My Lifestyle en Readytex Art Gallery: interview met beeldend kunstenaar Xavier Robles de Medina

In het televisieprogramma My lifestyle zijn, in een rubriek die op 1 april 2019 van start ging, Kunst en Kunstenaars in de schijnwerpers gezet. My lifestyle’s Babita Debi ging in gesprek met verschillende kunstenaars in hun ateliers en in Readytex Art Gallery. Tevens belichtte zij samen met de kunstenaars de kunstwerken die zij vervaardigd hebben. Readytex Art Gallery is de sponsor van de rubriek Beeldende Kunst. In dit filmpje een gesprek met Xavier Robles de Medina Xavier Robles de Medina received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Painting as well as in Animation from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia, USA, in 2012. He then moved to New York to work as an intern in several art studios. In 2015 he was the youngest nominee for the Prix de Rome and he also completed artist-in-residence programs at ‘WOW International’ in Amsterdam and through his affiliation with Catinca Tabacaru Gallery in New York, the ‘CTG: Zimbabwe residency’. The artist says that growing up with a beautician and a dentist as parents and an artist grandparent, presented him with concepts of aesthetics at an early age. Xavier: “My work starts where contemporary attitudes intersect Painting’s immense historical timeline. I examine a personal set of images to aid in transmitting my own narrative, simultaneously satisfying an affinity for delicate craftsmanship.” His tools range from (oil) brushes, graphite pencils, ink pens, and dental scalpels. The artist works in various media, but his latest works are intricate, modestly sized, ink and graphite works on paper, including portraits. Xavier exhibits internationally regularly, and in 2017 he started his Masters in Fine Art program at Goldsmiths in London. He will graduate from this institute in 2019 and his graduation exhibition is scheduled for July.