Evru
Spain Barcelona
Spain, Barcelona
EVRU, formerly Zush, born Alberto Porta (Barcelona, 1946)
Evru took his name Zush in 1968 when he decided to break with the quotidian realm, creating a parallel world called Evrugo Mental State, for which he has invented his own currency, flag, alphabet, and so on. Zush operated under this identity until 2001, year when he leaves his first adapted personality and took a new name, Evru.
His work is an attempt to show the global creation of a physical environment and the adoption of this as a work of art.
A part from his obssesive drawings and handmade books, he is also an early pioneer artist in the use of technology applied to plastic creation and computer art since the second half of the nineteen eightieth.
He received fellowship from William Fulbright and Fundacion March (Madrid) in 1975 in order to study at MIT (Institute of Technology), Massachusetts, USA, as well as a scholership holder of DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin (1982-83).
In 1995 he publishes his first web site in the online magazine [connect-arte.com] and in 1996, [evru.org]. In 1995 he started his first CD-ROM [Psycho-Manual-Digital] which in turn takes account of the artists philosophy: a thinking being (psycho), who avails himself not only of all the possibilities offered by his surroundings and his own body to turn these ideas into images (manual), but also of the various means provided by technology (digital). For this project he was awarded by LAUS Trophy as the best Art CD-Rom of the year, ADI-FAD in 1999 (Barcelona).
Since 1994 he has directed diverse work shops over the theme of 'computer assisted art' as well as on 'art of the net: web.art / net.art'.
His work is present in many public and private collections such as MoMA and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou; MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Fondatión Cartier (Paris); MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and IVAM Instituto de Arte Moderno de Valencia (Spain), among many others.
Evru took his name Zush in 1968 when he decided to break with the quotidian realm, creating a parallel world called Evrugo Mental State, for which he has invented his own currency, flag, alphabet, and so on. Zush operated under this identity until 2001, year when he leaves his first adapted personality and took a new name, Evru.
His work is an attempt to show the global creation of a physical environment and the adoption of this as a work of art.
A part from his obssesive drawings and handmade books, he is also an early pioneer artist in the use of technology applied to plastic creation and computer art since the second half of the nineteen eightieth.
He received fellowship from William Fulbright and Fundacion March (Madrid) in 1975 in order to study at MIT (Institute of Technology), Massachusetts, USA, as well as a scholership holder of DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin (1982-83).
In 1995 he publishes his first web site in the online magazine [connect-arte.com] and in 1996, [evru.org]. In 1995 he started his first CD-ROM [Psycho-Manual-Digital] which in turn takes account of the artists philosophy: a thinking being (psycho), who avails himself not only of all the possibilities offered by his surroundings and his own body to turn these ideas into images (manual), but also of the various means provided by technology (digital). For this project he was awarded by LAUS Trophy as the best Art CD-Rom of the year, ADI-FAD in 1999 (Barcelona).
Since 1994 he has directed diverse work shops over the theme of 'computer assisted art' as well as on 'art of the net: web.art / net.art'.
His work is present in many public and private collections such as MoMA and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou; MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Fondatión Cartier (Paris); MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and IVAM Instituto de Arte Moderno de Valencia (Spain), among many others.
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Thursday, 30 November 2006
