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History
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, Jaén, Andalusia
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) is a Spanish artist and poet. Casas recreates photographs he's taken as large scale oil paintings on canvas, as well as similarly scaled drawings using only blue ballpoint pens. The drawings and paintings are created in photo realistic style most of them as large as 10 feet.
Education
Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz graduated with a B.A. and a M.F.A. from theUniversity of Granada
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. He subsequently completed his PhD at the university in 2004, while also holding a teaching position there. During his studies he won the National Award
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of the Ministry of Education and Science for the best graduate qualifications in Spain, presented by Culture Minister Pilar del Castillo
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.
Professional career
Since 2000, he has exhibited his work at museums all around the world, like the Museum Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung inMunich
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, Kunsthalle Emden (Germany
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), the Kunsthal
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Overview
The museum is situated in the Museumpark of Rotterdam next to the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, and in the vicinity of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuni ...
Rotterdam
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), the Cube Museum Seongnam Arts Center, Seongnam
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, (South Korea), the Da2 Museum in Salamanca
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and the ARTIUM in Vitoria (Spain). He represented Spain at the 2nd Prague Biennale The Prague Biennale is an international art exhibition in Prague, Czech Republic, held in alternate (odd-numbered) years. It was founded in 2003 by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi. It is supported by the Czech Minister of Culture and the City ...
(curated by Flash Art Magazine and Giancarlo Politi) and has received numerous international awards: Prize of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the ABC Painting Prize. and the Scholarship of the College of Spain in Paris. He has published poetry books and curated exhibitions with artists such as Joseph Kosuth
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and Nobuyoshi Araki
is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist professionally known by the mononym . Known primarily for photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context, he has published over 500 books.The number depends on such things ...
. His work can be found in the Artium Museum
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, Vitoria, Museo ABC
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, Madrid, Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Collection of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, Absolut Collection, etc.
References
External links
*Villa, Manuela (2007). ''Emerging Art in Spain''. Madrid: Vaivén.Juan Francisco Casas in Artfacts
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