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Nozal... y Josua Havu  presentation
- Effectively. In reality I am two and only one true God, a mystery similar
to that of the Saintly Trinity which gives the Roman Catholics such a run around and which
I have been bored to tears with since I was a child.
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- In general something similar occurs with every circumstance of the
judo-christian culture, that is to say once I discover the fallacy, I take on board the
predicament and fuck the predicant.
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- I found out too early that life is a shithole. When
television still delivered its images in black
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- and white I was already a perverted old man who dreamt
about the colours needed for the impossible redemption of man.
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- Now I am an extremely young painter who is out of his
mind and returns from places without having been anywhere.
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Curriculum nozal
| SInce 1969 he has had 22 individual
exhibitions and 31 collective. In Spain, England, U.S. and France. He has expressed
himself in different languages such as comics, theatrical scenery, short films, ceramic
murals, sculpture in cement and stained glass windows. In 1986 alongside the U.S artist
Sonia Sheridan he took part in an exhibition of computer aided art at the inauguration of
the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain). He has given numerous courses on design
and different conferences concerning the relationship between Art and Society (University
Clermont-Ferrand, France. Spanish Institute, New York, USA). He has had a part in
different modes of communication and since 1988 writes a weekly article for the newspaper
'El Norte de Castilla'. He is presently director of 'La Casa de Agua' a body concerned
with the promotion of art, whose main objective is to restore an old industrial building
situated on the Castille Canal on its way through Grijota (Palencia/España) in order to
convert it into residences and studios for artists from all over the world; a project
which endeavours to pull together all the support it can get so it can be thought as a
local or regional institute.
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CONTESTS:
1970: He obtained his first
prize;a special mention in the Spanish Youth Art Competition.
1972: II International de Pintura
"Calviá", Mallorca. España.
1975: Nacional de Pintura
Diputación de Segovia.
1977: Seleccionado Nacional de
Acuarela Valladolid. Tercer Certamen III InternationaI Palma de Mallorca. 10th
International Art festival of León. VI X Concurso Internacional de Pintura deLeón VIII
Nacional de Pintura "José de Ribera" en Játiva, Valencia. Seleccionado Bienal
Ciudad de Zamora.
1978: Seleccionado Certámen
Nacional de Acuarela de Valladolid. Premio Nacional de Dibujo "Antonio del
Rincón", Guadalajara. VIII Internacional de Pintura "Calviá", Palma de
Mallorca. XVII Internacional de Dibuix "Joan Miró", Barcelona. IV Nacional de
Pintura "Adaja", Avila.
1979: Colección Seleccionados
Adaja, sala de Arte "Avila", Madrid. Participa como artista invitado en la First
Arts Meeting, Londres. Obtiene el Premio Especial en acuarela y dibujo en el III Nacional
de Artes Plásticas del Mutualismo, Madrid.
1982: Invitado a la I Exposición
Pintores de Castilla y León organizado por el Consejo General de Castilla y León, en
Burgos.
1983: Forms part of the jury in
the Premio Nacional de Pintura "Jorge Manrique", alongside the art critic
Santiago Amón and the painter Germ´n Calvo. Thanks to this experience he discovers the
artificiality of and hope and promises himself that he will never again enter a
competition. A promise that he has managed to keep.
1983 / 1996: Painting contests?
NO, THANKYOU!
WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT NOZAL:
José Antonio Castro, Santiago Amón, Félix Carbajo, Manolo Conde, Antonio
Corral Castanedo, Victoriano Crémer, Ramón García Dominguez, Jesús Alonso Burgos,
Fernando Mon, Teresa Ortega Coca, Emilio Salcedo, Luis Garc Lacruz, Manolo Lacarta,
Marcelino García Velasco, Aránzazu Naranjo, Xavier Domingo, etc.
COMICS:
Since 1976 under the pseudonym of "JOSUA", he publishes:
"Cacharrín", Hebén", "La Creación de Josua", "Romancero
Castellano", "Nacho".
