Rómulo Celdrán, solid 1, polychromed polyurethane and resin, 153 x 101 x 32 cm, 60 x 40 x 12.5 inches
collections:
Art collection HypoVereinsbank – Member of UniCredit. Munich, Artphilein Fundation. Vaduz, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection. West Palm Beach, Biblioteca Nacional. Madrid, Museum Art.Plus. Donaueschingen, Fundación Obra Social y Monte de Piedad Collection. Madrid, BMN-Cajamurcia Collection. Murcia, Centro Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Collection. Artium Museum. Vitoria, Genty Latimer Collection. London, Murcia Town Hall. Murcia, Testimonio Collection. La Caixa. Barcelona, Comunidad de Madrid, Comunidad de Murcia, Fundación César Manrique. Lanzarote, Fundación Ortega y Gasset. Madrid, Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo. Marbella, Universidad de Murcia, Sammlung Sulkowski. Düsseldorf
For me, the real and unreal, the concrete and the abstract are confused dualities. An abstraction, although abstract, is a real object and a realist painting is, seen from the appropriate distance, a beautiful mixture of material, brush-strokes and texture that makes it something akin to a plastic abstraction.
I have seen wonderful abstractions on a cement wall, on the rusty bodywork of a car in a scrap yard and on a dirty plastic bag at the end of a rainy day. I have seen beautiful shapes in marvellous abstract works, like someone who sees concrete shapes in a cloud or in Hermann Rorschach’s ink stains.
In some sense, I believe that all thought, including artistic thought, is based on what we take to be real. Everything we imagine, dream or invent has a reference in reality that is deformed to a greater or lesser extent depending on the whim of creative thought. Even those forms that appear to be more abstract and incomprehensible stem from a brain that is full of real references and memories, natural or artificial textures and shapes, of which even the artificial ones are inspired by their natural counterparts.
I think that the human creative-imaginative universe is built by absorbing real images, understood in its broadest sense. The way in which each artist transforms them into a work of art is what we call artistic language and this is, just like the human being, multiple and diverse.There in lies its grandeur.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 · Macro II. Choisi-One at a time/ Artphilein Foundation. Lugano. Switzerland
2015 · Macro.Zoom. Gagliardi e Domke Gallery. Turin. Italy
2014 · Rómulo Celdrán. Hasted Kraeutler Gallery. New York City. USA
2013 · Macro. Arthobler Gallery. Zurich. Switzerland
2010 · Zoom. Galería Raquel Ponce. Madrid. Spain
2009 · Pieces. Sala Novo Ciclo. ACERT. Tondela. Portugal
———· Realidade e Ilusao. Espacio Arthobler/Ler Devagar. LX Factory. Lisbon. Portugal
2008 · Pieces. Arthobler Gallery. Oporto. Portugal
2007 · Realidad y Magia. Sala Fundación Mapfre Guanarteme. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
———· Realidad y Magia. Sala Fundación Mapfre Guanarteme. La Laguna, Tenerife. Spain
2003 · La realidad no existe. Galería Manuel Ojeda. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain 2001 · Rómulo Celdrán. Galería Caracol. Valladolid. Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 · Really?. Wilding Cran Gallery. Los Angeles. USA
———· Art Around the Child. Fiat Chrysler Motor Village. London. UK
———· SCOPE BASEL. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Basel. Switzerland
———· Form und Fluidität. Stöckle Hauser Gallery-MATT. Stuttgart. Germany
———· FOR REAL. Stand Rutger Brandt Gallery. Amsterdam. The Netherlands
2016 · SCOPE BASEL. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Basel. Switzerland
———· KUNST 16 ZÜRICH. Stand Arthobler Gallery. Zürich. Switzerland
———· PAN AMSTERDAM . Stand Rutger Brandt Gallery. Amsterdam. The Netherlands
———· Selection. Arthobler Gallery. Zürich. Switzerland
2015 · SCOPE BASEL. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Basel. Switzerland
———· I’M Ten. IMT Gallery. London. UK
2014 · Schewerelos. Arthobler Gallery. Zurich. Switzerland
———· KUNST 14 ZURICH. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Zurich. Switzerland
2013 · On Painting. CAAM (Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain
———· La Realidad como Pretexto. Museo Universidad de Murcia. Murcia. Spain
———· Sketchy. Hasted Kraeutler Gallery. New York City. USA
2012 · JUSTMAD 3. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Madrid. Spain
———· THE SOLO PROJECT. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Basel. Switzerland
———· IV Biennial of Contemporary Art of the ONCE Foundation. Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Madrid. Spain
———· KUNST 12 ZURICH. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Zurich. Switzerland
2011 · ARCO´11. Stand Galería Raquel Ponce. Madrid. Spain
———· JUSTMAD 2. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Madrid. Spain
———· SWAB 2011. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Barcelona. Spain
———· THE SOLO PROJECT. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Basel. Switzerland
———· Art Barter Madrid.Sala C arte C (Centro de Arte Complutense). Madrid. Spain
———· Premio internazionale giovane scultura. II Edition. Francesco Messina Foundation. Casalbeltrame. Italy
———· MUNICH CONTEMPO´11. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Munich. Germany
———· BLOOOM´11. Arthobler Gallery Stand. Cologne. Germany