Nacho Zubelzu

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Artist Biography: Nacho Zubelzu's life is marked by his passion for art and nature, which stems from his fascination with the surroundings of the Campoo Valley in Cantabria, Spain. He draws on his own experiences in the mountains of Campurria to internalize the beauty of the natural elements and capture them in a plastic way in paintings, photographs, sculptures, large-format installations, performance and small illustrations. The artist, who has never drawn a dividing line between painting and sculpture, rather, are areas that he complements, uses in his works the repetition and variation generated by sequences in which an analysis of ideas, sensations and feelings is addressed. 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 collects the profile and the trace, the essence of nature and 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, restoring 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.