Lot 15 - Grip Face - Disfraz de Salida

Acrylic, pencil, and oil stick on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Rosie Penny

About

With a vocation as an artist-engineer and a certain ease in the movement of the body through marginal spaces, Grip Face builds bridges between contexts, elements, techniques, extensions, measures, and people. Liquid like a cat, his proposal adapts to the container that holds it; with a language as personal as it is collective, seeking to be part of and reflect the zeitgeist, Oliver’s work offers us a playful space filled with layers where we can dissect the concerns of an impatient generation, hungry for information—whether or not its truth is decisive—and for which the landscape of the Internet seems to be the best setting for the proper learning of savoir-faire.

Whether due to the perpetual feeling of dislocation that has accompanied him since childhood, or the anxiety inevitably triggered by the prospect of a society inexorably heading towards technological massification, communication through devices, and virtual relationships, Grip Face is hindered by boundaries. He first erased the line between public and private—moving from painting on the streets to exhibiting his pieces in white cubes—and later, he redefines it simply by changing the order: from the workshop-refuge, with its corresponding drawings, plans, and material studies, to the Gran Vía.

Duality saturates the materialization of his consciousness; he oscillates between abstraction and figuration, the digital and the analog, the fear that paralyzes and the fear that makes you run with an impossible agility and strength. This drive has led him to move his work around the globe (from a residency at the Museums Quartier in Vienna to fairs in Madrid and Mexico or exhibitions in Seoul and Paris), expanding the boundaries of an evolutionary and infinite exploration that is part of the same learning process of the artist who creates them. Whether as an artist or a curator—another of his facets—for David Oliver, meaning lies in continuity and expansion, in not being able to see the end, in living the artistic expression as we live in the world, transitorily and in an uncertain present.

Solo Exhibitions

2025 - Solo Show - Joan Miro foundation, Mallorca, Spain

2025 - "too much noise to dream among clouds" - Parco museum, Tokyo, Japan

2024 - “Sashimi consciente en la cabaña de Cristal” La Bibi Gallery. Palma , Mallorca

2024 - “Lluna rosa, oneiric walker” Gana gallery. Seoul, South Korea

2023 - “Find an offline shelter” Grip face & Miju lee . La bibi Gallery & Coleccion solo.
Paris, Francia

2021 - Saudade 01/158, Sc gallery, Bilbao.

2020 - “Máscaras de una generación millennial” Cerquone Gallery, Madrid

2018 - “Precollapse” Pep Llabrés Gallery. Palma. Majorca

2017 -’Exported items’ Jan Arnold Gallery, Vienna. Austria

2016 - “Black faces” Sc Gallery, Bilbao. Basque Country

2015 - Doors without destination, CCA Andratx. Majorca

2011 - “Routes without destination”, I/A Gallery, Palma. Majorca

Group Exhibitions

2024 - “Handle with Care”. Espacio Solo Museum, Madrid.

2024 - Blasting of the gully, Veduyn gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2023 - MFC , Cerquone Gallery, Miami, Usa

2023 - “Memoràndum del quotidià”, Misericordia Art Center, Palma, Mallorca

2023 - Protection no longer assured, Espacio Solo Museum, Madrid

2023 - New origins, curated by Andrea Festa Gallery, Roma

2022- “Erretratu” Group show SC gallery, Bilbao, Spain

2022 - “Selfie”, Curated by Ester Almeda, Moisés Pérez de Albéniz Gallery, Madrid

2022 - Playground. Breach Miami gallery, Miami USA

202 - Brick Games., curated by Francesco Giaveri. L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca

2022 - Relaciones públicas, curated by Jordi Pallarès, Cerquone Gallery, Caracas

2022- “Dream paper “Group show, Slika Gallery, Lyon, France

2022 - “UGLY” group show. YIRIARTS gallery Taipei, Taiwan

2021 - “FAMILIA” group show, Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong

2021 - “FRESH” group show, Padre Gallery, New york

2021 - “Nice Guys Live Forecer”, curated by Moosey projects. Hoxton arches, London

2021 - FLYSCH - group show. Sc Gallery, Bilbao

2020 - It’s a Match, group exhibition. HFA space. Vienna, Austria

2020 - “QUARANTINE” group exhibition. Sc Gallery. Bilbao, Biscay

2019 - “Summer show” group exhibition. Lundgren Gallery. Palma, Mallorca

2019 - “Art in my mouth: Manila” group exhibition curated by Moosey art project
Secret F. Gallery. Manila, Philippines

2018 - “Resistance X” group exhibition 10th anniversary SC Gallery. Bilbao

2018 - “I BAG YOU” collective exhibition curated by Ida-Marie Corell at Kunstraumretz Art Center. Retz, Austria

2019 - “Art in my mouth: Manila” group exhibition curated by Moosey art project.
Secret F. Gallery. Manila, Philippines

2018 - “Resistance X” group exhibition 10th anniversary SC Gallery. Bilbao

2018 - “I BAG YOU” collective exhibition curated by Ida-Marie Corell at Kunstraumretz Art Center. Retz, Austria

2017 - “Present immediat” curated by Pilar Rubí, Sa Nostra Cultural Centre, Palma. Mallorca

2017 - Streetartpassage/ Open archive, Jan Arnold Gallery. Vienna, Austria

2016 - “We are antonyms” Fabra i Coats. Barcelona. Catalonia

2016 - Consell de Mallorca Exhibition. N/P Misericordia art center. Palma. Mallorca
2015 - “Final” curated by Jordi Pallarès, Sc Gallery bilbao. Biscay

2015 - “Graphic Correspondences”, Feira Plana, Sao Paulo. Brazil

2015 - “Intervened Archive”, curated by Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta. Saltillo Contemporary Art Festival, Mexico

2015 - “Pass this on” curated by Jordi Pallarès. Taca space, Palma. Majorca

2014 - Miniprint fair, Hyvinkää Art Museum. Hyvinkää. Finland

2014 - Opening Print workers, Printworkes gallery. Barcelona. Catalonia

2013 - SR/ OFF, C.A.C. Ses voltes with the collaboration of the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation. Curated by Grip Face & Jordi Pallarès. Palm. Mallorca

2013 - “Subversive routes II”, curated by Grip Face. Ikara Gallery. Barcelona. Catalonia

2013 - 40putes. 1 any de putes i mamades. Pelaires Gallery. Palm. Majorca

2012 - The Invisibles, curated by Jordi Pallarès. Centro Son tugores. Alaró. Majorca

2012 - “Tripode”, curated by Grip Face. I/A Gallery. Palma. Majorca

2012 - “Subversive ways”, curated by Grip Face. Sa Possessió. Palma. Majorca

Awards

2024 - 1 Prize Neo2 awards art section.

2017 - 1 Prize International Contest of contemporary painting Sant Marçal (Marratxi). Majorca

2016 - Finalist in the public competition “REHABILITART” / Mural Gestos post-catarsis. Palma City Council. Majorca

2014 - Selected competition Miniprint Finland show. Hyvinkää Museum. Finland

Gallery Representations

Galería MPA, Madrid, Spain
Yiri arts, taiwan

Public Collections

COLECCION SOLO MUSEUM

M.E.R FOUNDATION

SANTILLANA FOUNDATION

MELIÁ COLLECTION

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

Here’s the refined, intellectual version of the text translated into English:

The works form a series that explores the concept of the deconstructed avatar, offering a generational reflection on the threshold that both separates and connects the analog and digital realms. It is a generation in constant transition, one that has grown up immersed in a context shaped by recurrent economic crises and a profound disillusionment with the prospect of an uncertain future.