Biography
Antonio Navas Martín was born in 1991 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria island, and spent his childhood between the ocean and the mountains. However, he eventually moved to Valladolid, in the Iberian Peninsula. As a kid, he was fascinated by everything visual and his memories filled with color soaked ha...
Antonio Navas Martín was born in 1991 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria island, and spent his childhood between the ocean and the mountains. However, he eventually moved to Valladolid, in the Iberian Peninsula. As a kid, he was fascinated by everything visual and his memories filled with color soaked hands, and visits to exhibitions.The thrill of painting and the experience with pigments and visual culture grew bigger during his teenage years, by delving into graffiti, and occasionally into street art.
In 2009, he decides to start studying arts and crafts in the “Escuela de artes plásticas y diseño”, Valladolid. After that in 2014, he enrolled the University of Salamanca to achieve a degree in Fine Arts. Since then, his interest for history of art and diverse techniques and materials has never ceased.
Although 2012 is the year of his first dated exhibition, it is while studying Fine Arts when he will be dazzled by currents such as matter painting, or abstract expressionism, shifting his work almost completely by then. Jean Dubuffet’s, Mark Rothko’s, Clyfford Still’s or Franz Kline’s artwork would be used as an inspiration for him.
More involved in the creation, and encouraged to exteriorize his first artwork, it was at that moment he perceived them as more mature. As a result, he then formed “Kaikoo” in 2015 along with some other artists, photographers and multidisciplinary creators he had met in his academic surroundings. Later that year, he establishes “Espacio Cero” group to which he still belongs at present.
From then on, he has exhibited in Europe on numerous occasions, both solo and collective expos: Milan, London, Vienna, Munich, Luxembourg or Paris amongst others, are some international examples, and in Spain, cities as: Barcelona, Madrid, La Rioja, San Sebastián, Valladolid, and his birthplace, have held his exhibitions as well.
