Antonio Ballester Moreno studied at the Universität der Künstein in Berlin under Professor Lothar Baumgarten from 2000 to 2002 and later graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University in Madrid. His early work centred on video, but since 2006 he has used mostly paint on canvas, collage, ballpoint, felt-tip, crayon and coloured pencil drawing on paper as the methods that he feels are best suited to his idea of creative freedom. He advocates the unlearning of cultural stereotypes and follows the premises of art brut in regarding ‘genuine’ forms of artistic expression such as children’s drawings, amateur art, folklore and craftsmanship as primal methods uncorrupted by consumer society. This results in highly colourful work and expressive use of colour, with flat, contrasting shapes and child-like brushstrokes —including childhood drawings of his own— in schematic figurative scenes. These scenes depict everyday themes, with a seamless relationship between mankind, the animal world and nature in a style consistent with the anti-establishment, anti-technology stance adopted by the artist.
Although his career has not been a long one, his work has been shown in solo exhibitions at galleries such as the Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art (León, 2008) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2011 and 2017). In 2018 he took part in the Biennial in São Paulo as both an artist and the curator of the ‘Affective affinities’ exhibition. He has also exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, Seoul, Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid and been involved in numerous group exhibitions and publications devoted to the latest trends in pictorial art.
Antonio Ballester Moreno studied at the Universität der Künstein in Berlin under Professor Lothar Baumgarten from 2000 to 2002 and later graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University in Madrid. His early work centred on video, but since 2006 he has used mostly paint on canvas, collage, ballpoint, felt-tip, crayon and coloured pencil drawing on paper as the methods that he feels are best suited to his idea of creative freedom. He advocates the unlearning of cultural stereotypes and follows the premises of art brut in regarding ‘genuine’ forms of artistic expression such as children’s drawings, amateur art, folklore and craftsmanship as primal methods uncorrupted by consumer society. This results in highly colourful work and expressive use of colour, with flat, contrasting shapes and child-like brushstrokes —including childhood drawings of his own— in schematic figurative scenes. These scenes depict everyday themes, with a seamless relationship between mankind, the animal world and nature in a style consistent with the anti-establishment, anti-technology stance adopted by the artist.
Although his career has not been a long one, his work has been shown in solo exhibitions at galleries such as the Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art (León, 2008) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid, 2011 and 2017). In 2018 he took part in the Biennial in São Paulo as both an artist and the curator of the ‘Affective affinities’ exhibition. He has also exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, Seoul, Berlin, Barcelona and Madrid and been involved in numerous group exhibitions and publications devoted to the latest trends in pictorial art.