Arturo Javier Reyes Medina is a Spanish artist from Granada (Andalusia) who currently lives and works in Biel / Bienne (Switzerland). He is eclectic multi-disciplinary artist working simultaneously expressing himself in figurative and abstractive works, in different media: painting, sculpture, photography, digital and video art. After a brief stint in law school and the School of Design and Fashion Technology, he freed his passion for drawing and joined the Faculty of Fine Arts. He is a Bachelor of Fine Arts specialized in plastic arts: painting branch by the University of Granada. He continued his education in the Netherlands being the scholar of Erasmus Hogeschool Rotterdam Omstreken, Erasmus University Rotterdam (1995) and on the Faculty of Arts: Academie voor Beeldemde Vorming, Catholic University of Tilburg (1997).
Time spent in Netherlands had huge impact on his conception of art, adding the emphasis on conceptualization to his extensive technical training he received in Academia in Granada. He began his doctoral studies at the University of Granada and completed all the classes, but did not finished his doctoral thesis shocked by the death of his supervisor. He devoted himself to teaching as a professor of drawing in various secondary schools in Andalusia until in 2009, when he left teaching to devote himself exclusively to his artistic work.
His maverick personality has been reflected in the continuous experimentation, in the search of his own language, using all kinds of materials and techniques. This process has led to the abandonment of two dimensional canvases, and he started to create reliefs, to mix painting and collage, as well as, the digital image with paint. Lately he combines light, backlit digital works done in methacrylates with fluorescent colors; so that the work changes depending on weather is lit by natural light or with black and white.
His last solo exhibition (Berlin 2014) shows all these fields of work as well as simultaneous lines of research.
He continues his creative work in these areas, with increasing interest in social networks and how they brought democratization of artistic act and what does that mean in general for development of self-awareness and perception of others . Central themes in his work are the human figure as a metaphor of the universe, how color and
light change the sense of form; both formally and conceptually and how contrast material can create a harmonious message of various aspects of existence