Juan del Junco

Juan del Junco - A real European crow (Corvus cornix)

Artist Biography: Juan del Junco is a Spanish artist born in Jerez de la Frontera in 1972. "My work in the last 10 years has been decidedly photographic, although paradoxically I don't consider myself a photographer, I think I place myself better in the category of artist who uses photography. In fact, although there is a certain refinement in the forms, I consider it more as the attainment of ideas rather than the pursuit of a physical and formal end. I grew up lucky enough to have access to "insider information", my father was a scientist and all those years entering his laboratory made me feel like I was a scientist. It endowed a knowledge and a tendency close to the praxis of science. This fact, without a doubt, has meant that my approach to conceptualizing, producing and exhibiting is close to the paradigms of representation scientific, but with the subversive idea of the free artist. If science is rigid and strict, my proposals, although close to it, have all the freedom and artifice of the artist. Thus, in all my work you can see several constants: the approach to the natural world, the symbolism of the staging, the constant autobiographical and, above all, classificatory eagerness: a kind of obsession close to the taxonomy that governs my artistic world. In the latest works, a new formulation can be discerned, the sum of the drift in the landscape – a terrain close to the conceptual art of the 70s together with the inclusion of personal experiences, the result of which can be understood in the postulates of Romanticism."