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Abbé Nozal is a Spanish artist whose extensive professional career has been expressed in multiple creative disciplines: painting, graphic art, digital art, illustration and corporate design, ceramic murals, concrete sculptures, stained glass in reinforced concrete. At present he shares painting with two of his most recent passions: cinema and stained glass sculptures.
In 2004 he directed his first short feature film, “La canción de Marta” (Marta’s Song), in 35 mm which obtained in July 2005 the award for the “Best foreign language short feature film” at the New York II Film Festival in Las Vegas.
Concerning stained glass sculptures, he has designed the “The Memory of Water” project as a challenge towards urban sculpture.
As a painter he has held 22 individual exhibitions and 61 collective exhibitions since 1969, in Spain, UK, USA and France. In 1986 he was invited to participate at the inauguration of the Art Centre Reina Sofía in Madrid, at the exhibition "Processes, Culture and New Technologies", and there he showed his first works with an exclusively digital conception and development.
He has taught numerous courses of Design, as well as different seminars about the relationship between art and society. During 1996/7 he lectured at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France, the Spanish Institute and the One World Trade Centre of New York, USA.
He is a long-time collaborator of different media. From 1988 up to 1996 he maintained the opinion section "Cuatro cantones" at the Spanish El Norte de Castilla newspaper. In that year he promoted the group ADN (Arte Durante Nespués) for the execution of impossible projects, integrated by artists from Spain, USA, France and Venezuela, negotiating the installation "Ties." In 1992 he created “La Casa del Agua” (The House of Water), an entity for the promotion of Arts, developing an important cycle of talks from the most noted contemporary writers and carrying out different collective exhibitions as "Painters in Front of the Bull" (1992), "The Never Seen" (1995), which was pioneering in the edition of a Braille catalogue, and "Seeing Palencia” (1996).
In 1995 he was the first Spanish artist who brought his studio to Internet; today the pages of www.nozal.com website are a strong referent of discussion on digital art. They offer nearly 300 works and they receive more than 4,000 monthly visits.
In 1998 he attended the Workshop of New Digital Technologies, sponsored by the Botín Foundation and endorsed by José Ramón Alcalá, professor of New Technologies at the Cuenca Faculty of Arts (Spain).
In 2004 he scripted and directed the short feature film Marta's Song, in 35 mm. It was produced by VITAE PICTURES PRODUCTIONS and in July 2005, obtained the prize for the best foreign language short movie at the New York II Film Festival of Las Vegas.
THESE WRITERS HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT NOZAL: José Antonio Castro, Santiago Amón, Félix Carbajo, Manolo Conde, Antonio Corral Castanedo, Victoriano Crémer, Ramón García Dominguez, Jesús Alonso Burgos, Fernando Mon, Teresa Ortega Coca, Emilio Salcedo, Luis Garc Lacruz, Manolo Lacarta, Marcelino García Velasco, Aránzazu Naranjo, Anna María Cian, Xavier Domingo, Manuel Talens, Raúl Guerra Garrido.
AWARDS: 1970: First Prize with Special Mention at the Certamen Juvenil de Arte Español (Spain). 1972: II Internacional de Pintura "Calviá", Majorca, Spain. 1975: Nacional de Pintura Diputación de Segovia (Spain). 1977: National Watercolour Award Valladolid. Tercer Certamen Internacional Palma de Mallorca. X Concurso Internacional de Pintura de León. VIII Nacional de Pintura "José de Ribera" en Játiva, Valencia. Seleccionado Bienal Ciudad de Zamora (Spain). 1978: Seleccionado Certamen Nacional de Acuarela de Valladolid. Premio Nacional de Dibujo "Antonio del Rincón", Guadalajara. VIII Internacional de Pintura "Calviá", Palma de Majorca. XVII Internacional de Dibuix "Joan Miró", Barcelona. IV Nacional de Pintura "Adaja", Avila (all in Spain). 1979: Adaja Collection, "Avila" Art Hall, Madrid. He was guest artist at the First Arts Meeting, London. First Special watercolor Prize, III Nacional de Artes Plásticas del Mutualismo, Madrid (Spain). 1982: Guest artist at the I Exposición Pintores de Castilla y León organised by the Consejo General de Castilla y León, in Burgos (Spain). 1983: He was a jury member at the Premio Nacional de Pintura "Jorge Manrique", together with art critic Santiago Amón and painter Germán Calvo. After that experience he discovered the artificiality of any art verdict and promised to himself to no longer take part in any prizes. He has kept his word since: from 1983 on he stopped attending competition prizes.
