STATEMENT
For years, I’ve been building an archive of photographs of objects I find by chance, abandoned on the street. Each one tells a personal story that captures my attention.
Beyond narrative, I’m interested in the archeological remains from the contemporary era, as what we discard offers information that reflects our lifestyle and reveals the cultural processes underlying human behavior.
In consumerism, the act of buying is often more satisfying that using the acquired object. The object-cause of desire, a term coined in Lacanian psychoanalysis, refers to the elusive element that motivates our desire, but is never fully attainable.
Chance is a crucial factor in my daily practice, as in the “Objet trouvé”, with which Dadaists and Surrealists challenged ideas about the true nature of art in the last century.
I make paintings by thoroughly copying photographs to achieve a faithful image. In this way, my work is closely related to photorealism, which recovered the value of mundane and unexceptional images in art. In addition to the choice of the subject matter, I agree with this movement in the non-hierarchical treatment of reality, seen in all of its awkwardness and randomness. For me, somehow, painting found objects is a means to produce readymades by hand.
CV
Vicente Fita Botet
Cuenca, Spain, 1964
Currently living and working in Rotterdam
Education
1996-1998
Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, The Netherlands
Master of Fine Arts
1986-1991
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, Spain
Solo exhibitions
2025 “Dagleg Kynni”. Deiglan Gallery, Akureyri, Iceland
2024 “El abandono”. Galería Fúcares. Almagro
2023 “De verlating”. Niffo Galerie. Rotterdam
2015 “Transit”. WORM. Rotterdam
2014 “Sculpturesque Jokes”. Galerie Mirta Demare. Rotterdam
2011 “Habitaciones”. Escuela de Arte Cruz Novillo. Cuenca
“Trip Notebook”. Centrum Beeldende Kunst. Rotterdam
2010 “Zwart-wit”. Pictura. Dordrecht
2009 Galerie 23. Helmond (The Netherlands)
2007 “Flores, sustancias y atributos”. Pictura. Dordrecht
2006 “Schilderijen en collages op papier”. Pictura. Dordrecht
2004 “Floral wall hanging”. Galerie de Aanschouw.Rotterdam
“Bad Omens”.Gorodstoi Muzei,Chatsnykh Kolleksii. Odessa (Ukraine)
2002 “O.T.”. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación
Antonio Pérez. Cuenca (Spain)
2001 “New photo collages”. Stichting Kunst & Complex. Rotterdam
2000 “After time”. Stichting Ateliers ’93. Hengelo (The Netherlands)
1999 “Looking to the future”. Vrijhof. Universiteit Twente.
Enschede (The Netherlands)
1995 “Travaux récents”. Galerie du Quai. Mulhouse
1990 “Apocalipsis in Figuris”. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Cuenca
Projects and group shows
2025 “Double Take”. Duo show with Tom McGlynn, Galerie Nieuw Charlois, Rotterdam
2024 “50 years Fúcares”. Galería Fúcares. Almagro
2022 “Variaciones sobre el bodegón de El cardo”. Museo Zabaleta. Quesada (Spain)
2022 “Presente Continuo”. Galería Fúcares. Almagro
2021 “Variaciones sobre el bodegón de El cardo”. Galería Fúcares. Almagro
2020 Art Blaak House, group show, Rotterdam
2018 “Nadie vive de hacer dibujitos”. Niffo Galerie. Rotterdam
2016 “The Essence of Things”. Galerie Mirta Demare. Rotterdam
“China Girl”. Galerie Mirta Demare. Rotterdam
2016 18 Festival Corto Ciudad Real (Spain), “Transit”
2015 Kulter. Amsterdam
2014 Art Fair The Hague. Stand Galerie Mirta Demare. The Hague
2013 “New Diaspora”. Retort Art Space. Amsterdam
2012 “Celebration!!”. Galerie Mirta Demare. Rotterdam
“Available”. Kulter. Amsterdam
“De Salon”. Pictura. Dordrecht
“Off-Screen”. De Unie. Rotterdam
the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam
