Álvaro Borobio
Bio
Alvaro Borobio (Madrid, 1984) founded the Art Battalion Madrid collective in 2016. He holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from CEU San Pablo Polytechnic University, Madrid (2003–2013). He complemented his education with an internal scholarship for the Summer Painting Courses at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London (2010–2011). In 2010, he received an Erasmus scholarship, studying restoration and classical painting as an auditor—and later as an assistant—at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts.
Statement
Alvaro Borobio’s work explores the dualism between the human sphere and that of the natural , which the artist manipulates when generating new realities that conceive nature and urban architecture as a single entity, although the artist is in charge of emphasizing their polarity by interweaving (sometimes literally overlapping by means of layers), representations and dissociated visual languages. He manifests a concern regarding the relationship between metropolitan society, the natural environment and the active role that man develops in the encounter between the two.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
