September 21st, 2015
An art exhibit entitled ‘Heimat in Himmel ‘ by the Spanish artist Fernando de la Cueva will open at the Berlin Offices of NEXT ESTATE on Friday the 23rd October at 1900hrs. [ Until June 2016 ]It is presented by NEXT ESTATE in cooperation with the IB ISABEL BILBAO Galerie.
NEXT ESTATE, Kollwitzstraße 38, 10405 Berlin,
Next Estate GmbH is a Berlin based Real Estate company that focuses on the local Berlin real estate requirements of clients in Germany and worldwide.
The political changes in Germany after 1989 found their expression in the fall of the Berlin Wall and have since then turned Berlin into attractive city for international visual artists. They have been attracted to the Berlin urban and architectural dynamic and – by comparison to London and Paris – cheap rents. Most Galleries can be found in the local Berlin districts of Prenzlauer Berg, Mitte and Freidrichshain, all areas where NEXT ESTATE is active.
Next Estate serves both the local German market and International clientele and our staff speak and deal with our clients in German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
This is why the idea of the exhibit of ‘Heimat in Himmel’ about aviation, which brings people from all over the world together, appealed immediately to us!
“The lure of flying is the lure of beauty” This is a maxima from Amelia Earhart, whose love for flying precipitated her end in 1937 in the Pacific Ocean, while trying to complete her world tour in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra. This is also one of the themes reflected on the aeronautical paintings of Fernando de la Cueva that IB ISABEL BILBAO Galerie & Art Projects will present from October 23rd,2015, in collaboration with Next Estate, in Kollwitzstrasse 38 in Berlin.
About the artist –
“The artist Fernando de la Cueva, was born in Madrid in 1953, and has been interested in aviation his whole life. He is a sailplane and private pilot and cooperates with Madrid based Infante de Orleans Foundation, that is dedicated to preserving and flying old airplanes in Spain.
He stood out in drawing classes from his childhood, and in 1971 he graduated from Needham High School, Massachusetts, He had been drawing and painting since he can recall, but his true art vocation surfaced about twenty years ago, and ever since, he has been painting only aeronautical themes.
He has done covers and illustrations for books and specialised magazines. He has pioneered in Spain the painting of Spanish Civil War scenes that have led to limited edition prints signed by prominent pilots from both sides of the conflict. He has held many one-man exhibitions devoted exclusively to Aviation, winning both 1st and 2nd prices at the Spanish Air Force Art Contest, and took Best of Show at the 2004 Art Contest in the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida, USA.
He paints mainly in acrylics and his work can be found in public and private collections in Europe and the U.S.A. He is an American Society of Aviation Artists (ASAA) Artist Fellow, being the only Spaniard up to date to have achieved that honor. His aim is to promote aviation art, making his paintings attractive to people who are not familiar with this topic. In order to achieve this, he is composing part of his latest works with more or less classical renditions of aeronautical subjects along with textures and less orthodox light and color techniques in extreme landscape and diptych formats.
His works can be found in private collections of Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, Venezuela and the U.S.A., and also in official centers, Aerospace companies and Aeronautical Museums.”
You can visit his website directly at – http://www.fernandodelacueva.com/
He is also popular in Switzerland which you can see here – http://www.lw.admin.ch/internet/luftwaffe/de/home/dokumentation/culture/acryl.html
The IB ISABEL BILBAO Galerie has their website at –http://www.isabelbilbao.com/