Asunción Bau

About

According to my friends, it seems I was born with a paintbrush in hand. My academic training in Philosophy did not prevent me to continue painting. But the difficulties of living under a dictatorship prevented me from developing my full potential. As a tireless traveler, knowledgeable in different artists and styles, I am building my own personality. The last years of the twentieth century and especially the arrival of the twenty-first century give me total freedom. To me art is the action of creating. Immersed in the search for transparency, my painting is acquiring an increasingly more poetic, more lyrical character, seeking an increasing contact with the viewer. So the vision of my painting becomes an ongoing process that pushes the viewer to create, in a word, to interact. ARS GRATIA ARTIS.

Location: MADRID, Madrid, Spain
Website: http://www.asuncion-bau.es

Work

ARTS FESTIVALS AND CONTESTS (Selected / awards)

2011 AEPE XXX Contest (Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors), small format
2011 XVIII Painting Contest José Prat, Las Rozas, Madrid
2011 Arts Contest, Ciudad de Coín, Málaga
2011 UNED, Plasencia (Cáceres)
2010 VI Contest "Women in Equality", CC Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid
2010 UNED Plasencia (Cáceres), 2 nd PAINTING PRIZE
2009 Contest "With women's eyes", Mora (Toledo), 2 nd PAINTING PRIZE
2009 Fine Arts Circle of Madrid, 2 nd PAINTING PRIZE
2009 UNED, Cuenca, Spain
2008 UNED Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain
2008 Antonio Machado Cultural Center, Madrid
2008 Painting Contest Trillo, Guadalajara, Spain
2007 Painting Contest Quinta de los Molinos, Madrid

LAST EXHIBITIONS

2012 (February-March) “Veterans room”, Iberia, Madrid
2012 (January) Armies Cultural Center, Madrid
2011 (November) AEPE, Nicolás Salmerón Cultural Center , Madrid
2011 (September) Maruja Mallo Room, Pérez de la Riva Cultural Center, Las Rozas (Madrid)
2011 (August) Folkets Hus of Hakkas, Gällivare, Sweden
2011 (August) Convent of Santa María, Coín (Málaga)
2011 (August) CIEC (International Contemporary Print Center), Betanzos (A Coruña)
2011 (July) Château de Freÿr, Ardennes, Belgium
2011 (May) Casino of Madrid
2011 (May) El Silo (El Casar, Guadalajara, Spain), Engraving
2011 (April) Happy Peace Gallery (Madrid)
2010 - 2011 (December-January) Gloria Fuertes Gallery (Madrid), INDIVIDUAL
2010 (December) UNED Plasencia (Cáceres, Spain)
2010 (November) Las Claras (Plasencia, Cáceres), " Ladies of Spades "
2010 (October) El Silo (El Casar, Guadalajara), INDIVIDUAL
2010 (July) El Silo (El Casar, Guadalajara), INDIVIDUAL
2010 (May-June) Ronda Space (Madrid), Collective, " Ladies of Spades "
2010 (February) Pozuelo Cultural Center, Madrid
2010 (February) UNED Plasencia (Cáceres, Spain)
2010 (January) Sirio Cultural Center, Madrid, ENGRAVING
2009 (December) Solidarity Foundation Our Seniors
2009 (October) Ansorena Gallery, Madrid
2009 Solidarity with India, City of Hope and Joy Foundation
2009 (September) Women's Center, Mora (Toledo)
2009 (June), Fine Arts Circle of Madrid
2009 (May) Antonio Machado Cultural Center, Madrid
2009 (February) UNED Plasencia (Cáceres, Spain)
2008 Antonio Machado Cultural Center, Madrid
2007 Latin American Art Fair, Leganés, Madrid
2004 PUCP Lima, Peru

WORK IN:

Private collections in Spain, Peru, Chile, Sweden, Lebanon, and
Councils, Cultural Centers, Casinos, Universities in Spain

BOOK ILLUSTRATION:

Poems book illustration: “Pleasant journeys”, Arantza Salaberría
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Education

1961 School of Fine Arts in Tenerife (Spain)
1968 Bachelor of Philosophy, History and Geography, UCM - Madrid
1979 - 2008 History teacher, French School in Madrid
1979 - 2009 Combines teaching with private workshops (Drawing, Oil, Watercolor, Printmaking)
2002 - 2004 Fine Arts Courses, PUCP (Catholic University of Peru), Lima, Peru
2000 - 2010 Workshops, Fine Arts Circle of Madrid, Spain (with J. SEGUÍ, M. GALANDA)
Workshops, Complutense University Architecture School of Madrid
Workshops, CEU Architecture School of Madrid
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