Amparo
Alepuz

For me creation is a life experience, a constant search.

My artistic work goes back to the 80s when I started creating an intimate memorial composed of photographs taken with a Hasselblad camera that as well inspired me to draw and paint. In the early 90s I got my first personal computer, a Macintosh, since then the format and traditional techniques in my proposals coexist with new technologies.
From the belief that I belong to a world in which time is delocalised and paths are not linear, the file as a record, thesaurus and compilation is the paradigm of creation where my current projects arise

Going back, I dare to say, that the coherence of my work refers to the investigation of thinking and being feminine, basted through the concept of secrecy as a metaphor of the befall of women in history.
Secrets, in terms of the unseen, the stealth, the knowledge that someone possesses from the virtue or property of something, or a useful procedure in art or an occupation.
Series like METAPHOR, SUNRISE IS A SUNRISE GERTRUDE, SECRETS, come about in recent years to reach the last work in progress: SECRET SOCIETY MAKE-UP and PHENOTYPE a secret game.

The game goes on.

AMPARO ALEPUZ

Alicante, 1963. Lives and works between Altea and Madrid (Spain)

Visual artist. Content creator. Interdisciplinary projects. Illustration. Ideation.

Doctor and Bachelor of Fine Arts, studied at the San Carlos Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Since the year 2000 she is a researcher and a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Altea at the Miguel Hernández University. Spain is where she teaches the Bachelor and Master degree.

In the 90’s she begins her professional career combining her personal work with approach in graphic design and illustration and collaborating in ideation and curator of exhibitions.

Currently, her artistic research focuses on the attainment of multidisciplinary projects from which she engages photography, painting, analogue-digital illustration and video.

Her project Secrets, curated by Néstor Ramírez de Arellano Conde, will be exhibited at the María Eugenia Haya’s room of the Fototeca of Havana, Cuba, at the Photographic November 2018 event.

From June to September of 2018 her work is exhibited at the Contemporary Art Festival In The Margin organized by The Factory of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman, Jordan.

Since April 2018, the San Fernando Naval Museum in Cádiz has exhibited the imaginary portrait of Ana María de Soto, the first woman to enter the Spanish army in the XVIII century, under the guise of a man.

Occasionally Illustrates, since 2016, the literary articles of the writer Gerardo Muñoz that are published in the Diario Información of Alicante.

She collaborates with the perfumer Raquel Navarro in the design ideation of the latest olfactory creations: Nose and Jean Cocó Parfum.

She is a member of Mise en Plis, a research platform from which she shares projects with Rocío Villalonga and Lourdes Santamaría, her artist’s book Oui Dada c’est moi, the story of an egg participated in the International Announcement of Books of Artist. Emilio Sdun Memorial, organized by Red Book of Artist and the Drawing Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and in the SINDOKMA 2018 Book Festival held in Valencia by the Magazine of Visual Arts and Contemporary Culture MAKMA.

Curators: Antonio Damian and Antonio Alcaraz.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

– Festival In the margin. Factory of Contemporary Art. National Gallery of Fine Arts. Amman Jordan. From June 27 to September 1 of 2018.
– Imaginary portrait of Ana M. De Soto. Work at the San Fernando Naval Museum, Cádiz. Permanent exhibition. Since April 2018.
– Exhibition Typography and Dada books, in SINDOKMA, book festival. Sala Oberta. La Nau Cultural Center. University of Valencia.
From the 27 to the 29 of November 2017. http://sindokma.es/
– Exhibition of the International Announcement of Books of Artist. Emilio Sdun Memorial. Espai NAU. Llotja Barcelona. From April 20 to May 19 of 2017.
– Emilio Sdun Memorial. Sala de las vitrinas at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. From February 3 to March 30 of 2017.
– Mediterrani: Mar de Murs. Centre Cultural La Nau Valencia. From the 6 to the 30 of October of 2016. Among the actions carried out in the Mostra Viva del Mediterrani 2016: culture and conflicts in the Mediterrani. Curator: Amparo Carbonell.
– Opening exhibition of the International Call for Books by Memorial Artist Emilio Sdun. Provincial Museum of Jaén. From October 11 of 2016 to January 30 of 2017.
– Menos es menos, más es menos, menos es más, más es más. Sala Pedro Celso, Frax Foundation. Alfaz del Pi Alicante May of 2016.

