Nacho Zubelzu

Nacho Zubelzu - TRASHUMANCIAS_TRASHUMANCIAS 30

Technique: Cut paper on canvas

Artist Biography: Nacho Zubelzu's life is marked by his passion for art and nature, which stems from his fascination with the environment of the Campoo Valley in Cantabria, Spain. He draws on his own experiences in the mountains of Campoo to internalise the beauty of the natural elements and capture them plastically in paintings, photographs, sculptures, large-scale installations, performances and small illustrations. The artist, who has never drawn a dividing line between painting and sculpture, rather, they are complementary fields, uses in his works the repetition and variation that generate sequences in which an analysis of ideas, sensations and feelings is approached. In recent years his travels 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 takes each character on a nomadic journey to this other, much desired world. 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 that he carries out twice a year with nomadic shepherds from Extremadura and Andalusia, driving sheep and cows through the Spanish "cañadas", in search of the two springs.