Javier Tudela

Presented by Icetex – Fellows Colombia

Initially he combines his medical studies –which he will drop out at the end of the fourth year- with those of psychology, theater, photography, and with his activity as a set designer. Already focused on artistic creation, he graduated in Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Bilbao -University of the Basque Country-. He completed his training at Christian Boltanski's multidisciplinary workshop –École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris-, and later, as resident artist at CREDAC –Centre de Recherche d'Echange et de Diffusion pour l'Art Contemporain- In this center he carried out in 1993 Essais d'ordre, his first major solo exhibition project.

Back in Spain, he studied a Master's degree at the Institute of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts in Madrid and later obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid, directed by Ángel Gabilondo Pujol, with the thesis Tensions between the creation and interpretation of the plastic arts. Chaos as a paradigm of contemporary sculpture.

Since 1995 he has been a professor in the Department of Sculpture at the University of Vigo where he works on creation and research processes, the approach to an epistemology of art and the staging of complex spatio-temporal stories; Always approached from the practice of installation, as a form of hybridization, and from the challenge of Art in the dynamic and complex context of public space.

He has had individual exhibitions and has participated in more than 70 collective exhibitions. His work can be seen in public spaces in Vitoria, San Sebastián, Teruel and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; But it has been in Caldas de Reis, in Galicia, where he has experimented with the last 5 works with the aim of delimiting an ephemeral laboratory of Public Art. He has curated exhibitions in Galicia and Portugal and has works in Spanish public collections such as ARTIUM in Vitoria, the Teruel Museum, the Grupo Endesa Collection in Madrid, or the Guipúzcoa Provincial Council Collection in San Sebastián; It is also present in other collections such as the FRAC Occitanie Montpellier in France.