno Palace, Madrid | 02/26/2023 Javier Félix with Reinata Sadimba, José Chambel, Bogdan Gulyay, Ivan Villalobos.
London Art Fair. London, UK. 04.24.2022 Javier Félix with Cruzeiro Seixas, Reinata Sadimba, Ivo Basante, Ivan Villalobos
JustLx 2022, Lisbon, Portugal Javier Félix with Figueiredo Sobral, Ivan Villalobos, Reinata Sadimba and Teresa Balté
JustMad 2022, Neptuno Palace, Madrid Javier Félix with Reinata Sadimba and Ivan Villalobos.
Drawing Room Madrid, Palacio Santa Barbara, Madrid. 2021 Javier Félix with Ivan Villalobos and Cruzeiro Seixas.
London Art Fair, London, UK. Javier Félix with Ivan Villalobos, Reinata Sadimba and Liudvika S. Koort. Multimédia Perve Collective, 2020:
JustMad 2022, Madrid, 2019 Javier Félix with Ernesto Shikhani, Reinata Sadimba, Tchalé Figueira, José Chambel and Ivan Villalobos.
