Javier Ortas
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Articles, interviews, reviews, radio and television appearances, publications, and collaborations.
Elle Decor Italia and AD Magazine A very artistic ship
ELLE Decor Italia
The green lounge and the playground feature reproductions by the Spanish artist Javier Ortas
AD Magazine
Artworks on the ship's deck
Anthology Magazine Cover Summer 2024
Irish magazine Voted best Irish magazine of 2024
Article in Anthology Magazine
"...as he develops as an artist, he realises that there is an ‘inventive purity".
Art Review in La Voz de Galicia
The Utopian Kaleidoscope Read the review
Hola Magazine
"Those who have magic do not need tricks", the gallery owner stated.
ABC Newspaper
"Exhibition at the Herraiz Gallery in Madrid".
Interview on Canal 8
Dos que sí, uno que no Programme.
RTV News
Exhibition in Santander.
Front page of El Mundo Newspaper
"Exhibition at the Herraiz Gallery in Madrid".
Cultural supplement of El Mundo Newspaper
Back cover in La Lectura.
Cadena SER
"Exhibition at the Herraiz Gallery in Madrid".
Europa Press
Javier Ortas' artworks land at Madrid Barajas.
Front page of La Vanguardia
Exhibition in Barcelona.
Arte Realizzata
"I never felt like I should be an artist; I knew I already was".
Be on loop. Creative minds for a better world.
I paint solely from my imagination, without using any model (with the same method and purity as cave artists), and I believe that because of this, my style is so personal and recognisable. Consequently, my pictorial work reflects me as an artist and as a person. Inspiration is my own impulse, my need and desire to express myself, to create a new painting every time. Reality is a distant reference in my work, and I value what is processed by my imagination much more, because it allows me to express my inner world. Read more
Culturas. Cultural supplement of La Vanguardia
Exhibition at the Mar Gallery in Barcelona.
Book Cover of Canasta de Comadres
Novel by the writer Mónica Castellanos
Cover and Promotional Poster for the 86th Autumn Salon
Visual image of the AEPE Autumn Salon.
Article in the cultural magazine Apuntes de la sierra
Facing the blank canvas is what motivates Javier Ortas the most. It is also the exact moment he needs to set his creative machinery in motion, combining thematic exploration with drawing, geometry, long brushstrokes, a firm line, and chromatic freedom.
Radio Internacional
Radio programme. Interview on Por amor al arte
Club Financiero Génova Magazine
Article about Javier Ortas and the sculptor Santiago de Santiago. Solo exhibition at Centro Colón, Madrid.
Diario de Navarra
"The truth is that his painting is vital."
Diario de Navarra
"Brushstrokes of fantasy in a dreamlike world."
Once the watercolour technique is mastered, it allows for the composition of innovative works. Facing the blank canvas is what motivates Javier Ortas the most. It is also the exact moment he needs to set his creative machinery in motion.
Javier Ortas in Navacerrada
A highly interesting artist who progresses as his exhibitions are showcased, earning the prestige of a fine artist. His themes form part of his everyday life, always marked by a very distinct style.
Ortas at Casa de Vacas in El Retiro
"Selected for the 51st Reina Sofía Prize for Painting and Sculpture, featuring a jury of renowned artists such as painters Rafael Canogar, Eduardo Naranjo, and Alejandro Aguilar Soria... He makes Renoir's statement his own: 'I only intend to paint well.'"
Ortas' Ceramics
"Surprising work by Javier Ortas, in this case, featuring a group exhibition in Galician lands with ceramics... Symbols and geometries form a conglomerate in which colour acquires a fundamental value..."
At Sánchez y Juan, Elche.
"Javier Ortas is a poet who paints; he could surely write beautiful poems. Instead, he prefers to use colour and brushes to express the lyrical feeling that overwhelms him when facing what inspires him." M.Losada.
Press releases about art exhibitions in various issues of Revistart Magazine.
Revistart No. 182
Pamplona. Michel Menendez Gallery. The artist imagines, thinks, and creates within his own style.
Revistart No. 172
Elche. Sánchez y Juan Gallery. Artists San Felices and Casanova also participated in the exhibition.
