Evita Andújar Spanish, b. 1974

Evita Andújar is a Spanish painter with an academic background, born in Écija (Seville) in 1974. For many years she has lived in Rome, where, nourished by the suggestions of seventeenth-century baroque painting, she researches the potential of figurative art beyond skilful technique, reaching a personal style of enveloping and aesthetic lyricism. The identity of the female figures painted by Andújar dissolves into a liquid doubleness that hides their face, making them universal entities, like Leopardi's Silvia, who ceases to be Teresa Fattorini, also alluding to the feminine essence in a broad sense, in relation to fleeting nature of life. If the German philosopher Thomas Macho calls twentieth-century society facial society - that is, a reality determined by the mass media where the face is omnipresent but produces nothing other than new and glacial masks, like a senseless carnival in Ensor, hiding the face for Andújar it can be a refuge, in the name of the inscrutability of the dream dimension in Magritte.
After having trained by studying painting and restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Seville, in 2000 she came to Italy as a scholarship holder at the Spanish Academy in Rome. Here she settled and began working in the restoration of works of art. In the following years you became the technical contact for important projects such as, for example, the Scala Regia del Vignola in Caprarola. Direct contact with the frescoes is fundamental for the subsequent development of her painting technique. She participates in exhibitions in Italy, Spain, England, France, Slovenia, Austria, Greece, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, exhibiting with established contemporary artists and young emerging artists. We remember her solo shows at the Casa di Rigoletto in Mantua, Palazzo Nicolaci in Noto and the Cavoti Civic Museum of Galatina in Lecce. And also the group exhibitions at Palazzo Reale and at the Museo della Permanente in Milan, at the Arsenale in Venice, at the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Bellomo in Syracuse, at the Civic Museum of Palazzo della Penna in Perugia, at the Ligabue Foundation in Gualtieri, at the Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro and in the Chamber of Deputies in Rome.
She wins various prizes and recognitions, including A mosaic for Tornareccio, the Adrenalina Prize and the Casciaro Prize. You have won special prizes such as the Arteam Cup, the Sulmona Prize and the Lynx Prize. She is a finalist for the Arte Laguna Prize, EneganArt and the Arte Mondadori Prize. In 2016 she was chosen as an artist in the Bocs Art-Residenze Artistiche residency project in Cosenza and in 2017 she won the Artist Residency Award at the Marchionni Prize in Villacidro in the Middle Campidano. In the same year she in Jordan was invited to the Ayla International Art Symposium III residency in Aqaba and in 2019 to the Cab International Art Symposium 5 in Amman. Her works can be found in important public and private collections.