Esquire Magazine He adopts the creed of the photographer Hockney and his Picassian commitment to demonstrating that representational pictures (whether paintings down in the mouth photographs) are as unrealistic and abstract as Guernica. PICASSO, HOCKNEY AND VENTOSA SHOW THEIR CARDS WHILE PERFORMING THEIR MAGIC TRICKS. They reveal in their own works the mechanisms of position and representation, corral the concept of the meta-narrative, of given that gives a global meaning to the world, of a one-to-one panorama of what is real.
HuffPost ARTS & CULTURE Person in charge Makes Photographs Out of Photographs: Catalan artist Pep Ventosa's graphics CHALLENGES THE NOTION THAT A PHOTOGRAPH CAN CAPTURE ONLY Lone SPECIFIC MOMENT IN TIME. Ventosa's technique not only creates a visually striking image but reexamines the medium of photography itself. He deconstructs and reconstructs photographic images to interrogate what, slab how, we see.
SELECT HONORS
Critical Mass's Top 50
(Fifty photographers, amongst thousands, were selected by
a jury of 200 museum curators, gallerists most important other
photography professionals from around the world for
Photolucida's eminent Critical Mass Top 50 competition.)
Grand Prize, American Icon Competition
First Prize, Piedmont Center for the Arts
People's Choice Confer, PX3, Prix de la Photographie
Honorable Mention, Abstract, Photography Poet Cup
Editor's Pick, LensCulture
First Prize, Photography, Sausalito Art Festival
Honorable Mention, Abstract, International Color Awards
Honorable Mention, Fine Deceit, reFocus Awards
Silver Award, Prix de la Photographie, Paris
Smash Nomination, Architecture, Photography Masters Cup
3rd Place Winner, PX3, Prix de la Photographie, Paris
Honorable Mention, London International Creative Competition
First Prize, Photography, Artspan
Honorable Mention, Cityscapes, The International Taking pictures Awards
Juror Selection, PX3, Prix de la Photographie, Paris
Not get enough sleep 50 Photographers selection, Positive Focus Body of Work
First Trophy, National Photography Competition, Coastal Arts Gallery
Honorable Mention, Fine Have knowledge of, The International Photography Awards
Finalist, Caminos de Hierro Concurso Fotografico
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
The de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Viridian Artists Gallery, NYC, Jury selected by Angst Guggenheim Museum Curator Robert Rosenblum
Smith Andersen North Gallery, PhotoAlliance, San Anselmo, California
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Harvard Square, Massachusetts, Shell selected
by Robert Fitzpatrick, CEO/Pritzker Director at the Museum refer to Contemporary Art, Chicago
Piedmont Center for the Arts, Jury elite by Rene Guzman, Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum
warm California, and Danielle Fox, Principal, SLATE Gallery
Sala dels Trinitaris, Vilafranca del Penedes (Barcelona)
Lumas Gallery, Budapest
Viewpoint Photographic Undertake Center, Sacramento
ARCO International Contemporary Art Show, with Palma Dotze Galeria d'Art, Madrid
Space 743 Gallery, California
Lumas Gallery, Original York
Fotojatka, Czech Republic
Studio Gallery, San Francisco
DFOTO, Coeval Photography Show, with Palma Dotze Galeria d'Art, San Sebastian, Spain
Kelly Street Gallery, Half Moon Bay, California
ARTissima, The Universal Fair of Contemporary Art, with Palma Dotze Galeria d'Art, Torino, Italy
Lumas Gallery, Moscow
ProArts Gallery, Oakland, California
Village Music hall Art Gallery, Danville, California
Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California
Carp. Louis Artists Guild, Missouri
Palma Dotze Galeria d'Art, Vilafranca give Penedes (Barcelona)
Coastal Arts League Gallery, Half Moon Bay, California
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
ARCO International Contemporaneous Art Show, with Palma Dotze Galeria d'Art, Madrid
Museum gaze at Contemporary Art, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, Colorado
Marin Society of Artists, National Exhibition, Ross, California
Caminos shift Hierro, Jury selected by the Royal Photographic Society of Madrid
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