Pablo Milicua

In 1986, he moved to Vitoria. He worked as an art critic for the newspaper El Correo. By the late 1980s, his work had taken on an object-based and sculptural character, leading to his explorations in mosaic and accumulation. His work begins with the collection of meaningful materials, which are later rearranged into narrative structures using assemblage and collage techniques, in a process of destruction and creation, archaeology and alchemy. Monumental sculpture in Valderejo Natural Park (Álava). Joint installation with Koko Rico at Rekalde Hall in Bilbao. Paysage Caché installation at the Aphone Gallery in Geneva. He has received awards and grants, including the Sculpture Grant from the Spanish Academy in Rome for a project on symbolic archaeology (1994-95). Between 1997 and 1998, he directed the Casa Ubu exhibition hall in Vitoria. He curated the collective exhibition Mutants of Paradise for the Amárica Hall at the Museum of Fine Arts in the same city. He has created outdoor installations and works in abandoned buildings in Rome, Manchester, Arija, and Brooklyn. Intrógolo installation. Citadel Furnace, Pamplona. Solo show with Windsor Kulturgintza at Arco 02. He has participated in various group exhibitions focused on object art in Santiago, Zaragoza, and Barcelona. In 2003, he moved to Barcelona, where he connected with Fernando Latorre, regularly exhibiting at his gallery in Madrid over the following years. He created the installations Souvenirs d’un Touriste Paysagiste in Collioure and Un Largo Paseo in San Fernando de Henares. He organized the exhibition Tabanera, Milicua, García Barcos at the Antonio Pérez Foundation in Cuenca. He has written for catalogs of like-minded artists such as Tabanera or Carlos Pazos. A long series of collages created from black-and-white photographs, mainly sourced from 1950s and 1960s books, represent imaginary landscapes with an approach rooted in the Flemish pictorial tradition of masters like Bruegel, Bosch, or Patinir. These were showcased in exhibitions such as Imaginary Landscapes (Fernando Latorre, Madrid 2008), Project Room at the Lisbon Fair in 2009, Piranesi-Milicua at the Artur Ramón Gallery in Barcelona (2011), where Milicua's collages were juxtaposed with Giambattista Piranesi's engravings, YIA Art Fair in Paris (2013), among others. He has produced cabinet exhibitions with an installation and museum-like character, such as Amor al Arte (Galería Alegría, Barcelona 2011), The Ephemeral Museum of Bilbao (Windsor Kulturgintza 2011), The Reconstruction of Eden (Ava Art, Gijón 2013), or El Prodigi (Artur Ramón, Barcelona 2015). These exhibitions seek to recreate the curious fascination of the Wunderkammer, with a visionary idea of art as a realm of wonder and marvel. He currently lives in Madrid.