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The Lab is a source of information for Artists and Art Lovers alike. You can find useful information to help develop your career as an artist such as tutorials, interviews, news, and a lot more!

'Richard Hamilton': Exhibition set-up

This video on the set-up process of the exhibition Richard Hamilton (27 June – 13 October 2014) in the weeks prior to its opening shows the coordination between different teams in the Museo – from the curators to the conservators and assembly technicians – to install this complex and...
Interesting!, Visual Arts, 24/07/2014 (0) (111)

Cristina Lucas: ‘Es Capital’

Cristina Lucas (Jaén, 1973) comes to Valladolid with a site-specific project that analyses some of the main unknown factors, paradoxes and challenges of the current capitalist system. The exhibition Es Capital, curated by Manuela Villa, is made up of four newly created works produced in...
News, Visual Arts, 07/07/2014 (0) (95)

23 international artists have been selected for Luis Adelantado’s Call 2014

For the sixteenth Call 2014, 23 international artists were selected from more than 500 proposals submitted. Call 2014 is an international contest which this year, has been greatly strenghtened by the Fran Vila ...
News, Visual Arts, 07/07/2014 (0) (144)

Eugenio Merino: ‘Always Shameless’

Unix Gallery is pleased to announce Always Shameless by Eugenio Merino. The exhibition opens amidst the artist’s ongoing legal battles to defend freedom of speech in Spain after being sued over his controversial sculptures depicting dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975). His highly politicized...
News, Visual Arts, 09/06/2014 (0) (73)

Free download: 'The A-Z of Spanish Photographers'

An illustrated bibliographical dictionary with a significant amount of images, representative both of the variety of authors and of Spanish photography as a whole. A list of over 500 authors that spans the full spectrum of photography and that seeks to bear witness to its plurality. Andrea...
Interesting!, Visual Arts, 07/05/2014 (0) (514)

'New Spanish Photography_Visions beyond borders'

This exhibition aims to portrait the current contemporary Spanish photography panorama. More specifically, it shows the view of several artists on the urban and natural landscape across our borders, always captured from a critical or emotional perspective through photography. Courtesy of...
News, Visual Arts, 24/04/2014 (0) (417)

Discover A3bandas: different ways to approach the 28 exhibitions

The fourth edition of A3bandas has programmed 28 curated exhibitions in art galleries in Madrid and Barcelona. Do not miss it! Image courtesy of A3bandasWould you like to follow them? There will be Guided tours for the general public on Fridays and Saturdays (tours last for an hour and a half). It...
Interesting!, Visual Arts, 11/04/2014 (0) (1,293)

Tutorial: Merging two images in Photoshop by photographer Susana López.

Susana López is a visual artist from Gijón, Spain. She holds a Bachelor´s Degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting from Barcelona University, from where she also holds a PhD. She focuses mainly on photography and mixed media, where the subjects of her work are taken from and...
Tutorials, Visual Arts, 26/08/2013 (0) (1,578)

Spotlight Artist (by Debut Contemporary): Susana Lopez Fernandez

 Susana López Fernandez is a visual artist from Gijón, Spain. She holds a Bachelor´s Degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting from Barcelona University, from where she also holds a PhD. She focuses mainly on photography and mixed media, where the subjects of her work are taken...
Interviews, Visual Arts, 17/06/2013 (0) (2,023)

Tutorial by Esther Morales, graphic designer.

 Even though I'm fascinated by creating characters from scratch, conceiving and giving life to illustrations taken directly from my imagination, my head is also populated by fanarts. Video games, series, books, movies... There are a thousand worlds that call my attention, whose environment and...
Tutorials, Visual Arts, 10/04/2013 (0) (1,097)

Santy Gutiérrez teaches us how to create a cartoon character in Photoshop.

 Santy Gutiérrez, a professional illustrator, shares with us this simple yet telling tutorial on how to create a cartoon character in Photoshop, and opens the doors to his creative process in this insightful video of the artist at work. Born in A Coruña and a friend of the illustrator...
Tutorials, Visual Arts, 29/01/2013 (0) (842)

The Scarpia project, or how to introduce public art into a rural setting.

 We spoke to Miguel A. Moreno Carretero who told us about Scarpia, the artistic project he directs in El Carpio, Córdoba. For 12 years Scarpia has been organising artistic interventions in the natural and urban spaces of El Carpio,  as well as organising workshops with artists of...
Interviews, Visual Arts, 12/12/2012 (0) (436)

Sharing Art created by people with disabilities: an interview with Flavia Cuñer, director of Art Obert, Sitges, Spain.

 Art Obert Sitges [Open Art Sitges] is an art project for people with disabilities. Its first project started in 2008 in collaboration with the Ave María de Sitges Foundation, with sixteen users attending the art classes. Starting from each person’s possibilities and interests, the project has...
Interviews, Visual Arts, 05/12/2012 (0) (489)

Interview with illustrator Javi Montes.

We chatted with Gallego Javi Montes, a multifaceted artist who plies his trade as an illustrator nationally and internationally in a number of different areas, from comics to storyboard design and editorial illustration, he is especially outstanding his facility as a colourist. In this interview he...
Interviews, Visual Arts, 28/11/2012 (0) (683)

Interview with Esther Morales, illustrator and drawer.

Esther Morales  is an illustrator and drawer. She is currently studying her final year of Fine Arts in the Facultad de Bellas Artes de Salamanca , and is fully involved in various personal projects like the publication of an illustrated children´s book and a series of illustrations called “...
Interviews, Visual Arts, 14/11/2012 (0) (1,165)

Interview with Jacques Toulemonde, up-and-coming Colombian Film Director.

Jacques Toulemonde  is a young Colombian film director of French descent, who was born and raised in Bogota until he left his country in 2001 to study humanities and literature at La Sorbonne University, Paris. In parallel to his studies, he began working on various film projects that were...
Interviews, Visual Arts, 24/10/2012 (0) (492)

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