PAKO CAMPO
“Art doesn’t follow the water stream, but fight against it”
Pako Campo is an artist from Cenicero (La Rioja), Spain. He is one of the most acclaimed artists of his region. La Rioja is a beautiful, well-known land in the north of Spain. It is famous because of wine, art, and for being the place where the Spanish language was born.
From school, he highlighted winning several drawing competitions, so he began to receive painting lessons at 8 years old by the hyperrealist painter Rafael Jiménez.
He also received classes at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca, although he personally considers himself a self-taught professional.
Pako Campo participated in his first collective exhibition of Fine Arts in 1990, when he was only nine years old. Since then, he has participated in more than 40 exhibitions of Fine Arts.
In addition, in the last two years, he has participated in five exhibitions in Madrid and three in New York.
Pako has received several awards, like the Arts Award of the Riojan Center of Madrid (Spain) or the Raffaello Art Prize in Bologna (Italy).
His style can be defined as colorful, energetic, and expressively daring. His subject matters are cities or urban landscapes. He likes to take saturated and contaminated cities, places that have become anodyne and overcrowded over the years, to embellish them with vivid colors.
Color is used here as a symbol of beauty and diversity, in opposition to the functionality and consistency of today’s big cities.
In the last ten years, he has expanded his skills in digital arts, with a specialization in photo compositions, surrealist photography, and conceptual portraits. Thanks to those skills, he has enjoyed being in charge of graphic art for many shows, films, and brands.
His visual art seeks to explore the range of feelings that all human beings handle. He is responsible for translating intangible concepts into visual elements in the search for connection and direct interaction with the viewer.
Pako Campo is currently working in the diffusion of his art all over the world, and his works can be found in several art collections and museums in Europe, America, and Asia.
Campo enjoys professional exchange or collaboration with any kind of artist or art world professional. He is always delighted to start new projects that mutually enrich their artistic abilities.