El Chirri (Jose Antonio) Martinez Porras

C/ Federico Garcia Lorca 38
DAGANZO DE ARRIVA 28814 MADRID
España (Spain)
Tel.: (00 34) 918 875 571
Email: l5-@l5-din-a4.org
Site: http://www.elchirri.com/

Trayectoria

• 1975    Primer puesto XVII Certamen de Arte Ciudad de Logroño (La Rioja)
• 1976    Subcampeon provincial de dibujo “T. I Grupo B”
• 1978    CAMPEON provincial de dibujo “T. I Grupo A”‘
• 1983    CARTEL anunciador para ei EL PRIMER MEMORIAL G. MOREDA (Alberite ) LA RIOJA
• 1985    CARTEL SELECCIONADO PARA LA FIESTA DE LA VENDIMIA RIOJANA
• 1987    PRIMER PREMIO cartel anunciador de LA MUESTRA JOVEN DE ARTES PLASTICAS (La Rioja)
• 1997    DISEÑO DE ANAGRAMA para el II festival nacional de foik Alberite (La Rioja)
• 1980-82    EXPOSICION DE ARTISTAS RIOJANOS (Alberite) Sala de Cultura (La Rioja)
• 1981    EXPOSICION INDIVIDUAL Sala de Cultura de Alberite (La Rioja)
• 1983    COLECTIVO TALLER “DEMETRIO NAVARIDAS “GALERLA BERRUET” (La Rioja)
• 1983-97    MEMORLAL PINTOR MOREDA del I al XVII (Alberite, La Rioja)
• 1984    “CENSURA DEL CUADRO presentado para el II MEMORIAL PINTOR MOREDA
• 1985-88    MUESTRA JOVEN DE ARTES PLASTICAS I, II, III, IV (La Rioja)
• 1986    MANOS POR LA LIBERTAD (Amnistia Internacional) Itinerante por La Rioja, Junto a “MANUEL SAINZ” y otros artistas de LA Rioja
• 1990    CHIRRI y PEREZ PARDO Sala Municipal de Torrijon de Ardoz (Madrid)
• 1992    INDIVIDUAL Ayto. De Logroño La Rioja)
• 1995    “ARTE VET” Colectiva, Ciudad Universitaria (Madrid)
• 1995    PINTORES DE ALBERITE, Sala de Cultura de Alberite (La Rioja)
• 1996    INDIVIDUAL, Taberna Encantada (Madrid)
• 1996    INDIVIDUAL Pub Bogar (Soria)
• 1997    “TRES PROPUESTAS PARA EL ARTE” Palacio del Infantado (Guadalajara)
• 1997    INDIVIDUAL, Centro Civic, Sant Esteve Sesrovires (Barcelona)
• 1997    OBRA SELECCIONADA il Certamen Nacional Ciudad de Calahorra, dos cuadros en el “Museo de Calahorra” (La Rioja)
• 1997    INDIVlDUAL Sala de Cultura de Alberite (La Rioja)
• 1997    INDIVIDUAL, Saia Muncipal de Collado Villalba “EL PONTON” (Madrid)
• 1998    INDIVIDUAL “Pub Cuba Alberite” (La Rioja)
• 1998-99    Memorial Pintor Moreda XVIII-XIX Alberite (La Rioja)
• 1999    Rincones de Alberite, Colectiva. Sala de Cultura de Alberite (La Rioja)
• 1999    Colectiva de “EFECTOS OPTICOS”. Planetario de Rosario (ARGENTINA)
• 2000    Diseño Anagrama de IV Festival nacional de Foik Alberite (La Rioja)
• 2000    INDIVIDUAL de “Engaños opticos” en Ia C. C. “La Jaramilla de Coslada” (Madrid)
• 2000-03    MEMORIAL PINTOR MOREDA XX-XXII Alberite (La Rioja)
• 2OOO    Exposición colectiva “FERIA DE ARTE Y ANTlGUEDADES” en el Recinto ferial JUAN CARLOS PRIMERO (Madrid)
• 2OOO    “CAMINO DE ENCUENTROS” Colectiva de Artistas Cantabros, Vascos, y Riojanos en la Sala de Cultura de Alberite La Rioja)
• 2OOO    GALERIA GAUDI “CoIectiva de diversos autores” (Madrid)
• 2OOO    CARTEL anunciador premiado y elegido por la “Organizacion Mundial de! Ozono” para la celebración del “DIA MUNDIAL DELOZONO”
• 2000    INDIVIDUAL, Casa de Cultura de L’Aifas dei Pi. (Alicante)
• 2OOO    INDIVIDUAL, “Restaurante Asador Ia Hoguera” Logroño (La Rioja)
• 2001    INDIVIDUAL de “ENGAÑOS OPTICOS” Modas Aguirre Beasain’ (Guipûzcoa)
• 2001    INDIVIDUAL Casa de Cultura de Torrejon de Anioz (Madrid)
• 2001    INDIVIDUAL, “Restaurante Asador Ia Hoguera” Logroño (La Rioja)
• 2002    INDIVIDUAL, Centro Cïvic, Sant Esteve de Serrovires (Barcelona)
• 2002    DISEÑO del anagrama para el V FESTIVAL NACIONAL DE FOLK ALBERITE (La Rioja)
• 2002    INDIVIDUAL, Centro Civico de Alcovendas “ANABEL SEGURA” (Madrid)
• 2002    INDIVIDUAL Centro Cultural “LA DESPERNADA” Villanueva de Ia Cañada (Madrid)
• 2003    INDIVIDUAL Centro Integrado Arganzuela (Madrid)
• 2003    CUARTO PREMIO en LA BIENAL DE FLORENCIA (modalidad de pintura) (ITALIA)
• 2004    INDIVIDUAL Centro Cultural Casa del Reloj, Sala la Lonja (Madrid)

