6 works of art from JUSTMAD that you can buy from home

1. Federico Granell (Cangas del Narcea, Asturias, Spain, 1974)

Federico Granell's paintings reveal the narrative and experiential nature of travel, as a distancing from routine and everyday life, as a discovery of new places and different ways of life, but also as a journey inward, towards finding oneself. In his works, a light filtered by memory, like a photograph faded by the passage of time, transports us to those places recorded in a diffuse way in his memory.

A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca in 1999, specialising in Design and Audiovisuals, and later trained in Milan and Rome, Federico Granell began his career more than a decade ago. A prominent artist on the national art scene, he has held numerous exhibitions in renowned Spanish, European and South American art galleries, has been awarded important prizes and his works are present in prestigious collections such as those of the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, that of the Regional Government of the Principality of Asturias or the DKV Collection.

2. Rafael Blanco Expósito - Nankayshan (Sabadell, Spain, 1980)

Rafael Blanco uses as a starting point for the creation of his works the observation of the nearby landscape and the changes produced by new technologies in agriculture, where rhythms reach levels of geometric order to minimize production costs and labor. To do so, he uses formal and rhythmic resources and shapes such as the square, circle, hexagon, curved and straight lines.

After completing his studies at the School of Arts and Trades in Granada, he continued his educational career in different faculties of Fine Arts: Altea, Salamanca, Mexico and Granada where he graduated. He carries out advertising work in the fashion, rural tourism and oil painting sectors. He worked as a documentary photographer for the Siglo Foundation for the III International Festival of the Arts of Castilla y León. He was awarded second prize in photography at the IX Plastic Arts Competition in Granada. He has participated in projects such as Paredes habla. Intervención urbana . Cuarenta años de pintura desde Mayo del 68 and D-Mencia 2008. He is one of the founders and coordinators of NemoArtFestival (Priego de Córdoba). His work has been exhibited at Espiral: University Cultural Forum (Mexico), Ikas-art (Bilbao), Loop (Barcelona), Chromatic: III Biennial of Young Painting (Orense), Video in the Classroom (Seville), In & Out Caja rural de Granada, Salamanca, Altea, Córdoba, Málaga, among other cities.

3. Pablo Little (Cordoba, Spain, 1989)

In his works, Pablo represents how a small adult or a big child looks at the world from the perspective of emotions. His drawings are dominated by black ink and he talks about love and things that hurt. In his work we find planets, hugs, tepees, naked bodies, tattoos, vegetation, animals… a whole universe that Little uses to deal with the themes that interest him: love and heartbreak, goodbyes and reunions, the earthly and the magical, the extraordinary…

Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Malaga, Cultural Manager and self-taught artist. Throughout his career, he has exhibited his work in solo shows, including “Amor, Magia, Infinito” at the Galería Roja (Seville 2016) or “El amor es sencillo” at El Imparcial (Madrid 2016), and in collective shows such as “GLITCH” at the CAS (Seville 2016). He has also been the creator and director of “Galería Central” (University of Malaga) from 2009 to 2012; since 2014 he has directed the DMENCIA Contemporary Art Show project, and has been part of the creative tandem Crótalo & Triángulo (2014-2016). His illustrations have appeared in national publications such as El Mundo, El Español, Harper's Bazar, Neo2, Notes, L'Officiel, AD España or Revista LaMuy, among others.

4. Teresa Pajares (Madrid, Spain, 1953)

She experiments by playing with textures, materials and volumes, finding in everyday materials the channel to configure her artistic argument. In this way, her elements, reinterpreted and elevated to the category of art, make us participants and aware of our environment.

Graduate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Associate Professor. Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra (University of Vigo). During her professional career she has held individual and collective exhibitions in national and international galleries, as well as at fairs (ARCO).

5. Cecilia de Val (Zaragoza, Spain, 1975)

It represents liquid images that refer to the origin and illustrate the present. Photographs that, like mountains, have gone from being solid, immutable, static, monumental, calcareous or dusty to being liquid, fluid, mobile, dynamic, fragmentary and transient. A reflection on the concept of non-photography or liquid photography in the digital age and on the relationship between the image and the textual, which underlines the strong feedback that exists between the structures of image production and the dominant forms of subjectivity in neoliberal culture.

She is a photographer who explores identity and the relationship of the individual with his or her environment. She has presented her work in exhibitions at festivals such as Photoespaña 2009 and 2012, at the Festival Encuentraos Da Imagem 2012 (Braga, Portugal), in the international traveling exhibition Undressing Eva: Creators of the 20th and 21st Centuries of the Instituto Cervantes (2012), at the Pamplona Biennial of Plastic Arts (2010), at the Rafael Botí Córdoba Biennial of Plastic Arts (2010), in the program Jugada a tres banda Madrid (2012), in the international program ArtBarber 2011, she has exhibited her work in museums such as the DA2 in Salamanca (2015), the Museum of Teruel, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santander, the Casa de la Mujer in Zaragoza, Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante (2013). As well as in national and international contemporary art fairs such as Unseen Amsterdam 2016, Miami Basel 2014, Pulse Miami 2008, among others.

6. Cesc Abad (Barcelona, ​​Spain, 1973)

His work allows us to observe the landscape in a different way, both figuratively and conceptually. He is interested in provoking surprise, experimentation and the relationship between man and nature. His imagery is easily recognizable and expresses dystopia as a tool for social criticism.

His work belongs to the Collection Fundación MER, Madrid; Stefan Simchowintz, Los Angeles; Fundació Vila Casas, Barcelona; Banca Mora, Andorra; Centro de Arte Mutuo, Barcelona; Encinar Collection, Madrid; Albert Madaula Collection, Barcelona; Antoni Morell Collection, Andorra; Carles Barrera Collection, Viella; Josep Soler Collection, Barcelona; Cernuda Collection, Barcelona, ​​among others.