Bio
JUAN MEDINA
Born in Mexico City, 1950
Décédé à Paris, 2023
Places of residence: Mexico, France, United States.
Open studies in Art :
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Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Casa del Lago, Universidad Autonoma de México
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Centro Cultural "Los Talleres de Coyoacan"
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Universidad Iberoamericana
With time, the step from watercolor to oil was the resource that allowed him to approach with mastery the conscience of time encrusted in stone, wood, mirrors and all model –object that transfers Renaissance rhetoric without moralizing it.
Every one of Juan Medina’s paintings where “another” reflected universe emerges must be seen from this point of view: either the reflex is symmetric to another reality or it projects us, like the Mannerists, into a decomposition of space; hence to another figurative reality, that of memories, of which only he will hold the key.
His work expresses the desire of a new understanding of the everyday object, like a scientific approach to a latent reality. During more than 23 years he has painted progressively incorporating techniques and materials that have built a three-dimensional structure of virtual space.
The optic field in his recent works is not a mere assembly of trompe l’œil effects, it is the pragmatic synthesis of a hyperrealist-surrealist art that is in Mexico beginning to get rid of its atavism to folklore. In this sense, he is a part of the solid vanguard of Latin American artists that have been widely recognized abroad and that set the bases of Contemporary Art in Mexico.
Jorge Sánchez Becerril
Professor of Art History, National University of Mexico
Ph.D Architecture in Paris
AWARDS
Since 2012
ARC Approved Living Master™
2024
70è Salon d'Art de Milly la Forêt
Mayor's award (Posthumous)
2014
Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts "Médaille d'Argent"
Carroussel du Louvre (Paris, France)
2011
Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts « Prix Charles Cottet »
Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)
Artist’s Choice, American Art Collector Editor’s Choice, Award of Excellence
Sage Creek Gallery (Santa Fe, NM)
2010
Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Prix d’Honneur
Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)
2009
Director’s Choice Award
The Weatherburn Gallery (Naples, FL)
Since 2008
ARC Approved Living Artist™
2005
Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Silver Medal Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)
1999
"Mérite et Dévouement Français", Silver Medal
Carrousel du Louvre (Paris, France)