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Félix de la Concha was born in León, Spain, in 1962. From 1981 to 1985 he studied at the Facultad de Bellas Artes in Madrid. He was awarded the Prix de Rome at the Academia de Bellas Artes in 1989, and worked in Rome until 1994. In 1995 he moved to the United States with his wife, poet Ana Merino. He resides in Iowa City, Iowa, and Madrid, Spain.

His paintings are always done on site, in order to capture an accurate light, and study the passage of time. He focuses on architectural subjects, not only with prominent buildings, such as Fallingwater but also on common and even deteriorated places (gas stations, street lights, abandoned trailers, burned houses…). He does individual compositions and very often series of paintings and polyptychs.

He has focused on a particular format of portraiture. In video, the sitter can be seen talking, and the painting evolving from blank canvas to the very conclusion of the work.

SELECTED PROJECTS

• Columbus Cornered: One Season From Each Corner

The first major project in America consists of four panoramas comprising a total of 32 works painted at the corners of West Second and Michigan Avenues in Columbus, Ohio. Painted over a one-year period, each panorama depicts a single season.

Exhibited 1998: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio In the permanent collection of the Columbus Museum of Art

• One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning

A series of paintings of the University of Pittsburgh!s Cathedral of Learning from 365 different vantage points, one for each day of the year.

Exhibited 1999: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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• A Contrarreloj: A Race Against Time

An exhibition of 24 paintings, one for each hour of the day, depicting Clayton, the former home of Henry Clay Frick. The paintings create a double panorama view of Clayton!s exterior and its surrounding neighborhood. Included is a diary of 54 interior views of the house. The exhibition was a result of an artist-in-residency program sponsored by the Frick Art Museum & Historical Center.

Exhibited 2004: Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gc19QOELsc

• Fallingwater en Perspectiva: Félix de la Concha Paints Frank Lloyd Wright!s House on the Waterfall

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A series of paintings produced on-site over the course of two years from 2005 to 2006 at the invitation of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.

Exhibited 2007: Western Pennsylvania Conservancy at Fallingwater • 2008: State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg • 2009: Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, Oklahoma • 2009: Krause House, St. Louis, Missouri • 2009: Florida Southern College, Melvin Art Gallery, Lakeland, Florida • 2012: Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

On display in the permanent collection of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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http://www.fallingwaterenperspectiva.org/

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• Public Portraits/Public Conversations

A multimedia exhibition of 51 portraits and video recordings exploring the ways in which the portrait subjects have encountered conflict and their journey toward reconciliation.

Exhibited 2009: Hood Museum of Art and Baker Memorial Library, Dartmouth College In the permanent collection of the Hood Museum of Art.

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• Portraying Holocaust Survivors (in progress)

Portraits of Holocaust survivors from different countries accompanied by recorded testimonies. Undertaken in an intimate setting with time allowed for interaction, the survivors are invited to tell their story as their portrait is painted.

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• The Longest Story of Bilbao Ever Painted

Seven paintings with recorded interview sessions portraying elderly people in Bilbao, Spain. Produced as a documentary film and screened at several film festivals, it was awarded Best Documentary Short at SENE, and Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles International Film Festival.!!

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• Portraits With Conversations

A multidimensional portrayal of a number of leading Spanish cultural figures. The work includes recorded interviews on their life, work, and views on art.

Exhibited 2008: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid Exhibited 2011: Museo Cervantes, Valladolid

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/felixdelaconcha/

• Performance with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra

An experiment on synaesthesia, painting on stage in the middle of the orchestra as Maestro Stefan Sanderling brings the music to life.

Performed 2012: Toledo Museum of Art

http://www.toledosymphony.com/news/2012/01/30/main/spanish-painter-to-join-toledo-symphony-in-concert/

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• Panorama WBZ. Through the Looking-Glass

This painting is a metaphor for the place of its placement. Adapted to the area of the wall, it was done “in place,”

“at the place,” and “for the place” where it is permanently on display as part of the University of St.Gallen!s art

collection. The panorama gives a sense of coherent continuation, although the viewer!s position changes

constantly

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by a combination of different perspectives. We see the building simultaneously from both the outside

and the inside, even though we thought that had not changed our position at all.

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Commissioned by the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. View from outside.

10 pieces of 136 x 96 cms. (polyptych). Oil on canvas.

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Interior view

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•!St. Gallen Clock

This composition constructs a particular Swiss clock, painting twelve different perspective of the Postturmuhr clock, at the Bahnhofplatz in St. Gallen. Each painting represents one hour of the day.

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Exhibited 2009: Sangallensia IV. Christian Roellin Gallery. St. Gallen. Switzerland

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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS • Universität St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland • Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

• Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire • Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, New Hampshire

• Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • University of Pittsburgh, Alumni Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

• Colección La Caixa, Colecció Testimoni, Barcelona • La Pedrera, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid

• Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid • Teatro Real, Madrid

• Colección Campsa, Madrid

• Colección Banco de España, Madrid

• Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid • Ministerio de Defensa, Madrid

• Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Zaragoza • Lonja de Alicante

• Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander • Colección Saldañuela, Caja Burgos • Ayuntamiento de Albacete

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