Jurgens Portillo
Bio
Jurgens Portillo [maracaibo, 1990] Bachelor of Fine Arts, mention Drawing, from the University of Zulia. In 2012 he obtained his first recognition in the Visual Arts Student Contest, organized by the Experimental Faculty of Art of the University of Zulia. In 2013 he received the 1st Prize, at the XLI Exchange Painting Exhibition, Sala Gabriel Bracho Tranvía de Maracaibo. Since then he has presented his work collectively in various spaces: Los Iguanos honor Vitrubio, Lía Bermúdez Art Center (2013); 1st (2015) and 2nd Hall of Young Artists (2016) at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia; Let's be realistic, Lía Bermúdez Art Center (2016); Immortal Nature, CevazGallery (2017); Lunar, Rafael Urdaneta University of Maracaibo (2017); This is not fiction, it is love of color, Aula Magna de la URU (2017). ABRA has presented his individual work (The simple and everyday, 2020), collectively (Strange Times, 2021) and at ARTBO 2021.
Statement
For the artist Jurgens Portillo, immediate reality is crossed by his pictorial interests and by his need to adapt the spaces he inhabits to the canvas. Portillo is interested in texture, color, light and pictorial form. The drawing is contained in his painting, he considers that both techniques are a sensitive medium that allows him to generate other readings of everyday scenes and objects.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
