Andrés Rueda

André’s art is like plunging oneself into the palette, a deep dive into the paint. In his impressionist style, that impression starts with each splash, with each tidbit of paint and with each detail, every element congregates to give us a landscape filled with energy. His brushstrokes seem rushed, but a more attentive look can perceive that they are meticulously calculated, only conveying the quintessential and reflecting the purity and “simplicity” of nature, in a unique and contagious atmosphere.

André, through the paint’s plasticity, reveal us landscapes filled with colour and emotion. The elusive contours make the painting’s main structure shift between the figurative and the abstract colour patterns. This combination made of layers, impastos and pigments, concatenated under an “instantaneous brushstroke”, is able to capture a moment that has external and internal traits. His paint seems to be as alive as nature itself, thus extending his presence and movement to the point where it goes beyond the painting’s boundaries and drips into impastos that have the everlasting energy of springtime.

Even though the paint is part of the chemistry realm, his mixture is more optical than technical, there’s something electric in his colours and nature; both erupt with saturations and extreme contrasts which pierce our mind through our eyes, while developing themselves among chemical reactions, perceptions, impressions and feelings.

André, despite so much colour, saturation and contrast, is able to reproduce a harmony that reflects a natural dance. The reaction begins in André’s head, and after transferring itself to his palette and canvas, it ends up activating a reaction in our brains.

By Pedro Boaventura • Excerpt from Masters of Painting - Volume 1

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Andrés Rueda was born in Piedrahita (Ávila) in 1956. While living in Catalonia, he studied in the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Sabadell (Barcelona). He later perfected his technique and craftsmanship in various ateliers of prestigious master painters until, with the knowledge and experience he obtained, he decided to follow his own path and discovered his enduring passion for landscape painting.

Andrés Rueda has now fully matured as a painter and has established his personal criteria. As his very personal aesthetic he has chosen a style of painting that, although fully contemporary, is also an echo of tendencies that triumphed in past centuries: Pre- Rafaelism, Symbolism, Impressionism and Neo- Impressionism.

This close relationship and dialogue that he maintains with his best friend, the landscape, must both surprise and be admired. When viewing this deep and mutual understanding, it becomes obvious that

landscapes have offered to him their most intimate secrets, confessing their deepest nuances and hitherto unrecognized perceptions. They have opened limitless new perspectives and horizons to him where commercial repetitions and dangerous affectations have no place.

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1975 Chapel Barco de Avila

1977-1989 Participation in the contest of young painting Sala Pares. Barcelona. Russinyol

1983 Solo Exhibition Hall. Sant Cugat. Collective

1984-1986 Spain in different rooms. Exhibition in Cau D'Art Gallery - Sabadell

1986 Solo Exhibition Gallery Bona Nova. Barcelona - Sokoa

1988 Solo Exhibition Gallery - Madrid

1989 Solo Exhibition Gallery Benedito. Malaga. Individual Exhibition Gallery Bernesga. Leon. Braulio

1990 Solo Exhibition Hall. Castellón.

1991 Solo Exhibition Galerie Main dOr. Paris Solo Exhibition Galerie Gorg. Germany. Individual exhibition dArt ODA room. Terrassa. Atelier

1992 Solo Exhibition Hall. Barcelona. Individual exhibition Galerie Anm Gorres Platz. Germany

1993 Solo Exhibition Hall Clara. Olot. Girona Solo Exhibition Hall Rovira. Sabadell Solo Exhibition Hall Lloveras, Terrassa. Pedreguet

1994 Solo Exhibition-Art Gallery. Amer (Girona) man show. Olpe (Germany) Solo Exhibition Junta Castilla-Leon. Avila Atelier Exhibition Hall. Barcelona.

1995 Solo Exhibition Gallery Zuccaro. Madrid Exhibition indivdual Nova Gallery, Malaga. Individual Exhibition Gallery Conxa Lopez. Torredembarra (Tarragona)

1996 Solo Exhibition House of Culture. Xativa (Valencia) Solo Exhibition Junta Castilla-Leon. Avila Solo Exhibition Hall Atelier. Barcelona.

1997 Solo Exhibition Avila Savings Box. Arévalo 1998 Solo Exhibition Gallery Braulio. Castellón Solo Exhibition Gallery Echevarría San Sebastian

2000 Exhibition dArt ondivudal Fons. Olot (Girona)

2001-2002 Solo Exhibition Gallery Art Box. Barcelona Solo Exhibition Gallery Art Box. Madrid. Exhibition in the Gallery of English Court (Madrid and Barcelona). Individual Exhibition Hall Braulio. Castellón

2003 Solo Exhibition House of Sexmos. Arevalo. Works in collections : Banco Sabadell, Logic Control, Cirsa, City of Arevalo, private collections Other Works in : Spain, Germany, Argentina, Japan, France, Luxembourg, London

Actualmente sus obras se exponen en diferentes países:
Galerie KONTRASTE, Erwitte, Germany
X-Power Gallery Shanghai , China
Get Art museum Taipei Taiwan

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