Javier Baldeón began his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 1979. From 1987 to 1989 he held a residency at Casa Velázquez in Madrid under a grant from Valencia City Council. In 1998 he obtained a PhD from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He currently works as a lecturer at the Department of Art and as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Castilla-La Mancha's campus in Cuenca.
His work is essentially abstract in nature. He shies away from representative art and strives to find expressiveness through colour. During his residency at Casa Velázquez in the late 1980s his work began to be characterised by subtle silhouettes sketched onto bright, flat, enamelled surfaces, with great simplicity in colour and shape. He introduces emotion into his apparently rational, somewhat rigid works through clever variations that seek to challenge the limits between the organic and the geometrical. He uses repetition and reproducibility to reflect on randomness, causality and chance.
The first solo exhibition of his work took place at the Fúcares Gallery in Almagro in 1984, when he was still a student. Since then his art has appeared in collective exhibitions at the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (Madrid, 1988), the Institute of Modern Art of Valencia (Valencia, 1988), the Fondation Cartier (Paris, 1990-1991), the Santa Mónica Art Centre (Barcelona, 1992), the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid, 1994), the Wilfredo Lam Centre (Havana, 1995), the La Caixa Foundation (Madrid, 1997) and the Domus Artium (Salamanca, 2017). His most prominent solo exhibition is that staged at the Pedro Oliveira Gallery (Porto, Portugal, 1999).
Javier Baldeón began his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 1979. From 1987 to 1989 he held a residency at Casa Velázquez in Madrid under a grant from Valencia City Council. In 1998 he obtained a PhD from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He currently works as a lecturer at the Department of Art and as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Castilla-La Mancha's campus in Cuenca.
His work is essentially abstract in nature. He shies away from representative art and strives to find expressiveness through colour. During his residency at Casa Velázquez in the late 1980s his work began to be characterised by subtle silhouettes sketched onto bright, flat, enamelled surfaces, with great simplicity in colour and shape. He introduces emotion into his apparently rational, somewhat rigid works through clever variations that seek to challenge the limits between the organic and the geometrical. He uses repetition and reproducibility to reflect on randomness, causality and chance.
The first solo exhibition of his work took place at the Fúcares Gallery in Almagro in 1984, when he was still a student. Since then his art has appeared in collective exhibitions at the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (Madrid, 1988), the Institute of Modern Art of Valencia (Valencia, 1988), the Fondation Cartier (Paris, 1990-1991), the Santa Mónica Art Centre (Barcelona, 1992), the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid, 1994), the Wilfredo Lam Centre (Havana, 1995), the La Caixa Foundation (Madrid, 1997) and the Domus Artium (Salamanca, 2017). His most prominent solo exhibition is that staged at the Pedro Oliveira Gallery (Porto, Portugal, 1999).