Joan Castejon (1945) - Mujeres - 2 works

Joan Castejón, born in Elche in 1945, appears on the Valencian painting scene in the mid-1960s, coinciding with the so-called social realism in art as a response to the repression of freedoms.

From the first oils and drawings to his current work, Castejón has developed his own iconography (a language to communicate things) and a very personal style. In his work, fundamentally figurative, there are surrealist, symbolic, and expressionist components.

The work of Joan Castejón has been exhibited in European and American institutions such as the IVAM, Valencia. University of the Sorbonne, Paris. Casa de Goya in Bordeaux. Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Chile. Centro Cultural Español, Montevideo, Uruguay. Writers and art critics such as Fernando Castro Florez and Mar Menendez have written about his work in the catalog “Joan Castejón y El Quijote,” Carlos Barral, Mario Vargas Llosa and JJ Armas Marcelo in the catalog for the exhibition “Castejón, Macondo” in ’73, José Manuel Caballero Bonald in the catalog “De lo real y lo imaginario” 2001, Juan Angel Blasco Carrascosa in the book “Dibuixos” of 1998, Vicent Andrés Estellés, in his poem “Pintor de cintures florides,” Aguilera Cerní in the catalog “Nueva figuración alicantina” of 1975. Romà de la Calle has carried out several extensive studies on his work throughout his career such as “La realidad de lo imaginario” from 1981. Recently Carlos Arenas, Manuel Vicent, and Tomás Llorens, among others, have also written about his work.