Ojos del Barroco Art Space presents:

Esta Ciudad Santa, tierra de los Templarios volverá a prepararse y abrirá sus puertas para acoger la exposición 'TEMPLARIOS', que dirige Juan Antonio Ramírez del Espacio de Arte Ojos del Barroco, con algunos de los artistas más vanguardistas del momento. , como: el Mar Aragón de Motril, los granadinos Jesús Conde Ayala y Rafael Heredia, así como una granadina afincada en Madrid, Covadonga Sarragúa Leyva y otra afincada en Málaga, Zinnia Clavo, también con Plácido Romero de Málaga y Álvaro Peña de Murcia.Los artistas catalanes Laura Iniesta, Jordi Díaz Alamá, Dominica Sánchez, Eduardo Pérez-Cabrero, Mila Lozano, Guadalupe Masa y Santi Querac, la artista alemana afincada en Barcelona Ana Schmidt y Luca Ravassio, italiano, también estarán presentes en la exposición en la Iglesia de Antigua de la Compañía de Jesús en Caravaca de la Cruz.La exposición también contará con obras de artistas de renombre internacional, referentes de la pintura, como Picasso, Miró, Palazuelo, Canogar, Tapies, Antoni Clavé, Plensa, Saura, Barceló, Feito, Ceesepe y un largometraje, etc.Director: Juan Antonio Ramirez

Mar Aragón was born in Motril (Granada) 1971. His City's Gold Medal has shown his large-format watercolors at numerous national Art Sevilla Art Fairs, Art Marbella in its first three editions, and international Art Revolution Taipei ASIA with Art-Bcl, Art Tentation in MÓNACO, Art Hong Kong, etc ... Also Biennials in Monreale or San Leucio ITALY and different Galleries National and International Exhibition Rooms SEVILLA, MARBELLA, MADRID, BARCELONA, MURCIA, MÁLAGA, GRANADA, PARIS, NAPLES, BELGIUM, FLORIDA, FLORENCE , LUXEMBOURG, etc ... He has exhibited at the Spanish Embassy in SWITZERLAND at the Fundación Tres Culturas de SEVILLA with Vesaniart Art Gallery and at the Artistic Center of Granada. One of his works "El Cielo sueña Madrid" presides over the OFFICE OF THE MAYOR OF MADRID and another of his works "Desfío" presided over the now mythical MÓET & CHANDON room at the Hotel Marbellí Don Pepe MÁLAGA. Illustrator of numerous poetry books and novels by writers from her land and on several occasions a contributor to the prestigious Bulletin of the Centro Artístico Literario y Científico de GRANADA. She is also the author of different posters for the MÚSICA SUR International Festival. If we had to define Mar's trajectory, it would be Versatility.

The artist Zinnia Clavo was born in Madrid, Spain, on March 25, into a family of established artists. Daughter of the multidisciplinary artist Javier Clavo and the enameler Ángela Escribano, Zinnia has immersed herself in the art world since her earliest childhood. His father Javier Clavo does not want him to do Fine Arts.
In 1984 he completed his Bachelor of Art History at the University of Philosophy and Letters of Madrid, while continuing with his painting and holding his first exhibition at the Orfila Gallery in Madrid. She is awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the extension of Fine Arts studies in Krakow, Poland. He took advantage of his two-year stay in Poland to exhibit at the Studencka Gallery and at the Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych.
From that moment on, Zinnia Clavo devoted herself entirely to painting. His very personal style is still present today in all his work, showing the obligatory evolution of the incessant search and investigation of an artist, with individual exhibitions in galleries in London, Paris, Madrid, among other places in the world.

