Félix de la Concha

Félix de la Concha (born 1962) is a painter. Born in León, Spain, he resides in Pittsburgh and Madrid.

In 1985 he was chosen to participate in the Primera Muestra de Arte Joven (Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid) where his be active was awarded. Since then he has had several shows, mainly in Europe and the United States, including one person exhibitions in the Columbus Museum of Art (1998), Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (1999), Hood Museum of Art (2009), the Frick Art & Historical Center (2004), Museo de Bellas Artes in Santander (1995), Museo del Chopo, México D.F. (1994), Centro Cultural La Recoleta in Buenos Aires (1993), and Centro Rómulo Gallegos in Caracas (1993).

His work One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning, a series that he painted every day during one year even if staying in Pittsburgh, is a long-lasting exhibit at the University of Pittsburgh's Alumni Hall. He has in addition to done new series of paintings in substitute places such as Rome (the city where he went in the same way as a scholarship settled by the Spanish Academy and where he lived from 1989 until 1994), Santander, Seville and Cairo.

He has focused on a particular format of portraiture. It can be seen in video the sitter talking, and the painting evolving from blank canvas to the unquestionably conclusion of the work. As painted neither from photographs neither from previous sketches, and usually like a single session (alla prima), eventual errors are keen to him. He introduces the term pictorial anacoluthon, going support to the Greek stock of the term anacoluthon (meaning inconclusive) and its rhetorical use: As taking into consideration spoken language, there will be mistakes, both in the portrait’s symmetry, and in its suitability of completeness. However, what may be considered, at first, a formal mistake may as a consequence be a form of expression. However he accomplishes accurate detail.

The first of this series was exhibited at the Museo Contemporáneo de Madrid in 2008.

51 portraits were exhibited at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, with the theme of Conflict and Reconciliation in 2009.

He has afterward immersed himself in communities, whether in New Hampshire and Vermont, Iowa or Pennsylvania, or in his original Spain. He has portrayed and interviewed Holocaust survivors going on for the world.

More recently, he has become enthusiastic in portraits considering music and synaesthesia, as his operate with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.

On Fallingwater En Perspectiva he fashionable the invitation to an lengthy residency considering unprecedented access to the building and grounds.