Antonio Luque Avila Biography

web: http://www.antonioluque.org

Exhibitions

2008 –"In memoriam" Tinglado 4 – With Fidel Solé and Juan Carlos Lozano – Tarragona (Spain). – Associazione Culturale ESPOSTA– Collective – Verona (Italy). 2007 – MX Espai 100 – Collective – Barcelona (Spain). – Galería Antoni Pinyol – Collective – Reus (Spain).

2005 – “Atlas de nubes” – Galería Tau – Individual Tarragona (Spain). – “Wiedergeboren” – Performance – Galería Tau – Tarragona (Spain).

2004 – Galería Tau – Collective – Tarragona (Spain). – “Wiedergeboren” – Performance – Trans-Art BCN’04 – Barcelona (Spain). – “Das Orgien Mysterien Theater” 120 Aktion- Hermann Nitsch – Collaboration – Prinzendorf (Austria).

2003 – “Die haut des Odysseus (Fragment)”– Individual– Sala Eduard Virgili – Tarragona (Spain). – “Die haut des Odysseus” – Ebent’03 – Performance – Barcelona (Spain). – “Futurible”Exp. Galerie F.Universität – Collective – Berlín (Germany). – “Die haut des Odysseus” – Performance – Parc de l’Espanya Industrial – Barcelona (Spain).

2002 – “Die haut des Odysseus” – Europahaus – Individual – Klagenfurt (Austria). – “Joies?” – Centre FAD, Convent dels Angels – Collective – Barcelona (Spain). – “En el camí” – Collective – La Selva del Camp (Spain).

2001 – “Tot en xilografía”– Collective – Escola d’Art, Tortosa (Spain). – “La nit eterna” – Sala Fortuny – Collective – Reus (Spain). – “Cobre” – Hotel Ciutat de Tarragona – Collective – Tarragona (Spain). – “Joies?” – Museu d’Art Modern – Collective – Tarragona (Spain).

2000 – “Insel”, Villa Claudia – Individual – Feldkirch (Austria).

1999 – “Éxtasi und life” – Installation. Tarragona (Spain).

1998 – “La imagen propia” – Collective – Museu d’Art Modern – Tarragona (Spain). – “Gravadors contemporanis de Tarragona” –Galería Poetes – Tarragona (Spain). – “The dança du la Natur” – Installation – Tarragona (Spain).

1993 – “La turbulenta historia del siglo XX” – Installation – Tarragona (Spain).

1987 – “Real fire” –. Performance – Tarragona (Spain).

1986 – “Las fuentes de Tumbuctu” Performance – Tarragona (Spain).

1984 – Galerie Brigitte March –. Individual – Stutgart (Germany). – Leisten & Thiesen – Individual – Münster (Germany). – Hotel de la Ville – Collective – Orleans (France).

1983 – Galería las Cuevas–. Individual – Albacete (Spain).

1982 – Galerie Lampingstr– Collective – Bieldefeld (Germany). – Now Dokumenta – Collective – Kasel (Germany).

1981 – Sala Caixa Tarragona – Collective – Tarragona (Spain).

1980 – Sala Caixa Tarragona – Individual – Tarragona (Spain).

Artist's Statement

Since the 80s, Antonio Luque's work has been characterised by an interest in the human condition: fears and desires, identity, and mystical phenomena, sometimes mingling parts of these elements with others that are purely personal characteristics. But it is from 2002 on when the creation of his work takes a more intimate form with “La piel de Ulises”. This work, done during his recovery from a stress-related shock, encompasses all the situations of anguish and fear, the loss of memory and time that he spent buried in his depression. Since “La piel de Ulises” his work consists of series, always referring to his own environment or to situations either told or lived by people close to him. The Antonio Luque series were carried out over a long period of time and each part was carefully thought-out. Throughout time he structures a work-in-progress which leads him to new ways of art investigation. He has exhibited his work in countries such as France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain. José Leizarrola, art critic.