Al son del color…
Un aula de niños alborotados, una lluvia de dulces tras romper una piñata que todo lo inunda, un baile de carnaval, un concierto de rock, el bullicio de la gran ciudad. Pequeños seres a la maniera infantil del artista parecen danzar al son de la música, bajo una explosión de color. Una explosión de vida, de energía, de optimismo, de naturalidad, de felicidad, en un universo personal. O inventado. O tal vez sean delirios de artista, o nuestros. Tal vez sea la vida misma. Tal vez sea una invitación a recorrer esos recuerdos infantiles por los que transitamos en la madurez. Todo puede ser y puede no ser nada. Solo ellos los saben. Solo el artista lo sabe. (O tampoco).
Victoria Arribas Roldán
Comisaria y gestora cultural
INTERNACIONAL REPRESENTATION
Fairs, Museums, Galleries
* Caelis Galeria, Sanghai, Since January 2020
* Art Angler, New York. Since February 2012.
*Arteinversion, Madrid, Since Genuary 2010.
* Exposition 'Call Me, Work In Progress' - NEW YORK, Cabrini blv. January 2011 * Exposition, LANDSCAPES, In The Street, Washinton Square, New York, Febrero 2011 * Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with the exposition “Cartographies of Modernity, 100% Valencians”, December 2010-January 2011.
* Internation Art Fair of Dubia. March 2009.
* Fair 'Art-Event' 2008. Amberes, Belguim. November 2008.
* Exposition “One Man Show”, in the Museum of the Americas. Miami. August 2008 * Egyptian Museum. Horizontal Hall. December 2006. Cairo, Egypt.
* Internacional Fair of Contemporary Art of Stolkholm, STHLM Art Fair’05-Abril 2005. * Mark Gallery. New York Individual Expositions * 2019: Nueva York: “Muñecojones Exhibition”. Art Angler Gallery * 2018: Alicante: “BUSTLE”. Instituto Gil-Albert.
* 2017: Nueva York: “Express yourself”. Art Angler Gallery. * 2016: New York: “on paper”. Art Angler Gallery.
* 2015: New York: “Crazy Little Dolls”. Art Angler Gallery.
* MABE (Benicàssim Art Show). Octubre 2014.
* 2014: Ourense: “Who are you?...” Marcos Valcárcel Cultural Center.
* 2014: Alcoy: “Mall Way”. Alzamora Gallery * 2014- New York: “Final Arts”. Art Angler Gallery.
* 2013- New York: “Spaint”. Art Angler Gallery.
* 2013-Madrid: “The Death of an Artist”. Utopic Gallery. PAC (Platform of Contemporary Art )Collaboration. Commisioner Victoria Arribas.
* 2012- Alicante: “Latest Art, 21 Days”. Lonja del Pescado. Commisioners: Eduardo Lastres and Guillermina Perales.
* 2012- Madrid: “Vanity Scapes”. ARTEINVERSIÓN Art Gallery.
* 2012- New York: “Not Alone in NYC”. Opening on Leonard Street. Collaboration with Art Angler Gallery.
* 2011- Madrid: “Almost Black”, Moma-V Oracle of Art Gallery, September-November (Chinchón); “Call Me”, in the Art and Investigation Gallery, January-February. Etches and Paintings in ArteInversión, Madrid.
* 2010- Alcoy: “ My Son Can Do It, Too” in the Ovidi Montllor Center, April.
* 2009- Alcoy: Presentation of the Author's Folder “Minimums”: Etchings by Xavi Carbonell and Poems by Josep Sou. Presentation: Jordi Botella. Audio-visual projection: Gilberto Dobón. Cultural Center of Alcoy. October.
* 2009 Madrid: Exposition “Dreams”, in the Catarsis Gallery , March-April.
* 2008- Alcoy: “Capritxos”, in the Catalunya Bank Hall, October-January; Elche: Exposition “Black and White” in the Rectory Hall of the Miguel Hernández University, January.
* 2007- Madrid: Exposition in the Catarsis Gallery, January-February.
* 2006- Calpe: Exposition in the Culture Center of Calpe, August.
* 2005- Alcoy: “V.O.”, Culture Center of Alcoy, November; Ovidi Montllor Center, Homage to Ovidi, May.
* 2003- Benidorm: ASMARA Hall, December. Alicante: ACARA Gallery, November.
* 2002- Alcoy: UNESCO Hall, January; Elche: Orange Flower Art Gallery January * 2001- Alicante: Another Name Art Gallery, February.
* 2000- Alicante: Another Name Art Gallery, September. Exposition of Taules: objects designed for the Gallery.
* 1998- Elche: Gallery Casadalba , “The Art Lookout Point”. November.
Collective Expositions
* Art Plus Shanghai, Octubre 2020. Representado por Caelis Galeria.
