RAÚL ARTILES

Spain, 1985

MARTÍNEZ & AVEZUELA

Lives and works between Gran Canaria and Munich. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of La Laguna, and completed his Art studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunste in Braunschweig (Germany). Generally, he works in large formats, presenting charcoal paper installations with which he intends to dismantle the academic and nineteenth-century vision that assigned drawing the role of a minor work, dependent on other disciplines. His imaginary landscapes, constitute fugitive visions, dominated by catastrophic approaches or apocalyptic visions – not without irony – suggesting a metaphor for the current economic and political situation. Among his solo exhibitions, we highlight I Was Here at the Contemporary Art Hall in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2019), Black Hole, at the CAAM in Las Palmas de Gran Canarias (2015) and Souvenir. Remains of the Shipwreck, in the former convent of Santo Domingo de La Laguna, Tenerife (2012).