Diego Arribas Biography

Diego Arribas is an emerging Spanish artist who works in both painting and sculpture. He studied Fine Art, with a concentration in sculpture, at the Universidad Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Later, he also took specialized courses at Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Huesca, Spain, directed by Javier Maderuelo, and courses with Francesc Torres at Universidad Politécnica in Valencia, Spain.

A sculptor and professor of Fine and Visual Arts, he worked for 11 years at the Instituto Salvador Victoria in Monreal del Campo. Since his arrival in Aragon, Spain, the open iron mines of Ojos Negros have become the focus of his artistic work. His artwork is always related to nature, which he uses in his work as a means of communication with the public, as he says, “to return to the basic disciplines using and recylcling materials that people can recognize are ways to connect with them.”

His art is exhibited in museums and collections in France, Spain and Germany.

Solo Exhibitions

2007
- Drawing on the blackboard, Exhibition space at la Caixa Rural de Torrent, Valencia, Spain.

2002
- “Del vacío, del silencio,” Agrupación Artística Aragonesa, Zaragoza, Spain.

2001
- “Memoria del lugar,” Exhibition space at la Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, Torrent Valencia, Spain.

2000
- Laboratorio, Museo Joan Cabré, Diputación General de Aragón, Calaceite, Teruel, Spain.

1999
- De minas... y derviches (Traveling show): Exhibition space of the city of Auffay (Francia), Escuela de Artes in Teruel, Galería "CRUCE" in Madrid and Sala CAI Barbasán. Zaragoza, Spain.

1996
- Sculptures, Centro Cultural de Ibercaja, Teruel, Spain.

Exposiciones Colectivas

2006
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ateneo de Yucatán, Mérida de Yucatán (Mexico).

2005
- Minas de Ojos Negros (Teruel), Arte, industria y territorio 2. Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, “Esto es la guerra”.
- Camins Oberts XIII, Intervencions Plàstiques a Xàbia (Alicante), Spain.
- Palacio Montcada, International Visual Poetry Exhibition, Fraga, Huesca, Spain.

2004
- Second International Contest for Art in Nature, Galería Ulrike Rathert in Berlín and Community of Abtsgmünd, Stuttgart (Alemania).
- Sculpture Installation, Monreal XXI en Monreal del Campo (Teruel), Spain.
- Intervencions Plàstiques a la Marina, Teulada-Moraira (Alicante), Spain.

2003
- II Bienal de Escultura Arte y Naturaleza, Rincón de Ademuz (Valencia), Spain.
- III Abierto de Cruce, Galería CRUCE, Madrid, Spain.

2001
- Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas, 68 SALÓN DE OTOÑO, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, Spain.
I Bienal de Escultura Arte y Naturaleza del Rincón de Ademuz, Valencia, Spain.

1998
- Traveling Show with ArteJiloca Collective in Daroca and Monreal del Campo, Spain.

1997
- Reliefs for the facade of the Casa de Cultura de Monreal del Campo, Spain. Inspiración Jiloca, Casa de Cultura de Daroca (Zaragoza), Spain.

1992
- World Fair in Sevilla, EXPO-92, Pavillion of the Province of Madrid, Spain.
- II Convocatoria de Artes Plásticas del Ayuntamiento de Madrid.
Centro Cultural "Galileo", Madrid, Spain.

1991
- Arte por la Paz, Sala de exposiciones de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Spain.

1988
- Aula de Ecología del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Spain.