User:Ninathedentist/ÁLVARO TAMARIT

ÁLVARO TAMARIT (Álvaro López Tamarit, Javea, Alicante 1976) is a Spanish artist, sculptor and designer who uses almost exclusively recovered materials, mainly wood. His work aims to transmit an ecological message and warns of the dangers of climate change.

Biography
Álvaro Tamarit was born in 1976 and studied Fine Arts to Masters level at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia in Spain.

Awards
2008 Mention of Honour. International Design Competition MIMEC’08.

2008 1st Prize for Painting."Salvador Soria" Painting Contest, Benissa, Alicante.

2008 The Provincial Council of Alicante. Prize for the adquision of art.

2007 1st Prize for Sculpture. IX Art Competition Manolo Valdés. Altura Town Council, Castellón.

2006 1st Prize for Sculpture. XXXIII Bancaja Prize for Painting, Sculpture and Digital Art.

2002 IX Prize for Painting “Pastor Calpena”, Ayuntamiento de Aspe, Alicante.

1998 1st Prize, III National Competition for Young Painters, Universidad de Alicante.

Solo Exhibitions
2009 Bosque Reconstruido. Madrid.

2008 Buscant el bosc. Javea, Alicante.

2008 Reconstrucciones. CAM Bank, travelling exhibit.br /> 2008 Dichtheit und leeve. Köln. Alemania.

2007 Repoblaciones. Valencia.

2006 Deconstrucciones de madera. Centro 14, Alicante.

2006 Breve línea de la evolución de un planeta. Valencia.

2005 Buscando el bosque. Valencia.

2004 El viaje a través de mí. Contemporary Art Circuit.

2002 Imaginé... Javea, Alicante.

1998 Alta Bohemia. Elda, Alicante.

1998 Alta Suciedad. Javea, Alicante.

Group Exhibitions
2008 Bodegones repoblados, Madrid.

2007 Interiores, Madrid.

2007 Competetion for Plastic Art ’07. Provincial Council of Alicante.

2007 CIGE. China International Gallery Exhibition. Beijing, China.

2007 EAC’07. MUA. Museum of the University of Alicante. .

2005 Art collection of the Secretary for Culture 1995-2004.University of Alicante.

2001 Mirar i Veure I Photography Exhibition. Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Valencia.

2000 La Puerta de la Amistad. San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts. Habana, Cuba.