Alejandro Guijarro (born 1979) is a Spanish contemporary artist who currently works between London and Madrid.
Early life
Guijarro was born in Madrid, where he began his artistic education at the Escuela de Arte N10, completing a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design in 2004. He then moved to London to attend the Royal College of Art, where he graduated from the MFA Photography programme in 2010.[1]
Major works
His first major series, Momentum, received international critical acclaim, and can be found in the permanent collections of Saatchi Gallery, London,[2] the Frank Suss Collection, New York City/London,[3] and the Goetz Collection, Germany.[citation needed] Over the course of three years, between 2012 and 2015, Guijarro travelled to various quantum mechanics institutions around the world – from Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom, to CERN in Switzerland, and MIT and UC Berkeley in the United States[4][5] – photographing the blackboards as he found them, and reproducing them at 1:1 scale.[6][7][8]
Momentum Series. Southport, UK: Café Royal, 2016. With a text by Francis Hodgson. Edition of 200 copies.
Publications with contributions by Guijarro
Picking Up, Bouncing Back. By Alexander Garcia Düttman, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Olivier Richon. Edited by Rut Blees Luxemburg. London, Royal College of Art, 2010. ISBN978-1907342073.