2011 “Het topje van de Boszoom”. Kunstroute Kralingen-Crooswijk
2010 “De Salon”. Pictura. Dordrecht
2009 “De Salon”. Pictura. Dordrecht
2008 “De Salon”. Pictura. Dordrecht
“Independent drawing gig 4”. The Hague
“Hoogte bereiken”. Cucosa. Rotterdam
2007 “Cuenca, otra mirada”. Convento de Santa Inés. Seville
“Zuilen in de bagger II”. Locus010. Rotterdam
2006 “Os ossos também têm fome”. Livraría Miguel de Carvalho. Coimbra
“Ayermañana”. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Cuenca
2005 “Lenguaje común”. Galería Jamete. Cuenca
“Combinatorias”. Instituto Cervantes. Utrecht
2003 “Paper works”. Galerie Mirta Demare. Rotterdam
Stichting het Wilde Weten. Rotterdam
2002 Galerie Zechs. The Hague
2001 “Dream_garden”. Stadskantoor. Rotterdam
“Café des artistes contemporain”. Witte de With Festival. Rotterdam
1999 “Situaciones”. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Cuenca
“Kunstvlaai 3”.Westergasfabriek. Amsterdam
“In gebruik”. Galerie het Langehuis. Zwolle (The Netherlands)
“Interakcija”. Galerija S.K.C. Belgrade
1998 Narodni Musej. Sabac (Serbia)
“Grenzgänge”. Meinblau. Berlin
“The Original Painters”. Stichting Ateliers ’93. Hengelo (The Netherlands)
1996 “Límites”. Universitat Vella. Valencia
1995 Spanish Chamber of Commerce. Brussels
1993 Galerie Beim Engel. Luxembourg
1992 Ian Wallace´s workshop. Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid
Palais des Arts. Toulouse (France)
Galerie Foch. Rodez (France)
1991 Galeria Fúcares. Almagro (Spain)
1990 “II Muestra de Nuevos Creadores”. Ateneo Mercantil. Valencia
“Fita, Ortega, Martínez, Rubio”. Galería Estampa. Madrid
Grants, Awards and Residences
2001 Residence: Stichting Kunst & Complex. Rotterdam
1997 Residence: “Jalovik Art Colony”. Jalovik (Serbia)
1994-
1995 Residence:“Le Quai-École d’Art & Design”. Mulhouse (France)
1994 Grant: Instituto de la Juventud. Valencia
1991 Residence: “Stage Européen de Créativité Picturale”. Moissac (France)
1990 Award: “II Muestra de nuevos creadores”
Instituto de la Juventud. Valencia
Work in public collections
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación Antonio Pérez. Cuenca
Museo de Obra Gráfica de San Clemente (Spain)
Publications
2023 Dijksterhuis, Edo. De Aanschouw
2022 Ortega-Miranda, Patricia. “Presente Continuo”.
Catalogue of the show at Galería Fúcares. Almagro
2014 Ortega-Miranda, Patricia. “On Sculpturesque Jokes”.
Catalogue of the show at Galerie Mirta Demare. Rotterdam
2013 Kooyman, Jonas. “Tapas en fiesta: wat een hard leven”.
Zie Oud Zuid Magazine. Amsterdam
2012 Catalogue of the Jalovik Art Colony 1978-2011. Jalovik. Serbia
Catalogue of the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam
2011 García Donate, Eva and Fita Botet, Vicente.
Catalogue of the show “Habitaciones”. Cuenca
Montero, Mai. “Vicente Fita presenta en Cuenca Habitaciones”.
El día de Cuenca (Spain)
van Haarst, Sannetje. “Vicente Fita Botet @ Rechtsachter CBK Rotterdam”.
www.trendbeheer.com
2006 Lindenhovius, Liesbeth. “Uitgeknipte flarden van oude schilderijen”.
AD De Dordtenaar. Dordrecht (The Netherlands)
2005 Vila, C. “Una obra mágica y diferente de dos artistas europeos”.
El Día de Cuenca. Cuenca (Spain)
2001 Zijlmans, Canis. “Beeldend kunstenaars bezetten stadhuis”.
Rotterdams Dagblad. Rotterdam
Wernke, Vincent. “Kunstenaars bezetten ruimte van het Rotterdamse Stadhuis”. Maasstad.Rotterdam
1990 Brea, José Luis. “Apocalipsis sin figuras”. Catalogue of the show
“Fita, Ortega, Martínez, Rubio”. Galería Estampa. Madrid
De Castro, María Antonia. “Enfoques de arte”. El País. Madrid
García, Manuel. “Nuevos Valores”. Levante. Valencia
García Donate, Eva. “Atlas y dados”. Catalogue of the show
“II Muestra de Nuevos Creadores” Ateneo Mercantil. Valencia