Simeón Saiz Ruiz

Simeón Saiz Ruiz - Joaquin Mayrin speaks at a POUM rally

Artist Biography: Cuenca, Spain, 1956. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain. After spending 16 years working on a series about the civilian victims of the Balkan wars in the 90's, I felt the need to try to overcome the model of working in very closed series and to focus more on individual works made up of the most to try to overcome the model of working in very closed series and focus more on individual works constituted as densely as possible from a conceptual point of view. as conceptually dense as possible. However, the work on the Balkans has left in me the indelible desire to work around the image in the public sphere and to reject the comfort of a more private art. Although I believe in the ability of art to have an impact on the society that produces it, I do not believe in the ability of art to have an impact on the society that on the society that produces it, I have no illusions about the social effectiveness of my works, and on the contrary I understand them more as an individual as an individual process of investigation into the world around us in the hope of understanding it a little better. The ravages of populism, the eternal terror of the other, the disrepute of politics, the insecurity of the individual and his defenselessness in the face of abuse and exploitation, violence and the possible against positive images are a breeding ground that endlessly produces images. Selection of exhibitions: Photos (Das Unheimliche). F2 Gallery. Madrid, Spain (2022); BALLOTS NOT BULLETS, curated by Raul Zamudio and Juan Puentes. Zamudio and Juan Puentes. White Box Gallery. New York, USA (2022); Memoria del porvenir. MUSAC Collection, curated by Koré Escobar. MUSAC. León, Spain (2021); Soviet Soldiers. F2 Gallery. Madrid, Spain (2018); Zeiten del Ohnmacht, curated by Monika Anselment and Simeón Saiz Ruiz. Kunstraum pro arte. Hallein, Austria (2017); Genealogías feministas en el arte español: 1960 - 2010, curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga and Patricia Mayayo. MUSAC. León, Spain (2012); The specular image (Pulling the thread. ARTIUM Collection). Artium. Vitoria, Spain (2012); J'est un je. MUME, Museu Memorial de l'Exili. La Jounquera, Spain (2010). Selection of collections: ARTIUM. Vitoria, Spain; Bank of Spain Collection. Madrid, Spain; Spanish Museum of Abstract Art. Cuenca, Spain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain; Sorigué Foundation. Lleida, Spain; Pilar Citoler Collection. Madrid, Spain; La Caixa Collection. Barcelona, Spain.