Nacho Zubelzu

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Biografía del Artista: Nacho Zubelzu's life is marked by his passion for art and nature, which stems from the fascination that the surroundings of the Campoo Valley in Cantabria, Spain, produce in him. He draws on his own experiences in the Campoo mountains to internalise the beauty of natural elements and express them in a plastic way in paintings, photographs, sculptures, large-format installations, performances and small illustrations. The artist, who has never drawn a dividing line between painting and sculpture, rather, they are areas that he complements, uses in his works repetition and variation that generate sequences in which he addresses an analysis of ideas, sensations and feelings. In recent years, his trips to African countries (Kenya and Gambia) and Asian countries (China and Mongolia), or to places of overflowing nature, such as the Atacama Desert in Chile, have inspired his most recent work, in which he captures the profile and the trace, the essence of nature and of human beings. With his painting, he transports each character on a nomadic journey, to this other world so desired. And with his “orograms” he heals the fractures of what has been forgotten, of what the passage of time has deteriorated, giving back to the object or environment that lost dignity. Another source of inspiration is the transhumance he carries out twice a year with nomadic shepherds from Extremadura and Andalusia, driving sheep and cows through the Spanish ravines, in search of the two springs.