Biography

Denis Granizo, who calls himself “D’Granizo”,  is a young painter from Nicaragua, Central America, who at age 24 is working on his own style in Arts especially in the use of collage using combinations of colors, shapes, objects and textures. D ‘Granizo is finding his style, leaving behind the conventional, such as scholastic assignments to conversion and evolution of a painting with his own unique stamp highlighting their success in the world of the arts. The artist’s concept is fresh and innovative, thanks to the integration of various doses of abstractions and combinations of colors and shades, exorbitant and at the same time captivating.

His biggest influence and mostly what inspires artists is Mark Rothko, the painter who has been associated with the abstract expressionist movement, who just gave birth to this technique as an autodidact.But the beginning of D’ Granizo as an artist was born as a curiosity that we all have from childhood. As a boy he developed skills for Arts evidential, but it was not until age 13 that concerns were increased, leaning drawing and graphic representation through portraits, which copied the splendid faces of international journal models, being thus the first step in the art world.

Between 2002 and 2005, he continued to paint his self-taught his, especially experimenting on their own, while continuing to work on portraits, while the representation of the natural state of objects and artifacts around him, increasingly refined triggering that skills and skills in the subject flowed faster.Between 2006 and 2008 begins to join the Group of Art University where he studied and graduated in 2011, his BA in International Relations.

In 2009, after several attempts and a decision, he was given the opportunity to join the National School of Plastic Arts “Rodrigo Peñalba”, when he was 18, which. This full advantage as this opportunity allowed him to study for five years. Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Graphic Mosaic are cornerstones of his artistic development.In 2012, he graduated from the National School and began to participate in various contests and competitions for painting. He also has several workshops, conservatories and focus groups on contemporary art, which has been moving toward an aesthetic, reflection and research that has been nourishing and increasingly nourishing.

Currently, he is doing different experiments and sketches on the mixture, called MIXED, literally Granizo latter works are quite influenced by closely informality, which is denoted by the freedom of the artist, by mixing so many things at once, and employment and use of all around him. Furthermore, Granizo has a short-term project displaying emergency and representative significance of his ideas regarding the environment, overcoming an upper layer. Therefore, creation and imagination continue to leave ingenuity and creativity and give more openness to this artist.

 

Artistic Curriculum

EDUCATION

Rodrigo Peñalba National School of Arts, Managua-Artistic painter 2008 – 2012 

International Relations and Foreign Trade- UNICA, Managua – Bachelor of International Relations and Foreign Trade 2007-2011

LANGUAGES

Spanish

English

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Talleres de Arte y Cultura Nicaragua- Masatepe September 2020 – ongoing 

CAREER

January 2022 – Mural creation laboratory with focus on cultural rights CCENicaragua

June 2021 – III Edition of CreArte para Recrearte – INCHnica

May 2021 – Online Workshop ACERCA – digital marketing for cultural industries CCENicaragua/Beatriz Ortega

February 2021 – Painting Contest Nicaragua Proud of its Culture and Traditions 2020 Second Place Award / Banco Central de Nicaragua

October 2020 – Collective exhibition of graduates Escuela Nacional de Artes Rodrigo Peñalba

September 2020 – Start of personal and community project in Masatepe – Talleres de Arte y Cultura Nicaragua

June 2012 – National Collective Muralism Contest Let’s Turn the Page – Action against Hunger Organization

April 2012 – TACON (Contemporary Art Workshops – Space for reflection Espira la espora)

2012 – Collective Art Exhibition / Active student – Rodrigo Peñalba National School of Arts

April 2011 – Individual exhibition – Internal Looks at UNICA (Catholic University Redemptoris Mater)

2010 – Participation in monuments restoration and national heritage program with architect Federico Matus

2010 – Mosaic workshop with Masters Jean Carlo Splendiani and Mauricio Governatori

2010 – Mural Workshop with Fresco Technician – Harmony for Peace Mural

2008 – 2012 – Specialization in Painting – Rodrigo Peñalba National School of Arts