Elías Peña Salvador (b. 1992 Alcorcón,Spain) graduated from the Fine Art Department of the Complutense University of Madrid and obtained his Master of Arts in Arts Education from Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. Salvador has held and participated in many local and international exhibitions, including solo exhibitions in China, Spain, and Italy. He was the recipient of the Erasmus Scholarship in Fine Art, and has received numerous awards, such as the “Arte Laguna International Painting Prize” in Venice, Italy. He also took part in various artist residencies, such as Jardin Orange in Shenzhen and Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency in Shanghai. Salvador is currently a member of PROA, an important artists collective and art studio in Madrid that promotes local art in Spain with a global perspective. He is currently graduating at the Royal College of Art in London.
Elías Peña Salvador
Medium:
Oil on canvasSize:
190x150 cm
Medium:
Oil on canvasSize:
190x150 cm
Medium:
Oil on canvasSize:
190x150 cm
Medium:
Charcoal on canvasSize:
190x150 cm
❝ Reality is in the painting, it is certainly not in the painting ❞
Utilising oil painting to explore the emotions surrounding human connection,
Elías Peña Salvador’s work interrogates how those emotions relate to identity.
From the personal to the political and sociocultural, he expresses the multitude
realities held by people and, in doing so, finds his own voice to channel those
stories.
Salvador’s work examines painting’s ability to combine forms and ideas, making
it a powerful catalyst for emotion and a means to represent complex feelings.
Blurring the boundaries between figurative and abstract, harmony and chaos,
intention and chance, his work balances the ebb and flow of life and its subjectivities.
Salvador frequently returns to drawing to serve as the architectural bones of his
work, seeking a freedom to apply paint in a less conscious way - his intention is ‘to reach the moment where the wave breaks to reveal what exists beyond the figurative’. He
leaves this revelation open, an invitation for the viewer to interpret