– Life is inattentive. Curators: Antonio Damian, Jim Lorena. Touring exhibition 2012-2010:

– Art School of Córdoba exhibition “Mateo Inurria”.
From April 16 to May 8 of 2010.
– Art School of Granada.
From May 13 to June 7 of 2010.
– Popular University of Albacete.
From October 18 to November of 2010.
– Palau Altea.
November of 2010.
– Art School of Jaén.
José Nogué Room from the 8 to the 24 of December of 2010.
– The library at the University of Hamburg.
From February 8 to March 18 of 2011.
– Provincial Museum of Jaén.
From May 24 to June 20 of 2011.
– Weimar Public Library (Germany).
From November 12 to December 3. 2012.

ARTWORK IN MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS

The Factory. National Gallery. Amman Jordan.
San Fernando Naval Museum, Cádiz.
Red Book of Artist. Emilio Sdun Memorial.
Calderón Theatre. Alcoy Alicante.
Miguel Hernández University.
Sabadell-Cam Foundation.
City Council of Altea.
Seiquer Gallery. Madrid.
El Sol Gallery. Altea.
Center of Hispanic Culture of Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic.

GRAPHIC IDEATION, EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

– Raquel Navarro. Perfumer
Graphic image ideation for Nose and Jean Cocó Parfum. 2018.
– Periodically illustrates, since 2016 the literary articles of the writer Gerardo Muñoz that are published in the Diario Información of Alicante in the Moments of Alicante section.
– Graphic identification of the DVD and vinyl. The Bar of the Alley. Samara Times. Factoria Rifi Publish. Sgae Foundation. Rock CD. From November of 2017 until June of 2018.
– Illustrations for the book Philosophical Notes by Alicia Vallina. Prologue: Ignacio Gómez de Liaño. Edits: Tejerina Foundation, Astrological Studies Foundation. November of 2017.

– Ecoute moi. Secrets Series. S4. Digital illustration acquired by the Miguel Hernández University. 100 copies. December of 2014.
– Graphic ideation and illustrations for the book Poemari.
Publishes La cala dels somnis and Associació d’Estudis Marina Baixa, 2013.
– Design and illustrations for the book: Travel heart, edited by Factoría Rifi, 2013. Multimedia project financed by crowd funding.
– New Collection. Digital illustrations for the designer Sara Navarro. Presentation of the Sarah World Collection 2013-14.
– Illustrations for Catadeperfumes. 2013.

BOOK PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH MAGAZINES

– Villalonga Rocío, Alepuz Amparo. Oro parece plata no es. La operación cognitiva de tres semánticas visuales en la era digital. Chapter 1- IMAGE AND CULTURE in the book: The omnipresence of the image. Interdisciplinary studies of visual culture. Edit: Ana Beriain Bañeres. GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ACADEMICS. 2017

– Lourdes Santamaría Blasco, Amparo Alepuz Rostoll, Rocío Villalonga Campos OUI … DADA C’EST MOI. Story of an egg, by MISE in PLIS. Book / object in memory of Emilio Sdun. TERCIO CRECIENTE (THIRD GROWING): Journal Studies in Society, Arts and Cultural Management. Number 13 Extraordinary Monograph I. Production Strategies, diffusion and commercialization in the contemporary art edition. July 2017.

CURATOR OF EXHIBITIONS

– Collective Exhibition. Summer time II. You Chic. Art space Altea. 2014
– Cabinet of Graphic Work in Private Collections. Palau Altea, Center D’Arts; Exhibition Hall at the House of Culture Campello. 2007
– Cabinet of drawings and other art collections. Centre de Art de l’Estació. Exhibition room. Denia; Cultural Center of Alcoy; Palau Altea. Centre d’Art. 2006
– The Incorporated Falaz. Eduardo Pojuan, Douglas Argúelles, Duvier del Dago. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation of the Community of Valencia, Altea. Curatorship shared with Jorge Fernández Torres. 2006
– Constantin Pacea. Drawings and paintings. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation of the Community of Valencia. Altea. 2006
– 3 Cuban Artists. The built place. Ramón Serrano; Humberto Planas; Ruslan Torres. Eberhard Schlotter Foundation of the Community of Valencia, Altea. Curatorship shared with Jorge Fernández Torres. 2005.