Alejandro Guijarro (born 1979) is a Spanish contemporary artist who currently works between London and Madrid.

Early life

Guijarro was born in Madrid, where he began his artistic education at the Escuela de Arte N10, completing a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design in 2004. He then moved to London to attend the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public university, public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City, London, White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design uni ...

, where he graduated from the MFA Photography programme in 2010.

Major works

His first major series, ''Momentum'', received international critical acclaim, and can be found in the permanent collections of

Saatchi Gallery The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the ...

, London, the Frank Suss Collection, New York City/London, and the

Goetz Collection The Goetz Collection (Sammlung Goetz) is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany. It opened in 1992. The collection is owned and continually being enlarged by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz, who presents the collectio ...

, Germany. Over the course of three years, between 2012 and 2015, Guijarro travelled to various quantum mechanics institutions around the world – from Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom, to

CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Gene ...

in Switzerland, and

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

and

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

in the United States – photographing the blackboards as he found them, and reproducing them at 1:1 scale. ''Momentum'' has been exhibited at Tristan Hoare, London, in 2012,Cambell-Dollaghan, Kelse
"Photos of Physicists Blackboards Reveal the Ghosts of Theorems Past"
"Fast Co Design" Retrieved 8 February 2017 at the

Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

Headquarters, New York and at The Contemporary Collectors Club, New York in 2013, and at

Marlborough Gallery Marlborough Fine Art was founded in London in 1946 by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer. In 1963, a gallery was opened as Marlborough-Gerson in Manhattan, New York, at the Fuller Building on Madison Avenue and 57th Street, which later relocated in ...

for

PHotoEspaña PHotoEspaña, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts of Madrid, is a Spanish photography festival based in Madrid, founded in 1998. It is supported by private companies and public institutions, and its program presents work by ...

15 in Madrid in 2015. His second photographic series – ''LEAD'' – was shown in Spring 2017 at Tristan Hoare. For this, Guijarro visited the conservation departments at the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...

, the

Prado Museum The Museo del Prado ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It houses collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 20th century, based on ...

and

The National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current dire ...

and photographed the X-rays and infrared scans of many prominent

Old Master In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master")Old Masters De ...

paintings, including the

Mona Lisa The ''Mona Lisa'' is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, ...

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested o ...

, The Battle of San Romano by

Paolo Uccello Paolo Uccello ( , ; 1397 – 10 December 1475), born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian Renaissance painter and mathematician from Florence who was notable for his pioneering work on visual Perspective (graphical), perspective in art. In his book ''Liv ...

, the Annunciation by

Robert Campin Robert Campin (Valenciennes (France) c. 1375 - Tournai (Belgium) 26 April 1444) now usually identified with the Master of Flémalle (earlier the Master of the Merode Triptych, before the discovery of three other similar panels), was a master pai ...

, and Adam and Eve by

Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish painting, Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged comp ...

.http://tristanhoaregallery.co.uk/exhibitions/lead/Retrieved 9 February 2017

Publications

Zine by Guijarro

*''Momentum Series.'' Southport, UK:

Café Royal A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café (), is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino, among other hot beverages. Many coffeehouses in West Asia offer ''shisha'' (actually called ''nargile ...

, 2016. With a text by Francis Hodgson. Edition of 200 copies.

Publications with contributions by Guijarro

*''Picking Up, Bouncing Back.'' By Alexander Garcia Düttman, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Olivier Richon. Edited by Rut Blees Luxemburg. London,

, 2010. . *''New Order: British Art Today.'' By Phillipa Adams. London:

, 2014. . Exhibition Catalogue. *''Blackboard - Art from Teaching / Learning from Art.'' Artipelag katalog 7. By Frida Andersson and Jessica Höglund. Värmdö, Sweden: Artipelag Konsthall, 2013. . Exhibition Catalogue. *''Post-Photography: The Artist with the Camera.'' By Robert Shore. London: Elephant; Laurence King, 2014. .

Awards

*2004. Premio de Fotografia Ministero de Economia, Spain (third place). *2007. ITS SIX(International Talent Support), Italy (finalist). *2009. The Villiers David Travel Award, London (winner). *2009.

Bursary, London (winner). *2009. Man Photography Prize, London (finalist). *2010. E-Creative Award, London (finalist). *2011. Festival international de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, France (Shortlisted). *2013.

13. Descubrimientos, Spain (finalist). *2015.

Prix Pictet The Prix Pictet (Pictet prize) is an international award in photography. It was founded in 2008 by the Geneva-based Pictet Group with the mandate to use the power of photography to communicate messages about sustainability to a global audience. Its ...

, London/Switzerland (Nomination).

References

External links

*
Tristan Hoare Gallery: Alejandro Guijarro

Saatchi Gallery: Alejandro Guijarro

The Franks-Suss Collection: Alejandro Guijarro
{{DEFAULTSORT:Guijarro, Alejandro 1979 births Living people Spanish contemporary artists Alumni of the Royal College of Art 21st-century Spanish artists Date of birth missing (living people)