Artist
Sebastián Barberá
1964. Mexican visual artist.
He bears this name after Johann Sebastian Bach. Son of the great harpsichordist Luisa Durón, he grew up in an almost Renaissance-like environment, among artists and under the primary shelter of the baroque music of Bach himself and of Hottetere, Couperin and Scarlatti, among others. From a very early age he showed great talent for drawing, painting and sculpture, and at the age of ten he won the national school art competition. Surely, and from then on, he knew that art was the path to follow.
From a very young age he studied percussion, painting and printmaking with great masters, and he clearly devoted himself to the visual arts from the age of 17, after a mystical trip to India. Self-taught, he pursued the program independently at the Academy of San Carlos and, in parallel, earned a degree in Industrial Design.
As with every good young painter, at first it is difficult to exhibit in galleries and museums, but his first patrons soon arrived: Mauricio Achar and Luis Méndez Jiménez, who arranged for Juan Sebastián to turn the walls of the emblematic café of the Gandhi Bookstore into a private exhibition space, a gathering point for great Mexican and international intellectuals such as Fernando Savater, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz and artists, among them, Arnaldo Cohen, Vicente Rojo, Jan Hendrix and José Luis Cuevas.
From 1990 onward he traveled to Europe with projects and exhibitions that allowed him to live for periods in Vienna, Madrid, Barcelona and Paris. He studied his great masters, mainly Klimt, Schiele, Goya and Picasso. From these experiences he has produced around 5,000 works, including drawings, prints, acrylics, oils, sculpture and object art. He has held more than 50 solo shows in cultural centers, museums and prestigious galleries in different countries, among them Mexico, Spain, France, Israel, the United States and India, and in all the countries of Ibero-America in the group exhibition «Iberoamérica pinta», organized by UNESCO and the Fondo de Cultura Económica in 1997-2000.
His work is currently found in important collections such as: the Royal House of Spain, the collection of the Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Caja de Badajoz, Fundación Telefónica México, Fundación Casteinouvo in Segovia, Banco Central Hispanoamericano, Gandhi Bookstore, Sport City, Conalep and Acuática Nelson Vargas Interlomas.
He bears this name after Johann Sebastian Bach. Son of the great harpsichordist Luisa Durón, he grew up in an almost Renaissance-like environment, among artists and under the primary shelter of the baroque music of Bach himself and of Hottetere, Couperin and Scarlatti, among others. From a very early age he showed great talent for drawing, painting and sculpture, and at the age of ten he won the national school art competition. Surely, and from then on, he knew that art was the path to follow.
From a very young age he studied percussion, painting and printmaking with great masters, and he clearly devoted himself to the visual arts from the age of 17, after a mystical trip to India. Self-taught, he pursued the program independently at the Academy of San Carlos and, in parallel, earned a degree in Industrial Design.
As with every good young painter, at first it is difficult to exhibit in galleries and museums, but his first patrons soon arrived: Mauricio Achar and Luis Méndez Jiménez, who arranged for Juan Sebastián to turn the walls of the emblematic café of the Gandhi Bookstore into a private exhibition space, a gathering point for great Mexican and international intellectuals such as Fernando Savater, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz and artists, among them, Arnaldo Cohen, Vicente Rojo, Jan Hendrix and José Luis Cuevas.
From 1990 onward he traveled to Europe with projects and exhibitions that allowed him to live for periods in Vienna, Madrid, Barcelona and Paris. He studied his great masters, mainly Klimt, Schiele, Goya and Picasso. From these experiences he has produced around 5,000 works, including drawings, prints, acrylics, oils, sculpture and object art. He has held more than 50 solo shows in cultural centers, museums and prestigious galleries in different countries, among them Mexico, Spain, France, Israel, the United States and India, and in all the countries of Ibero-America in the group exhibition «Iberoamérica pinta», organized by UNESCO and the Fondo de Cultura Económica in 1997-2000.
His work is currently found in important collections such as: the Royal House of Spain, the collection of the Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Caja de Badajoz, Fundación Telefónica México, Fundación Casteinouvo in Segovia, Banco Central Hispanoamericano, Gandhi Bookstore, Sport City, Conalep and Acuática Nelson Vargas Interlomas.
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