Art and painting, food and cooking, music and love and life...
Music
Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Barry White, Howlin' Wolf, Isaac Hayes, Maceo Parker, Anthony & the Johnsons, Muse, Goran Bregovic, Peaches, Nick Cave, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Jay Jay Johanson, Herbie Hancock, Frank Zappa, Radiohead, Chet Baker, Art Blackey, Curtis Mayfield, Prince, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Schumann...
Movies
2046, Life of Brian, Lèolo, Annie Hall, Underground, Freaks, My Neighbour Totoro, The Meaning of Life, Blade Runner, Mulholland Drive, Otto e mezzo, La Dolce Vita, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, A Straight Story, Fargo, Ragging Bull, Taxi Driver, El lado oscuro del corazón, Cinema Paradiso, Big Fish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Broken Flowers, Lost in Translation, In the mood for love, Le mari de la coiffeuse, Scarface, Amelie, Donnie Darko, Brazil...
and all Monty Python, Emir Kusturica, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Luis Buñuel, Jess Franco, Hayao Miyazagui, Kin Ki Duk, Wong Kar Wai, Charlie Kauffman, Brian de Palma, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Terry Gillian, Chicho Ibañez Serrador, John Cassavetes, Takeshi Kitano, David Cronenberg...
Cinema Paradiso
"Slaughterhouse-Five" Kurt Vonnegut, "Sexus" Henry Miller, "Chambres" Louis Aragon, "The Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad, "Ulisses" James Joyce, "Resurreción" Lev Tolstoi, "Being There" Jerzy Kosinki, "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov, "Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto" Mario Vargas LLosa, "Las ciudades invisibles" Italo Calvino, "Tender is the nigth" F. S. Fitzgerald, "L'erotisme" Georges Bataille, "Persepolis" Marjane Satrapi... and Jorge Luis Borges, Oliverio Girondo, Robert Musil, José Ángel Valente, Konstantinos Kavafis, Anna Rossetti, Joan Brossa, Pere Gimferrer, Cèline, Yukio Mishima, Boris Vian, Oscar Wilde, Tolstoi, Marcel Proust, Lewis Caroll, Milan Kundera, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Leopoldo María Panero, Gabriel García Marquéz, Hugo Pratt, Milo Manara, Moebius, Philip K. Dick, Paul Auster, Julio Cortázar, Albert Camus, Cesare Pavese, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Bukowski...
el lado oscuro del corazon - espantapajaros
About me: I am an artist born in La Carolina (Andalusia, Spain). I paint large size oil canvases and ballpen drawings where I reproduce images I take with my camera, youthful and spontaneous domestic photographs of fleeting moments of nighttime fun. I have a degree in Arts (BA), two postdegree masters (MA) and I am finishing my doctorate (PhD). I also was a teacher of the University of Granada during 4 years.
In 2005 I participated, together with important artists such as Damien Hirst, Neo Rauch or Maurizio Cattelan, at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art "Prague Biennale 2" (Prague, Czech Republic) arranged by the Flash Art Magazine and curated by Giancarlo Politi. I was choosen to represent my country and was the only one Spaniard artist invited to that event. In 2006 I participated in "The Sock Strategy" exhibition at the 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville curated by Okwui Enwezor. I also have won the very prestigious ABC Prize of Art in 2004 and the First National Honours Degree Prize of Universitary Studies of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Spain in 2000. I have exhibited at some of the most important galleries in Spain including the Luis Adelantado Gallery (Valencia-Miami), Metta Gallery (Madrid), Ferrán Cano Gallery (Barcelona) Sandunga Gallery (Granada). I also have collaborated with El Museo Gallery (Bogotá) and since 2002 I am represented by the Fernando Pradilla Gallery (Madrid-Bogotá) and exhibiting at the international art fairs of Chicago, Miami, Palm Beach, México, Bogotá, Caracas and Madrid. My work can be found in important collections and museums like the ABC Collection of Art or the ARTIUM (Basque Museum of Contemporary Art) where I have participated in the collective exhibition "Catharsis", with such important artists as Miquel Barceló, Antoni Tapies, Jorge Oteiza, Jaume Plensa, Antoni Muntadas and Antonio Saura. I have also written and participaed in many books, like "Arte Seriado. Exploración y Análisis" and "El Arte como Dicha"; the next of them, "A y otros poemas de relleno" and "The Summer Haikus" are already on bookshops. This year, I have been awarded with the very prestigious award of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (Real Academia de España en Roma), where I will reside during 2007 and 2008.
If you are interested in my work, you can contact me at: juanfra10@hotmail.com
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Hey thank you for adding me to your friendslist ^_^ Drawing to the common aspirations. I hope we would like to become a real painting Friends. MERRY XMAS!
muchas gracias por admitirme juanfra, espero tener la posivilidad de hacerte unas preguntas para documentar un trabajo que estoy haciendo sobre tus obras, seria un honor contar con el principal protagonista de tu trabajo. Un abrazo y feliz Navidad
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