Revistart No. 170
Pozuelo de Alarcón at the Volturno Cultural Space, featuring the exhibition titled "Between the Lines".
Revistart No. 165
Javier Ortas. The Madrid-born painter Javier Ortas emerges strongly on the current art scene.
Revistart No. 181
Pamplona. Michel Menendez Gallery. The artist imagines, thinks, and creates within his own style.
Revistart No. 179
Madrid. We congratulate the painter on his recent Sala Baluarte Prize from the Tres Cantos Town Hall, presented by the AEPE at the 83rd Autumn Salon, for the artwork "Children Playing" (Niños Jugando), and for "Blowing in the Wind", which won an award at the Artemisia Art Competition.
Revistart No. 174
Madrid. The artist Javier Ortas participated in a new group exhibition, on this occasion following the selection of his artwork for the Autumn Salon Competition organised by the AEPE. This ran alongside his solo exhibition at the Sánchez y Juan Art Gallery in Alicante.
Revistart No. 175
Oropesa del Mar. Highlights of the current exhibition scene include group shows at the Ana Rubio Gallery, the 51st Reina Sofía Prize, the exhibition at the San José Exhibition Centre in Guadalajara, and his selection for the Emerging Artist Award Dubai.
Press releases about art exhibitions in various issues of Revistart Magazine.
Online Press Releases
1An Inner World Full of Colour
La Región Newspaper, Ourense.
Javier Ortas exhibits a collection of watercolours that invite the viewer to joy and optimism through the power of colour and the precision of his lines. Javier Ortas has consolidated his own distinct style in which he plays with linear composition through a very precise brushstroke, approaching different perspectives. By Mariló Pérez.
2Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport Fills with Colour with Javier Ortas' Artworks
Aena
Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport fills its exhibition corridor in Terminal 2 with colour through Ortas' paintings. The themes of his compositions are highly varied: people, landscapes, animals, still lifes, and scenes that could take place anywhere, which bestows upon his work a universal character.
3Galart Magazine
Magazine No. 351
Under the title "Lines of Colour", Javier Ortas presents his latest works. Splendid is the mastery Javier Ortas possesses over watercolour; he unravels tones and lights in a dazzling, spectacular manner. Facing his washes, one admires his capacity for drawing. His complex compositions are formed by the accumulation of sequences, all explained with precise detail; one can admire the firm stroke with which any everyday scene is resolved. He is a distinct, different watercolourist.
López Iglesias
Magazine No. 350
Javier Ortas is an excellent watercolourist. Young yet experienced, an innate knower of pictorial truth, and a master like few others of the difficult watercolour technique. All of this, his personality and his pictorial creation, translates into a high-quality body of work imbued with humanity, which invites us to discover his vision of the world, both as an artist and as a person.
M. Losada
4Tomás y Valiente Art Centre, CEART
CEART
Javier Ortas creates his artworks without using any model or visual reference whatsoever. He considers that "painting from imagination is the way to create the purest art, the form to express the artist's true essence and what lies within". Due to his innovative style, his work is recognised as unique and distinct by many professionals and experts in Spain and other countries such as Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Germany.
Read more5Javier Ortas, Winner of the Promotional Poster for the AEPE's 86th Autumn Salon
Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors
Splendid is the mastery Javier Ortas possesses over watercolour; he unravels tones and lights in a dazzling, spectacular manner. Facing his washes, one admires his capacity for drawing. His complex compositions are formed by the accumulation of sequences, all explained with precise detail; one can admire the firm stroke with which any everyday scene is resolved. He is a distinct, different watercolourist.
Read more6Painting Exhibition by Javier Ortas at the Ateneo de Madrid
Ateneo de Madrid
The exhibition showcases a selection of artworks from the most recent period of the Madrid-born painter Javier Ortas, featuring his own unique and unmistakable style. Set apart from influences and trends, the painter Javier Ortas commits to his personality and talent, offering us this original, modern, and innovative collection.
7Javier Ortas and the Long Brushstrokes of his Imaginative Watercolours
ArteLaraña
Javier Ortas is a highly creative contemporary artist, imaginative and with a very peculiar, geometric, and linear style. In his paintings, his original watercolours, he opts for long brushstrokes and vivid colours, combining basic tones with black, which makes them highly recognisable.
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