Artista español nacido en Archidona (Málaga) en 1953. Estudió Bellas Artes en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría en Sevilla.Actualmente es Doctor y Catedrático de Universidad en la Facultad de Bellas Artes "Alonso Cano" de Granada; Académico de Bellas Artes de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de Granada. Asesor y colaborador del Legado Andaluz.De sus pinceles surge una pintura luminosa, en la que lo clásico sirve de fondo para una visión más modernista y abstracta de la existencia. Estudiante del color y explorador de los universos del dibujo. Pase largas horas (por ejemplo) investigando tonos de verde. Su trabajo es refinado y elegante, en términos proporcionados, académicos y equilibrados; Sin embargo, se enfrenta al calor con el hielo, a la Grecia clásica con el suburbio turbulento en el que hemos tenido que vivir. El arte es, en sí mismo, un pretexto vital y un objeto último.

Laura Iniesta was born in Barcelona in 1955. She studied Art in this city and her first exhibitions were also in Barcelona.
She exhibits and lives in America for a long time during which she is struck by the exuberance of her tropics and this experience is positively reflected in her work. There he has the opportunity to meet and share experiences with greats of contemporary painting, such as Oswaldo Guayasamín among others. Her Mediterranean heart returns her to Barcelona, ​​where she definitely installs her studio and from there she works on her multiple exhibitions and projects at a national and international level.
His work, gestural, material, and direct with great visual impact and sense of balance, have enormous aesthetic strength, elegance and great ability to move the viewer, which does not leave indifferent.
MAIN EXHIBITIONS around the world, in cities like
Barcelona, ​​Paris, Brussels, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, León. Girona,
-, Karlsruhe, Staufen (Germany), Herningh, Skagen, Odense (Denmark), -
- Ryadh, (Saudi Arabia) /, -Dubai, UAE / - Madrid, / ART MADRID / -,
- Shanghai, China / CEIBS, –MURALES, Copenhagen, / ART COPENHAGEN 2016 - Paris,
- Montgomery, USA / Rosa Parks Museum - Atlanta, USA / Marthin Luther King, Jr. - -
- New York, USA, Detroit, USA / Museum of African American History (MAAH)
- Tokio, Japan / “Nourriture Culture Ingredients” / Instituto Miralda
- Miami, USA / Kostner Gallery - Barcelona, ​​Spain / “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Sala Gaudí
- Los Angeles, USA / Roberts Fine Art Gallery-,
- Medellín, Bogotá (Colombia), Quito, (Ecuador) / Embassy of the United States of America - ……

They say that I began to speak very early and there was a time when words were enough.
I remember as a child scattering those colored pencils that I then carefully organized in their metal box, on an ascending scale, from the lightest to the darkest. I ordered the whole world in that color box. He drew horses and faces. That's all. For some reason that was important to me. I think he longed to treasure beauty. But beauty is elusive and doesn't need you. Beauty is, all the more, when imperfect and not persecuted. When I stopped looking for her, I began to recognize her.
To be honest, I have never been excessively interested in the real. I think that without realizing it I installed myself a prudent footprint from the ground and caressed the intangible until I placed it in the center.
I venerate abstraction in all its manifestations and a lover of the word as I am, I was collecting some during the years I spent in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. I resorted to them some time later, after my studies in creative painting at the Massana School in Barcelona and my doctorate at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona.
Each word is a decision, as each look can be. And there they were: power, possibility, transit, invisible, uncertain, infinite, illusion, emptiness, frequency, breath, drive, synchrony, temple ... My drawbridges.
I am an artist because it was easier to be one than to renounce it and live with the non-manifest drive to create intensely. But along the way, I have had the opportunity to approach other areas of knowledge to discover how much in common they share with art.
How fascinating it would be to be able to put Hypatia, Leonardo da Vinci, Turner, Rodin, Gibran, Carmen Martín Gaite, José Antonio Marina, Georgia O'Keeffe, Chris Martin, Albert Gonzalo, Jorge Wagensberg and my grandfather Luís at the same table, armed with his violin and his poetry ...
I sculpt in oil on canvas and in the same way that I write: from top to bottom, from left to right; I paint "In Suspension", a poetics of the uncertain, seeking the breath of the void in a lace of endless pieces. In this transition from the potential to the manifest, a paradigm of infinite possibilities, and taking refuge in the perhaps, I blur my own convictions.
I like to think that in the limbo of what is without being yet, the invisible is revealed to us in whispers and that in that place what is is found and remains beyond reality. the fundamental frequency that unites everything.