SCENERY:
1970: For the theatrical group Samuel
Becket: "El Supergerente", de Martínez Mediero.
1972: For the theatrical group
"Bernesga": "Prohibido todo lo que no es obligatorio", de Jorge Díaz.
1987: For the theatrical group T.P.T.P.:
Own production.
1988: Con el C.T.I.: "Misiles
de Oro".
ILLUSTRATIONS:
"El Rey de las Tempestades", de Parker Menegin. "Salmos de
la Palabra", de Emilio del Río. "Andalú", de Jorge Sendero. Revista
"Palencia/34". "Hoja del Lunes" de Valladolid. "Flash-Moda",
de Alicante.
AUDIO-VISUALS:
"Color-Color", 1975.
"Jorge Manrique, hoy" (16''), 1978. "Crepusculario", 1981.
"Proceso sobre partitura", 1986. "Proceso sobre paisaje", 1987.
GRAPHICS:
INDIVIDUAL: "Aire" (100 u.),
1974. "V Centanario de la muerte de Jorge Manrique" (50 u. x 21 láminas), 1979.
"Amaya, Disoses Griegos" (200 u. x 24 láminas), 1982. "Palencia
Ayuda" (150 u.), para Médicos del Mundo. 1994.
COLLECTIVE: "Homenaje a César
Vallejo" (100 u. x 12 láminas) Colectiva Pintores de Valladolid, 1978.
MURALS AND STAINED GLASS WINDOWS:
Stained glass windows in glass and
cement: Valladolid, Alicante, Pontevedra. Leaded glass windows: Palencia, Cevico de la
Torre. Concrete murals: Valladolid, Zaragoza. Ceramic murals: Valladolid (9 u.), Madrid.
Collection of concrete sculptures (13m high): Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia).
EXHIBITIONS:
22 individual exhibitions and 31 collective. Location: Spain, England, U.S.
and France.
INTERNET: El 1 de Diciembre de
1996, abre dominio en Internet y busca desde entonces nuevas fórmulas virtuales de
expresión y comunicación, creando el "Museo Imposible".
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An interview for the newspaper El
País
NOZAL, in the RED
Question: What's a painter doing typing HTML codes?
- Answer: Look I am a
painter, but a painter who has already been there and come back and for whom a social
life, etiquette, the family, status, the clergy, politics, career, the market, treachery,
success, coca-cola and saturday night... don't mean a thing. Anyway why not a little HTML?
- Q: What do you expect
from the Internet?
- A: I don't expect
anything specific. I don't know what it can do for me....nobody knows for sure and that
perhaps is its best attraction.
- Q: It is said that it
is the future.
- A: Lots of stupid
things have been said. The only way that Internet resembles the future is that no-one
knows what's going to happen.
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- Q: Isn't it a little unrewarding for a painter?
- A: In the same way it could be unrewarding for a writer,
a butcher, a farmer...
- Q: I say that because at first sight it appears
unthinkable 'oil with computer science'...
- A: I believe that they go together stupendously. In
reality oil goes well with anything, what is crucial is that the hand that guides it moves
with freedom, that's what is really important.
- Q: Apart from freedom what other thing is important to
you?
- A: That exact margin of freedom...that is, the blade of
the knife.
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A feature for the magazine Interviú
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- "In the beginning, in mythical times. in the sacred
time before men, a woman copulated with God," writes the author Jesús Alonso
Burgos referring to work by Nozal. From that divine copulation was born the
gods and men. Due to that, as all ancient cultures realised, that sacred and exemplary
history that narrates the mythical birth of civilisation, shouldn't be forgotten instead,
permanantly remembered, in art or life itself (such is the meaning of the beginning and
the indulging ritual)..."
- (Interviú, 15.NOV.93, article by Guillermo Fuertes,
pages. 82, 83, 84, 85)
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A biography for magazines such as Hello
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chorradas; una procedente del suplemento del El País titulada "Masculino
Singular", otra procedente del "Soir", algo así como "Detrás del
color") |
The truth, the
whole truth and nothing but truth?
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