Guille Caivano was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1977. He first studied Art at Chelsea School of Art in 2000. Guille went on to study BA Fine Art and Art History at Goldsmiths University, before graduating from the Royal Academy, London with an MA in Painting.
Guille Caivano plays in his work with images from a vast array of sources, trying to have the freedom to enjoy the process of painting and experiment with the medium. His paintings can be very expressive and colourful, but also minimalist, sometimes abstract then again figurative, using many different painting styles to create works that deal with both his own environment as well as Politics, Misticism and Art History.
Paintings are the result of a series of actions and retain both the successes and mistakes that this entails, the disparate marks on the canvas (from the vaporous quality of spray paint, to the graphic nature of pencil and oil impastos) are traces from which the viewer can reconstruct their making.
Those diverse textures, themes and lights encourage an emotive and subjective response in the viewer while investigating the nature of our perception and the meaning of the contemporary images.
Guille lives and works in Barcelona.
Selected shows
-“Only Lovers” at Le Coeur, Paris, 2016, France.
– “Don’t Shoot the Painter”. Paintings from UBS Art Collection, Curated by Francesco Buonami, Galleria d’Arte Moderna of Milan, Milano, 2016, Italy
– Forever Young, Piasa, curated by Thimotée Chaillou, Paris, France.
– « Lovely so Real » Renaissance Society University of Chicago, USA.
– “Let ́s party for a piece of Art”, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
– ArtBrussels , Bruseels, Belgium.
– Garageland, Issue 6 : Supernatural, Transitions Editions : Supernatural chat with Marcus Coates, Rachel Shannon, Guillermo Caivano and David Burrows.
– Size Matters: XS, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA.
– Solo Show “Ekagrata”, IBID PROJECTS, London, UK- Remap [KM], Kerameikos/Metaxourgeio district, Athens, Greece.
– Size Matters: XS, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA, – – Anticipation, One One One, London, UK.
– Salon 07 : New British Painting and Work on Paper, London, UK.
– Royal Academy, Final Show, London, UK.
– Liste 06 : The Young Art Fair, Basel, Suiza.
– Villa Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
