February 18–March 18, 2023
Steve Turner is pleased to present La montaña más cercana, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Valencia-based Marina Iglesias. The exhibition is inspired by the idea of visiting ‘the closest mountain’, an experience that Iglesias compares to painting, something that nourishes but also challenges. The paintings are based on folklore, medieval and Renaissance painting, myth, tarot and ancient scientific illustration. Familiar and invented imagery are intermingled. Verdant landscapes, animals, flowers and trees provide the setting for strange, biomorphic fountains and silent female characters.
Marina Iglesias (born in 1991, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain) earned a BA in Fine Arts and an MA in Artistic Production at the Universitat Politècnica de València. She had a solo exhibition at Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Valencia (2021) and had her work included in group exhibitions at Eligere Gallery, Seoul and Kiaf, Seoul (2022). This is her first exhibition at Steve Turner.
Born 1991, Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
Lives and works in Valencia, Spain
Education
2016
MA, Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia
2014
BA, Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Solo Exhibitions
2023
La Montańa Más Cercana, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2021
Nocturna, Demonio o Flor, Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Valencia
2016
Mensajes de algún código secreto, A del Arte Gallery, Zaragoza, Spain
2015
Pintura y Ansiedad, CuidArt Room Marina Salud Hospital, Dénia, Alicante, Spain
2014
Elipsis pictórica, C.M.J., Mesón de Morella, Valencia
Group Exhibitions
2022
Kiaf, Seoul (with ELIGERE)
The Breakfast Club, Eligere, Seoul
2020
II Biennial of Painting Ma Isabel Comengé, Las Atarazanas, Valencia
2019
Ciudad de Manises National Painting Prize, EL ARTE-MUMAF, Valencia
Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid
2018
Art Marbella, Málaga, Spain
Art Public, University of Valéncia
2017
Capital Animal, El Carmen Cultural Center, Valencia
PAM! PAM! 17, IVAM Institut Valenciá d’Art Modern, Valencia
Una Mirada Crítica al Pasado de la Escuela, University of Sevilla, Spain
2016
XXV Vila de Paterna Painting Biennial, Antonio Ferrandis, Paterna, Valencia
IV Mardel Painting Call, El Carmen Cultural Center, Valencia
Emakimono, Encapsulados Project, Embassy of Spain in Tokyo
TOTAL Museum, Seoul
PAM! 16, IV Mostra de Produccions Artístiques i Multimèdia, Universitat, Politècnica de València
Odone DKV Prize for Plastic Arts, Frax Cultural Foundation, L’Alfas del Pi, Alicante, Spain
2015
100×100 2nd Edition, A del Arte Gallery, Zaragoza
2014
100×100, A del Arte Gallery, Zaragoza
Summer Song, Mostra d’Art Contemporani, Espai d’Art de l’Ajuntament de Benidorm, Alicante
Awards
2019
National Painting Prize, City of Manises, Valencia
2018
Art Public Award, university of Valéncia
2015
Odone Plastic Arts Award, DKV Art & Health Cátedra, Valencia
Bibliography
2021
“Spotlight: Marina Iglesias,” She Performs, May