* Shenzhen International Art Fair, Shanghai, March 2019. Representado por Caelis Galeria. * Affordable Art Fair New York, Septiembre 2019. Representado por Art Angler Gallery * Affordable Art Fair New York, March 2018. Representado por Art Angler Gallery.
* Art Madrid Feria 2017. Galeria Alonso Vidal. 2017 * Affordable Art Fair New York, March 2017. Representado por Art Angler Gallery.
* Homage to Manuel Vazquez Montalban. Pepe carvalho. Cervantes Institute Frankfurt/Munich/ Andorra/Palau Falguera de Sant Feliu de Llobregat.
* Affordable Art Fair New York, March 2016. Represented by Art Angler Gallery.
* Alonso Vidal Gallery “La Colección”.Barcelona * 21 DAYS LATEST ART. Artists' Collective. Lonja del Pescado.2015 * 2014- Valencia: “Latest Art Alicante” Carmen Center. October.
* Affordable Art Fair New York, September 2014. Represented by Art Angler Gallery.
* Affordable Art Fair New York, April 2014. Represented by Art Angler Gallery.
* Art Hamptons. The International Art Fair. Sculpture Fields of Nova’s Ark in Bridgehampton, NY. New York. Julio 2013. Represented by Art Angler.
* Affordable Art Fair New York, April 2013. Represented by Art Angler Gallery.
* “Office Curiosities”, Pilar Cubillo and PAC Art Gallery. Comissioners: Oscar García and Pilar Cubillo. February 2012. Madrid.
* XIII Painting Award at the University of Murcia, Exposition in the Almudí Palace Art Center, from 30/10 to 9/12 and in the Pedro Cando de Blanca Foundation, from 14/12 to 14/01/13. Murcia * ARTEANDO International Fair of Contemporary Art. Irún 2012. Represented by the Marita Segovia Gallery (Madrid).
* “Carbonell, Ibarra and Tamargo”, collective exposition in Art Angler Gallery, New York. May 2012.
* Affordable Art Fair New York, Spring 2012, with Art Angler Gallery. April 2012. New York.
* III Biennial Etching of Valladolid. Pimentel Palace. March-April 2012. Valladolid.
* “F5 Actualizar”, Nuevoarte Gallery, Sevilla. March 2011.
* ROOM ART FAIR 2011. Represented in the Fair by PAC. Madrid. December 2011.
* ESTAMPA Multiple Art. Represented in the Estampa Fair by the Artein-versión Gallery. Madrid. October 2011.
* “Story Crossings”, Art Center of Alcoy (CADA) Alcoy June-September 2011. Commisioned by José Piqueras.
* “Tradition and Avante-Garde in Alcoyan Paintings of the XX century”, Lonja de Alicante, January-March 2011. Alicante.
* “Unauthorized Autobiographies”, Carmen de la Guerra gallery/ARTENDENCIAS, October- December 2010, Madrid. Commisioned by Victoria Arribas Roldán.
* “Gran Coleccionable”, Catarsis Gallery, Madrid, yearly end of the season collective exposition, having taken part in these expositions from 2004 to 2010.
* “Cartography of Creativity. 100% Valencians”. This exposition could be seen in the IVAMCentre del Carme from feb-may 2010 and in the Art Musuem.
Santo Domingo Modern, in the Dominican Republic, December-January 2010/11. Commisioned by Rafael Gil Salinas.
* BANCAJA AWARDS 2006, 2008, 2009, with motive of the selected works in mentioned editions, the work of Xavi Carbonell have been displayed in Valencia, Muralla Hall of the IVAM in: 2009 for the XXXVI edition and in 2006 for the XXXIII edition; Alicante, Bancaja Foundation in Alicante in 2008 XXXV edition and in 2007 XXXIII edition; Madrid, Museum of the City 2007 XXXIII edition; Albacete, Cultural Center La Asunción 2006 XXXIII edition.
* PLASTIC ART AWARDS 2006 ALICANTE COUNSEL, exposition in the Lonja del Pescado in Alicante in 2006. Work adquired by the Counsel of Alicante in this convocatory.
* “100 Solidary Artists”, collective exposition that could be seen in Novelda in 2006, and in Alicante, in the Social Headquarters of the Territorial School of Architects in Alicante, in 2007.
* “30 Alicantian Painters”, 2007, Cultural Centers of Calpe; Lonja del Pescado in Alicante.
* “Homage to Ovidi”, Ovidi Montllor Center¸2005. Alcoy.
* From 1996 to 2004, There have been many expositions done by Xavi Carbonell in Alcoy, amongst them: “Esclats. Art Alcoià Generation of the 90s”, “Alcoian Artists with the People of the Sahara”, “Alcoians and no”, and “Art for Human Rights”.