Guadalupe Masa (1969) is an international plastic artist born in Barcelona, ​​Spain. In 1992, he graduated in Fine Arts, specializing in Painting from the University of Barcelona. Since then, he has combined teaching with artistic creation, also holding numerous solo and group exhibitions in his native country and around the world in countries such as France, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, the United States and Mexico, among others.
His painting can be defined within Abstraction and Magical Lyricism, color and matter being the main engine of his pictorial creation.
The light and the chromatic contrasts, so present in his painting, evoke even the most classic chiaroscuro of the Baroque, surely caused by that Mediterranean light, so inspiring and intense in its tones and colors.
Anything goes if it excites
When we ask Guadalupe Masa what painting means to her, she looks at us in silence and finally decides: "the matter of creating is an invitation to get excited."
And in each work, the discourse is established to generate a new state of mind, a sensation, a feeling that leads us to contemplate with new eyes the abstract beauty of color and, of course, the aesthetic and personal universe of the artist.

Since Álvaro Peña made his first "comics" when he was 8 years old, a time of constant maturation and experimentation has passed.
He studied Political Science and Sociology in Madrid to be able to be closer to everything that was moving in central Spain around the different artistic manifestations.
He published four humorous books in both regional and national publishers and thousands of publications in different newspapers.
In 2011 his first exhibition in Madrid and that under the title of "The cabaret of lost dreams" at the Cajamurcia Foundation Room makes him break with force and success in the artistic reality for critics and art connoisseurs, will be followed by exhibitions in Albacete, Zaragoza, Seville, Madrid, Alicante, Marbella, Shanghai, New York and receives the invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, to exhibit "Between the divine and the banal" in Vilnius.
Alvaro Peña, due to his career, was appointed academic of the Royal Academy of Alfonso X the Wise,
From his extensive curriculum, we highlight the invitation he received from the Cervantes Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, to visit the country as a Spanish revelation artist and make the talk-presentation "Álvaro Peña: Caprichos e Inquietudes de un painter"
Álvaro is a creator in the broadest sense of the word. His work spans multiple disciplines, such as painting, illustration, journalistic vignettes, narrative, etc.
Currently his work can be found in relevant institutions and private and public collections in Spain, Italy, and the most recent at Unesco Headquarters in China.

Santi Queralt understands the practice of painting as a visual diary,
The result of daily dedication and an ethical attitude. From its bases
elementals of color, matter and gestures, faithful to a tradition
avant-garde, the artist reformulates his discourse leading him towards a
contemporary organic abstraction, where cellular structures
branched, complex forms of biology, of composition
topological, describe a new autonomous reality of a world in
constant metamorphosis.

Born in Barcelona in 1945, Dominica Sánchez has a long history of exhibitions, especially in Paris and the United States, but she has exhibited relatively little in her country.
The drawings, generally on large format paper sometimes stained with pigments, are personal observations of a natural world, marked by a dialogue between the fragile and ephemeral and the musculature of the volume. The play made by slight curves, traced with pencil, and the dense and opaque geometries that mark his drawings create a balanced space that Maria Lluïsa Borràs described as an «interior landscape.
Starting with cardboard shapes that she cuts and folds until she is satisfied with the result, Sánchez then passes them on to fine iron plates that she manipulates with folds, curves and welds with surprising results that recall the work of Oteiza, Nicholson or González. Heirs to a long tradition of constructivist sculpture that claims a position against carving and modeling, Dominica Sánchez's sculptures are of an austere and elegant abstraction that, despite their intimate scale, evoke great monumentality.

Ana Schmidt is a figurative artist known for her realistic depictions of urban landscapes. The presence of graffiti, of abandoned urban spaces, even waste and decay, but also views from distant platforms, create in his work the sensation of an empty land, sometimes even banal.
Schmidt was born in Bochum, Germany. Throughout his youth, he learned painting techniques in various workshops; When it came time to commit to a career, he opted to graduate in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona.
Schmidt has received multiple awards, including in 2018 and 2015 the second and third prize from the Art Renewal Center Salon. In 2018 he also received the Columbia Threadneedle Prize for Figurative Art. His works, mostly large-format, have been exhibited internationally - among others, in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom - both in individual and collective exhibitions. He currently lives and works in Bilbao.

