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CURRICULUM VITAE (SUMMARY)

Fernando Galarza Navarro

Studies

-     Ancient Drawing and Clothing School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades of Valencia, with Adolfo Ferrer and Genaro Lahuerta.

-     1st and 2nd Course School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades. Valencia.

-     Graduate in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of

    “S .Carlos”  Polytechnic University of Valencia.

-     Completion of Doctoral Courses .Polytechnic University of Valencia.

-     Pedagogical Aptitude Course. Institute of Educational Sciences. Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Teaching

      -     “Engraving Printing” Course. I.F.P. “Salvador Gadea”. Aldaya

           (Valencia).                 

• Coordinator and Professor of the I International Course on Plastic Arts “Villa de Buñol” U.I.M.P. (Menéndez y Pelayo International University) Directed by Antonio López. Valencia
• Coordinator and Professor of the 1st International Course on Plastic Arts “Villa de Buñol” U.I.M.P. (Menéndez y Pelayo International University) Directed by Antonio López. Valencia.
• Professor of the Drawing and Painting Workshop at Cefire (Teacher Training Center) Valencia

-    Professor of the Cefire Natural Landscape Workshop (Valencia)

     -      Professor of “Ornamental Composition and Ceramic Projects”School

  ... Ministry of Education.

Publications

     -     Visual and Plastic Arts, Resources in the Classroom .

     -     Creativity in School

     -     MASCOTAS (Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors), AEPE.-

Exhibitions and Awards.

-     Circle of Fine Arts. Valencia.

-     Honorable Mention IV National Painting Competition ”Savings Bank and Monte de Piedad”. Onteniente. (Valencia).

-     1st 1st Painting Biennial Award. Villa de Buñol (Valencia).

-     3rd Prize Autumn Painting Exhibition. Savings and Aid Bank of Sagunto. (Valencia)

     -     2nd Prize VIII Festival Painting Competition Moros Nuevos Group

          Villena (Alicante) 

-     Acquisition Award XXVI Painting Prize  Air Force. Ministry of Defense. Madrid

-     Exhibition at the Committee of the Regions. Brussels. (Belgium)

-     2nd Minglanilla Rapid Painting Prize. (Cuenca).

-     Acquisition Award of the Titan Industries for Quick Painting. Hellín. (Albacete).

-     4th Prize for Quick Painting. Valdeganga. (Albacete).

-     Acquisition Award XXVII Painting Award of the Air Force. Ministry of Defense. Madrid

-     1st Prize IX Painting Competition Festera Moros Nuevos. Villena Alicante.

-     1st 13th Villamayor de Santiago Painting Competition (Cuenca)

-     1st Prize, 2nd Edition, Emilio Nadal International Painting Prize. Alfara de Algimia. Valencia

-     1st Runner-up, Zumárraga Hospital Painting Competition. Guipuzcoa

-    2nd Prize, 20th International Painting Competition “Zurbarán” (City of Badalona Prize)  Cultural Association of Extremadura “Zurbarán”.

-    1st Prize XXIV International Painting Competition “Francisco”

     Carretero”, Casa Castilla- La Mancha (Cultural Association of Extremadura “Zurbarán”). of               bsp;               & nbsp;              &nbSP;

          Tomelloso), Madrid.

• 1st 7th Fidel Maria Puebla Painting Competition, Pelahustán (Toledo).-
• Finalist, 8th Realist Art Salon, AEPE (Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors).-
• Selected for Art Box 2024, Venice
• MARINA Exhibition, AEPE, Madrid.-
• Painting of the month, Cromática Museum, Toledo, Spain.-

Pictorial Work in:

-     Army Headquarters. BRIAT 26. La Coruña- Footwear Museum (Elda). Alicante

-     Fernando Picornell Museum (Hellin)  Albacete

-     Foundation of the Valencian Community. Committee of the Regions. Brussels (Belgium)

-     Headquarters of the Air Force. Madrid.

-     Air Force Museum. Zaragoza.

-     Higher School of Civil Engineering, Canals and Ports, Polytechnic University of Valencia. (Commemorative work of the 40th Anniversary).

-    Archbishop's Museum of Valencia. Portrait of Archbishop D. Carlos Osoro.

-     Hospital of Zumárraga. Guipuzcoa

      -    Army Collection (Ministry of Defense), Madrid

• Badalona City Hall (Barcelona)
• Casa Castilla-La Mancha (Tomelloso Cultural Association) Madrid

• City Hall, Pelahustán (Toledo).-

 

And in different Private Collections in: Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Japan and the United States.

 

In 2016, the Buñol City Council celebrated a Tribute Exhibition, with the publication of a Catalogue and the holding of an Anthology Exhibition.-

 

 

 

 

Figure painting, with thematic variations, but always within a line of figuration, Portraits and Figures, Urban and Rural Landscape, Seascapes, Vegetation, Still Lifes, but always seeking to say "something", often, "messages with social charge", trying to transmit feelings, sensations through the work, whatever the subject may be..........