ILLUSTRATION: Books: "El Rey de las Tempestades", by Parker Menegin. "Salmos de la Palabra", by Emilio del Río. "Andalú", by Jorge Sendero. “Comotú y Comoyo”, by Ramón García Domínguez. “La parábola de Carmen la Reina”, “Rueda del tiempo” and “La cinta de Moebius”, by Manuel Talens, “La lengua del pueblo”, by James Petras. Journals and Magazines: "Palencia/34", "Hoja del Lunes", "Rombo", "Flash-Moda", "El Norte de Castilla", “Interviú”, “Epítome”.
COMICS: Since 1976, under the pseudonym "JOSUA" he publishes: "Cacharrín", Hebén", "La Creación de Josua", "Romancero Castellano", "Nacho".
SET DESIGN: For the Samuel Beckett Group: "El Supergerente", by Martínez Mediero (1970). For the"Bernesga" Group: "Prohibido todo lo que no es obligatorio", by Jorge Díaz (1972). For T.P.T.P.: Personal production (1987). With C.T.I.: "Misiles de Oro" (1988).
AUDIO-VISUALS: "Color-Color", 1975. "Crepusculario", 1981. "Proceso sobre partitura" (transparency over digital image), 1986. "Proceso sobre paisaje" (transparency over digital image), 1987. "Jorge Manrique, hoy" (16 mm B/W, 20’), 1978.
GRAPHIC WORK: INDIVIDUAL: 1979: "Aire" (serigraph: 100 u. Size: 45 cm x 68 cm), 1974. "V Centenario de la muerte de Jorge Manrique" (serigraph: 50 folders x 21 serigraph/folder. Size: 54 cm x 72 cm). 1982: "Amaya, Disoses Griegos" (lithography: 200 folders. x 24 plates/folder. Size: 34 cm x 23 cm). 1994: "Palencia Ayuda" (serigraph: 150 u. Size: 54 x 72 cm), for Médicos del Mundo. 1993: "El Cristo" (collection of 22 postcards, 16 cm x 22 cm). 1998: "Digital Art-Dollar", produced by the Fundación Botín de Santander (6 limited edition engravings inside the same number of folders 50 cm x 35 cm, dotting 14 cm x 14 cm) 2001: 2nd part of "Digital Art-Dollar" (10 giclées on canvas, limited edition of 60u.). 2003: "Un Gigabyte en la retina" 24 giclées, limited edition of 30u. on canvas 45 cm x 45 cm.
GRAPHIC WORK: COLLECTIVE: 1978: "Homenaje a César Vallejo" (serigraph: 100 FOLDERS x 12 serigraphs/folder. Size: 54 cm x 72 cm) Colectiva Pintores de Valladolid. 1990: "Pintores frente al Toro" (offset folder with 10 plates, 38 cm x 55 cm, edition: 500 folders), Junta de Castilla y León. "Ver Palencia" (offset folder 12 plates, 65 cm x 45 cm, edition: 2.000 folders).
MURALS AND STAINED GLASSES: Stained-glass cement windows: Valladolid, Alicante, Pontevedra (Spain). Stained glass on lead: Palencia, Cevico de la Torre (Spain). Reinforced concrete murals: Valladolid, Zaragoza (Spain). Ceramic murals: Valladolid (9 u.), Madrid. Reinforced concrete group of sculptures: Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia, Spain).
EXHIBITIONS: 22 individual exhibitions and 61 collective exhibitions in Spain, UK, USA and France.
INTERNET: In 1995 he developed his website www.nozal.com: 16 permanent exhibitions. The same year he created the "Impossible Museum". He obtained several awards in web design. He has authored more than a dozen websites, including: www.vitaepictures.com, www.manueltalens.com, www.tlaxcala.es, www.yosoyelquesoy.com, etc.
CINEMA: In 2004 he wrote and directed 'La canción de Marta' (Marta’s Song), short film in 35 mm with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound produced by 'Vitae Pictures Productions'. This film obtained on July 2005 the award for “Best foreign language film” at the New York II Film Festival at Las Vegas. Recently he has directed his second and third short films: ‘Cervecita milagrosa’ and ‘El Puente de Pitágoras’. Currently he is preparing his first feature film: ‘Dollar and the black Virgin’.