JOrdi Diaz Alamà, born in Granollers in 1986, has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. He is also trained in the great national and international schools of classical art such as the Florence Academy of Art (Florence), where he assimilates the techniques used by the great figures of 19th century painting. He consolidated his training during stays with contemporary realism masters such as the Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum, Guillermo Muñoz Vera and Antonio López. His personal work involves an impressive display of pictorial resources with a refined technique free of mannerisms that responds to the canon of contemporary classical figuration, investigating new concepts and plasticities. In 2017, he faced one of the most important challenges of his career with the realization of the work La Cruz del Jubileo, a monumental commission for the Iglesia de los Dolores de Vic. In his latest series # ClásicosDesollados, he unites his implacable realistic technique ...

The conceptual load of the work of Eduardo Pérez-Cabrero Batlló analyzes genetics as a fundamental motor of the human being's journey as opposed to the environment in which we move. The sinuous and organic forms of his pieces draw a parallel with the cells that convey the values ​​of humanity.
His talent is presented as a continuation of the artistic and plastic creativity of his ancestors. The industrialist Josep Batlló (1845-1934) entrusted his friend Antoni Gaudí with the construction of his family home, the renowned “Casa Batlló”, representative of Barcelona's modernism from the beginning of the s. XIX. Maestro Pérez-Cabrero (1847-1907) was composer and director of the Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

Rafael Heredia. Torre del Mar (Málaga), 1949. Creative and nonconformist from an early age and with an obsessive critical perception. Look for simple forms of expression where logic and discipline prevail, which are always above your creativity. He studies photography, screen printing, design and stamping techniques, practicing modeling and carving intensively and continuously. His work has remained for years linked to the most absolute intimacy. Rafael Heredia's works manage to communicate the most complex emotions through simplicity, creating dreamlike, ethereal worlds as well as close and human. Festival of ellipses and scrolls dotted with graceful edges and calm protuberances, finished off with a luster reminiscent of nature, of noble material with which Rafael builds these consummated "dreams" from primary elements, and developed with a mastery that endows them with the capacity of splashing the viewer with felt emotions.

Tras años apasionadamente dedicados al mundo de las antigüedades, visitando galerías y anticuarios por toda Europa, y especializándose en muebles y objetos decorativos del siglo XVIII y ART-DECO, y en los últimos años incorporándose al fascinante mundo del arte contemporáneo, Juan Antonio Ramírez crea el espacio de arte "OJOS DEL BARROCO" en Málaga, incorporándose este último año como subdirectora del proyecto, Mar Aragón quien, independientemente de su integración como artista en este mismo proyecto, colabora como gestora en las exposiciones y en la dirección de la redes y marketing de nuestro espacio de arte contemporáneo.Originando un cóctel ecléctico y elegante donde las antigüedades y el arte contemporáneo son los protagonistas, dando lugar a proyectos de decoración de alto nivel, siendo esta fusión muy apreciada por las nuevas generaciones de coleccionistas y amantes de este apasionante mundo del arte, donde lo principal es la búsqueda de belleza, dondequiera que exista.Os damos la bienvenida a este nuevo proyecto "Baroque Eyes", donde se combinan antigüedades de todas las épocas y estilos, así como obras contemporáneas caracterizadas por la calidad artística de sus autores y una variedad de estilos (abstracto, cinético, pop art, figurativo, OP-ART, arte conceptual); teniendo un papel destacado las obras originales de los artistas más importantes del panorama nacional e internacional.TE ESPERAMOS… Y, sobre todo, será un placer recibirte y crear esa pasión por este mundo del arte, gracias por ser y sentir Arte.EXPOSICIÓN PERMANENTE DE ANTIGÜEDADES Y ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO(CITA)