Cuadros en museos e instituciones

• MUSEO DEL VINO de Briones, (La Rioja)
• DELEGACION CULTURAL (Guadalajara)
• FONDOS PARA EL FUTURO MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO de Alberite (La Rioja)
• AYTO DE SANT ESTEVE SESROYVIRES (Barcelona)
• CASA DE CULTURA DE COLLADO VILLALVLA (Madrid)
• MUSEO DEL PIANETARIO DE ROSARIO (ARGENTINA)
• CASA DE CULTURA DE L’ ALFAS DEL Pl (Alicante)
• C.C LA JARAMILLA de Coslada (Madrid)
• CASA DE CULTURA DE TORREJON DE ARDOZ (Madrid)
• CASA HERMITA DE LOMOS DE HORIO (La Rioja)

About the work 

Over the past years, the topic of my pictures has gone around our ancestors´ reminscences represented inside the old rooms. Here, the human element appears in a latent way. In the recent ones, however, this element is clearer with the emerging of faces (sometimes formed by animals) among stones or cobwebs, shaping, at the same time, other faces "where the single one is linked with the everything". We are looking through the window of life that separates the outside from the inside but, for some reason, we only see what we have within.

The study of the lights (as I see it) emerges a an ambicious, but not impossible, challenge. The game consists of catching the atmosphere of a certain instant of the day.

A manifest for the new century

Long time before I was born, Photography had liberated painters from the responsibility of portraying external reality. Taking the baton from the Impressionists, their heirs headed by Fauve and Matisse, with their wild colours, at the very beginning of the Twentieth century, ended by exploding the old fashioned Academicism, thus opening the great source of the historical Avantgardes, giving continuously rise to "isms". 

In my opinion the following are outstanding painters and currents: E. Munch and the violent but touching Expressionism, Picasso who in the search of his own way, found out, after Cubism, the innocence in painting. Meanwhile, the Surrealists, in debt to the radical Dadaism, explored into the unconscious, and Kandinsky announced through Abstraction, that the Image was wore.

The abandonment of perspective, smashing silhouettes, increasingly less recognizable, over the canvass, the emergence of "fields of colour", the energetic "gesture" as stroke, the textures, the "Material" painting, the "plain colours" barely elaborated, the childlike, or like crazy, drawing with deliberately deformed boundaries, and that growing trend to simplification, the displayed scene loosing importance in favor of the picture itself, and the apparently unfinished appearance of the pictures, imply an interesting step in the History of Art, but it has not been assumed by the people.

Nowadays, in the blurred line between the two centuries, we approve that the artist is just the end of the wire that merge every people and from which shoot, through the art,    little pieces of the extensive mystery that shapes the perception and the human soul.

Therefore I can affirm that the art is anonymous, the main issue is the work, not the artist. The signature is only a market issue. Indeed, this market issue is the responsible to place and remove artists and tendencies.

To finish my opinion from the beginning of the XXI century I am going to say that I pretend to stay away from the current fashion.

I VINDICATE the need of telling something.  Probably such “something” has no sense, but no matter at all: I am not here to solve misteries, but to plan them. Also i do not like to affirm, I prefer to suggest.

CHIRRI