Felipe Cardeña

Felipe Cardeña was born in Balaguer (Spain) in 1979.This artist, whose residency is the world, lived in Madrid, Barcelona, Athens, Rome, Milan, Tirana, Sofia and in many other cities and towns around Europe (but not only).Cardeña has been exhibiting his paintings in galleries around the world; either as an invited artist, or as a ‘clandestine’: Espacio Loco in Madrid, PAC in Milan, Feng-Shui Museum in Shanghay. Through his extraordinary shows and performances he has often interrupted regular art events.In Italy, for example, in 2005, Felipe Cardena participated in the art exhibit Miracolo a Milano (A Miracle in Milan), which took place at Palazzo della Ragione in Milan, by acting as the statue of St John the Headless. He stood without a single movement for six hours. In 2007, he put the pirates flag right at the entrance of the exhibit Sweet Art Street Art as the symbol of street artists who fought and won over the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, in Milan. Eventually, his art work was stolen by one of the visitors.In the same year, at the exhibit La nuova figurazione Italiana – to be continued… (New Italian Figurative Painting – To Be Continued...) he presented an installation titled Via delle Rimembranze (Memory Street)Since the end of 2007 he started the project "Power Flower".In 2008 Felipe Cardena prepared a gigantic panel from the series “Power Flower” to be shown at the street art exhibit Scala Mercalli, dedicated to the Dalai Lama. Free Tibet Free Flower was written on the panel in capital letters.His most recent art work is based on the idea of “surprise” and “astonishment”: large – sometimes monumental – colorful flower compositions, eccentric collages, unusual shapes, strongly exaggerated images underlining the themes of religion and cultural diversity, a mixture of human and natural forms.