moises hergueta Biography

MOISÉS HERGUETA WAS BORN IN CADIZ, SPAIN. HAS BEEN PAINTING SINCE 80, PARALLEL TO HIS PROFESSION AS A TEACHER (IS IMPARTING CLASSES OF SUBJECTS RELATING TO DRAWING AND PAINTING FOR THE COUNSELOR OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE BOARD OF ANDALUCIA SINCE 1990). HAS DONE VARIOUS WORKS FOR THIRD PARTIES AS POSTERS, ADVERTISING, DECORATION OF ESTABLISHMENTS, MURALS, ARTISTIC LABELING OF VEHICLES AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, DISK COVERS, CLOTHING DESIGN, EPHEMERAL ARCHITECTURE, ETC. INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS ON THE WORK OF HIM: "SALA RAFAEL ARGELES" OF THE MUNICIPAL FOUNDATION OF CULTURE OF ALGECIRAS (CADIZ), 1999. "SALA CASA DE LA MARQUESITA" OF EXCMO. TOWN HALL OF PUERTO REAL (CADIZ), 1999. "HOUSE OF THE CULTURE OF LOS BARRIOS" (CADIZ), 2000. "CENTRO CULTURAL CHURCH SAN JOSE" PUERTO REAL (CADIZ), 2005. IN ADDITION TO DIFFERENT NATIONAL COLLECTIVES: "PUNIQUE DOMINGO PRUANO" (TREBUJENA) 2018 "PUNIQUE DOMINGO PRUANO" (TREBUJENA) 2014 "PROART" IN CULTURAL CENTER "ALFONSO X" (EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA) 2012 "PROART" IN CULTURAL CENTER "ALFONSO X" (EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA) 2008 "ALCALDE ZOILO RUIZ-MATEOS FOUNDATION" (ROTA) 2006 "PROART" IN CULTURAL CENTER "ALFONSO X" (EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA) 2006 "ARTEPOLIS ROOM" IN MADRID 2005 "CONXEMAR" (VIGO) 2004 "ACERARTE" (OVIEDO) 2004 "ALCALDE ZOILO RUIZ-MATEOS FOUNDATION" (ROTA) 2004 "CASINO BAHIA DE CADIZ" (EL PUERTO OF SANTA MARIA) .2000
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AND INTERNATIONAL: “TEXT AND IMAGE” IN SITE:BROOKLYN (NEW YORK-USA)2017 “OPENING GALLERY SLOVAKYA” IN “GALLERY SLOVAKYA” (BRATISLAVA-SLOVAKYA) 2014 "THE NEW SURREALISM: A COLLECTION OF STRANGE" IN "MODERN EDEN GALLERY" (SAN FRANCISCO-USA) 2010 "(NU) EROTIC FINE ART EXHIBIT" IN "VISIONS GALLERY & ARTANDDISCORD" (MEDWAY BOSTON USA), 2009 "INTERNATIONAL ART" AT JADITE GALLERY (NEW YORK-USA), 2005. "LIGHT, COLOR AND PASSION" IN "ICARO ART GALLERY" (LONG BEACH-CALIFORNIA-USA) 2004. AWARDS: FIRST PRIZE WALL PAINTING CONTEST “SIETE VILLAS DE GRANADA” 2019 SECOND BOGARRA PRIZE; URBAN ARTISTIC INTERVENTION PROJECT 2018 FIRST PRIZE BILLBOARD TREBUFESTIVAL TREBUJENA 2017 CONTEST FIRST PRIZE BILLBOARD TREBUFESTIVAL TREBUJENA 2018 CONTEST THIRD PRIZE CONTEST URBAN PAINTING REAL PUERTO 2015 FIRST PRIZE CONTEST URBAN PAINTING PUERTO REAL 2014 FIRST PRIZE BILLBOARD CARNVAL CONTEST PUERTO REAL 2005 FIRST PRIZE BILLBOARD CARNVAL ALGECIRAS 2001 CONTEST FIRST PRIZE IN THE FIRST COMPETITION OF THE CD WARE MAGAZINE.

Artist's Statement

Art helps me to create a small part of the world. With a deep sense of selfish all of this I do for personal satisfaction, I do it for me. But what is not given does not exist… Always with a pencil in hand, sketching, with multiple ideas rising from doodles, thoughts, photographs, dreams, memories… always listening to the birds that sang in my head; those are transforming into other, When a spark seduces me, I then developed it into a finished work, with a technique in constant process of research, experimentation and learning that never ends. My work is figurative form but with imaginative content. Always looking for impact. My favorite word is "ineffable" ...