“We stand before an artist with the kind of theoretical foundation which the experts demand as a means of an exit from our art into recognition by the environment.”
Carlos Jover, El Mundo 07/12/09
Carlos Jover, born Palma, 1959 is a highway engineer and editor. He has practiced literary and art criticism in various Balearic media. He is currently a columnist for El Mundo-El Día de Baleares and co-author of the comic “Trifasic.” He is editorial director of the publisher "Calima Ediciones.”
“Since his first solo exhibition at ABA Art in 2005 Harold Jimenez has developed an interesting evolution in his work, with its customary focus on his ironic, skilfull reflection on the role of images in contemporary society.
“At the beginning of the year the artist returns to demarcate his particular style. Color becomes a metaphor for Jimenez whereby he enchains a conceptual discourse concerning the thoughtless, unreflective happiness offered us by consumer society.”
Pau Waelder, Diari de Balears, 12/1/09
Pau Waelder, a graduate in Art History at the University of Barcelona, has a Masters Diploma in Advanced Studies in History Science and Art Theory at the
University of the Balearic Islands and is currently writing his PhD thesis in the field of art, science and technology. He has participated in international symposia such
as the First International Conference on Arthur Danto and the End of Art, (CENDEAC, Murcia, 2003) and Gaming Realities, (Athens: Fournos, 2006). He has written chapters for the books Gaming Realities: A challenge for
digital culture (Athens: Fournos, 2006) and Extending Experiences. Structure, Analysis and Design of Game Player
Experience (Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press, 2008), as well as the text Games of Pain: Pain as Haptic Stimulation in Computer-Game–Based Media Art, published in Leonardo Vol. 40, Issue 3 (MIT Press, 2007).
He has recently curated the exhibitions Metapaisatges (Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca/ Deichtorcenter Hamburg) and FLOW (CCA Andratx), and coordinated the conferences Cultura Digital and En lloc for the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation. He has
also participated as lecturer and tutor in several courses on art and new media at UOC (Open University of Catalonia) and
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain).
He has worked as site editor at Rhizome and Artnodes, and has written reviews on
contemporary and media art for several magazines and online resources such as Furtherfield, Magazine du CIAC, ETC Magazine, ASPECT and a::minima, as well as texts for exhibition catalogues and
monograph publications. He has also produced videos for Artnodes and Vernissage TV. Currently he is the editor of the
media art section in art.es contemporary art magazine.
“Harold Jiménez returns to ABA Art with a series of images that document the ‘visual pollution’ that we suffer and he pours out as if scanned in Eden.”
Diario de Mallorca, 27/11/09
no-byline columnist
“The exhibition ‘EDEN’ includes a series of seductive works. Jiménez winks at us and invites us to look more closely and in a second reading to discover their true essence.”
Alejandra Bordoy, publicity for EDEN exhibition, November 2009
Alejandra Bordoy, co-partner in ABA Art Gallery, earned her BA in Art History from the University of Salamanca; she began her career at the Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium and then moved to Paris where she trained as museologist in the Ecole du Louvre. She worked in the Louvre’s cultural department for two years, managing public and cultural relations. On arriving at Palma de Mallorca she joined the project to catalog the collection of the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation.
“This Latin American artist is obsessed with religious icons, poised between sacrilege and tacit worship. He has a particular way of working with color, using colors pures, absolutes.”
Joan Cabot. Revista D-P, 2008
Joan Cabot, critic and blogger, http://badtiming.net/
“Harold Jimenez plays with the intellect of the public who follow and applaud him for his strong critical sense; he refers us to a creation full of purely analytical nuances in his investigation and appeal to the collective memory. Both his work and his spirituality are charged with an inner exploration and a constant coming and going in creative play.”
Juan Carlos Dulzaides, October 2007
Catalog for the exhibition: Denominacion de origen: Colombia
Juan Carlos Dulzaides, BA in Art History and Doctorate in Curriculum Design, Universitad de Habana, began his career as conservator in the Museum of Modern Art, Habana, Cuba. He curated the exhibition: Denominacion de origen: Colombia in the Consell de Mallorca, October 2007.
“Note the boldness of Harold Jiménez Canizales. His work is a strong bet on an interesting conceptual basis and in a way that will undoubtedly be rejected by some. But art is not to please.”
Pau Waelder, Amb l’Art Magazine, 2006
“With the strategic capacity of a chameleon, he directs himself to various fronts: the concept of the ‘picture within a picture,’ the appropriation of image and the very role of ‘picture.’”
Carlos Jover/Asun Clar,
El Mundo, Monday, 2 January 2006
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