{"id":247,"date":"2015-05-25T08:59:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T08:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2015-05-25T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T09:00:42","slug":"biography-in-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/?page_id=247","title":{"rendered":"Biography in English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Profile of the artist<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u00f1aki Villanueva Ortega was born in Pamplona in June 1981. His\u00a0relationship with the woodcarving started in a self-taught way when he\u00a0was only 13.
\nHe studied Sculpture in the Art school of Pamplona from 2004 to 2006 and\u00a0did an intership in Koke Ardaiz\u2019s workshop. In 2007 he traveled to\u00a0Florence (Italy) to work in Bartolozzi e Maioli\u2019s workshop thanks to\u00a0the Leonardo scolarship that he got offered. In 2008 he became a\u00a0profesional sculptor when the Berriozar Council asked him to do a\u00a0monolith to commemorate the thousand years of its History.<\/p>\n

A part from this, he also does restoring as a stonecutter. At the end of\u00a02013 he set his workshop ready to give lectures.\u00a0Even though his workshop is located in Aristegui he has always felt from\u00a0Berriozar.<\/p>\n

In addition to working the Wood he also works stone, iron and molds. To\u00a0end with, we should add that he is also the lyricist and Singer of the\u00a0band \u00abKhous\u00bb from Berriozar.<\/p>\n

\"LANAKI\u00f1aki Villanueva, The instinct of life<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u00f1aki\u2019s work has its own life. So much so well, that when the artist\u00a0is infront of a tree, of which our inexperienced eyes can just see\u00a0branches, roots, ridges and grooves, he can see the life beating inside\u00a0of it. It\u2019s maybe because of the effect of his time in Italy that\u00a0I\u00f1aki remembers Miguel \u00c1ngel, and knows that he has to make that life\u00a0sprout out, cull it out of the materialand show it to us, because other\u00a0way we wouldn\u2019t be able to appreciate it.<\/p>\n

His sculptures have the key to create a speech, making them\u00a0interconected from just an independent pieces, as it happens to the grat\u00a0atist\u00b4s work. The organic shapes, the predominant human image, the\u00a0taste for natural materials like stone and wood or the way of working\u00a0with some expressiveness are the own characteristics of the artist.<\/p>\n

However, all these characteristics could be recapitulated in the\u00a0following idea:<\/p>\n

The instict of life. When I\u00f1aki Works either the Wood or the stone\u00a0these come alive in its sculptures, in the same way as in Miguel\u00a0Angel\u2019s work, Adan comes alive by the touch, by the contac. The\u00a0artist, turned into life creator, blows breath to the material, he makes\u00a0it come alive again, transforming the clay Golen into a living being.<\/p>\n

Not in vain, as Fcillon used to say, the hand transform the Atr, gides\u00a0it from its contemplative passivity to an active feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Profile of the artist I\u00f1aki Villanueva Ortega was born in Pamplona in June 1981. His\u00a0relationship with the woodcarving started in a self-taught way when he\u00a0was only 13. He studied Sculpture in the Art school of Pamplona from 2004 to 2006 and\u00a0did an intership in Koke Ardaiz\u2019s workshop. In 2007 he traveled to\u00a0Florence (Italy) to work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villanuevartea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}