Jorge Artajo - biography, career, poetry
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Jorge Artajo Muruzabal (October 14, 1952 - ) was born in Sádaba, (Zaragoza), Spain. Painter, poet, draftsman, writer, performer and social activist. He currently lives in Madrid working as editor in chief at Canal + Spain TV channel.
Biography
His works and life have been deeply marked by the place where he was born. Sádaba (Zaragoza) is a little medieval Spanish village of narrow and dark streets with old stone houses deteriorated by dampness and hard winds, located in the middle of a dramatic plain dry land with no trees, but full of huge cereal fields broken here and there for some little characteristic hills of the nearby desert of Los Monegros. The harsh landscape and weather with heavy cold winters and extremely hot summers with its usual plague of flies, mosquitoes and horseflies, and also the ever present Catholic culture that ruled all social activities have made him a not beating around the bush person, but clear and direct, which sometimes make him to be not so much political correct in his work.
Graduate in Media Studies and Communications by the Complutense University (Universidad Complutense) in Madrid. He was arrested several times in 1970 and 1972 during Franco’s dictatorship (dictadura franquista) when demonstrating in several campaigns against political repression and for Amnesty and Freedom, and was confined from several months at the Carabanchel prison (cárcel de Carabanchel) in Madrid. There he met the Proceso 1001 ten: Ten labour unionist leaders who dared to confront the fascist regime asking for working class people rights: Pedro Santiesteban, Marcelino Camacho, Juan Muñiz Zapico “Juanín”, Fernando Soto, Nicolas Sartorius, Eduardo Saborido, Francisco G. Salve, Miguel Ángel Zamora, Francisco Acosta, Luis Fernández. All of them become his role models for life.
As a painter and draftsman he has a great diversity of themes and stiles: From naïve and colourful paintings full of joyful comic like characters that he used to display at galleries, bars, cafés, restaurants or clubs of social and humanitarian organizations or in children’s books, to very dark drawings here he shows his nightmares, fears, hopes and frustrations, usually published in journals, magazines or in adult books or artist books.
Sex and sexuality is a constant in his work that has been influenced by a wide range of artistic trends and artists or intellectuals so mixed as Georges Bataille or Yoko Ono; Louisa May Alcottt or Antonin Artaud; Jean Michel Basquiat or Elisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun; Marosa di Giorgio or Walt Whitman; Allan Hollinghurst or Jane Austen.; Nazario or Little Lulu comics.
Poems
Van Gogh’s Ear (France/USA) 2005
Mein heimliches Auge (Germany) 2006
Fósforo (Spain) 2004 digital magazine directed by Gonzalo Escarpa
Flies and Flights (Finland) 2001. Edited by Sari Gurney to AIU: A Yoko Ono Box
Medios Revueltos (Spain) 1980, directed by Felipe Hernández Cava
Writings on the Wall For the RikArt artist books collection at the Rikhardinkatu Library in Helsinki (Finland) 2004
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