Title: Shellfish 10 Artist: Diax Izaguirre Medium: Size: Height x Width: 45cm x 45cm stretch canvas, double coated universal primer Click on IMAGE for larger viewArtist Statement: Innovation only takes place within a established framework. Biography: Diax, Greg (Izaguirre) was born on November 13, 1972 in Bermeo, Spain. He has worked as a Painter, Sculptor, Musician, Photographer and Home Film Editor. Diax will be one of the most influential Australian artist of the 21st century and the creator of the Australiana 21 style. Even Diax's earliest drawings in 1981, executed when he was about nine years old, showed exceptional talent. He attended Saint John's Catholic school where he completed classes in the Arts in drawing and sculpture. Throughout his childhood attended private art lessons with the Bermeo, Batxoki Arts School. When he and his wife moved to Sydney, Australia 1995, he discovered Traditional Aboriginal Art by many visits to his Aboriginal relatives, Sydney residents who introduced him to dot painting and the Aboriginal culture. His work in Traditional Aboriginal Art and his love for Abstract, Cubism and Expressionism, started to melt together. In the beginning, he used strong colors. His principal subjects were of lively scenes of popular, folklore Aboriginal scenery, Skyheroes, Australian Animal, and Bushrangers. Later in 2005, he moved to Warwick Q.L.D,Australia. His gloom lifted and he looked freshly at humanity with tenderness and admiration and adopted warmer colors and a more harmonious classical style. During this rose period, his favorites subjects were waterhole, dingo, Boomerang, Didgeridoo, Bushranger and The Australian Outback. In September 2006, he started private lessons at Mary's Australiana Style Art School at Warwick, Queensland. Between the years 2005 and 2006, he was influenced by the paintings of Pewrle, Picasso, Pop art and The Australiana style. Diax discovered that if he disregarded the conventional means used for creating and illusion of reality and combining the old with the new, he could represent things more realistically by conceptual procedures. Exhibitions: Dec. 2006 Gallery P.A.C, Vienna, Austria, group show Dec. 2006 Imaginatiff Citron II, Vienna, Austria, International, group show July 2005 Warwick, Australia (Queensland), group show June 2004 Penrith, Sydney, Australia, group show |