
PAINTER
PAINTER
Painter´s Studio
Last Bar
Blue Bedroom
SPOOK
Lamppost
Berlin After
Still no Title…
Little Orphan
Watering the Garden
Apartments
Waiting for a letter
Talking with Her
3:48
Waiting for Him
13
FIVE
UNFINISHED
PLATONIC
LOVE
ENCOUNTERS
Jump!
Yellow Fighters
How much is it?
Little Summer
Small fire
Basement with maze
ATIS
Content.
JOE’S
Hotel, Room 312
Portrait of Pindar Van Arman
WE (First time I touch her hand).
Memories
HARD SHADOW
EXIT
LADDER
LEVEL 0
MOTEL, Room 3
Surprise!
EMMA and ME
Yellow Car
The Walk
Me, in yellow, with blue hair
Arriving to Nowhere
Dubai Bar
Portrait of Serena
She
Good Taste
Portrait of a Plastic Chair
SNOW
TURTLE
CORNER
Sunny Terrace
Fred McDowell
Fauna
CAUTION
MAKING OF: CAUTION
ARRIVING TO THE HOTEL AT 5 PM
MAKING OF: ARRIVING TO THE HOTEL AT 5 PM
DREAM WITH POET
FOUND
SUP
BAR
Broken Light
Look…
(Music: Liceoty)
Cardboard Box
Green Basement
Office
Still Waiting…
QUIN
JAZZ
The Fix
Moonlight
4 PM
Museum of Contemporary DIgital Art
First DIgital Painting (1987)
(printer in B/W)
Nacho Frades is a Spanish artist from Madrid born in 1967. His first contact with art was through books and works of art which filled his home and what struck him deeply was a portrait of El Greco painted on a piece of furniture. By the time he was 7 years old, Nacho had began to draw a lot and was constantly visiting museums around the city and subsequently joining the CBA, one of the most important private cultural centers in Europe, characterized by its open attitude towards outstanding innovative artistic trends. At the CBA, Nacho developed a very strong drawing practice and went on to do a Masters in the south of Spain with Antonio López. Following this, Nacho began working in the animated film industry where he developed a strong passion for digital painting, leading him to create two movies in the space of six years. Frades has been a full-time digital painter since 2005, creating works that inspires a futuristic subconscious.
His digital formation begins in 1987 with his first painting program, Deluxe Paint.
He has completed his studies of:
Interior designer (IADE University), Atrium Academy (Charcoal), Madrid Fine Arts Circle (Círculo de Bellas Artes). Arts & Cratfs Degree, Fine Arts Master (Complutense University), Particular teacher of Computer Graphics. Master with José Caballero. Master with Antonio López.
He has participated in the fairs, galleries and publications as CADAF Online 2020, Affordable Art, London, ADA Digital Art Fair, Spain. Perdurabo Art Gallery London. Vogue’s gallery July 2017, Vogue’s gallery August 2017,. Vogue’s gallery September 2017.
He has a Goya Prize of the Academy of Film and Television of Spain, among others.
In my work I describe worlds that only exists in my mind, I explore this worlds created by the inner mind, they are mainly landscapes of lonely places, where I am the only person in the work, the person that sees them, the observer.
I paint because I wanted to be a painter when I was 7 years old, when I saw a portrait of El Greco painted in a furniture in my house.
I work in traditional media and computers, creating acrylic paintings and computer generated images.
My work is about light, happiness, and memories. I use the shapes only because they are necessary to paint the light on them. What I transmit in my work are feelings rather than theories. I inspire only in myself, and although I have had strong influences, like Hopper or De Chirico, Hockney, etc. now I am free of this nuisances and paint what I want.
My work strikes in the soul rather than the mind.
For me art is everything I see, I don’t have to effort to see art in a little sparrow or a landscape.
I have had a very rich life, plenty of big moments and sad moments, and in all the cases I look for inspiration.
My day is to walk with my dogs, take 3 or 4 coffees, and start to work without a plan until night.