NEWART centre – Centro de arte digital y tecnológico en Reus

Barcelona, 1946.

Evru

Evru (born Alberto Porta, named Evru since 2001 and previously Zush since 1968) has maintained an absolutely personal trajectory in which his will to represent a reality that he himself has conceptualized while in the mental state of Evrugo prevails over any other concept.
Few artists have had the genius to create their own parallel world, full of the symbols of an independent state. Evru began his career young under the guidance of the gallerist René Metras and currently works on an ongoing interactive project, Tecura, based on the premise defended by the artist, “art to heal”. Each person has an artist within. Evru, who works interchangeably with traditional media and digital technology, has also developed his musical and performative facets. His work is characterized by the construction of a personal mythology, of an autobiographical nature. A cartography that feeds on accumulated images, as well as on the creation of a script, a personal code that attempts to express what cannot be explained rationally. In his work, multiple parallel universes converge, maintaining a tense and delicate balance between chaos and rational order. Founder and inhabitant of an imaginary state, Evrugo Mental State, conceived as a self-sufficient space whose energy expands with a clearly universalist intention. Evrugo Mental State arises from necessity, as a utopia of physical and mental liberation that confronts the historical situation of Spain at the time of its creation, and the international context surrounding it in the late seventies. He has participated in international exhibitions such as Documenta VI in Kassel, 1977, New Images from Spain, 1980, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York, Les magiciens de la terre, 1989, organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others. He has been the subject of major retrospectives such as at Today Art Museum, Beijing, 2007, Shanghai DuoLun MoMA, 2007, NUS NX Gallery, Singapore, MACBA, Barcelona, 2001, or at MNCARS, Madrid, 2000. In 2001 he received the City of Barcelona Award for his two retrospectives, [Zush. La Campanada], MNCARS, 2000, and [Zush-Tecura], MACBA, 2000-2001). ​ Work in the collection: Expanded Eye, Tecura, Opaulo http://evru.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Porta_y_Mu%C3%B1oz

"Tecura", 2008

In 1999 Evru (FKA Zush) began to develop “Tecura”, an interactive application for online audiovisual creation, based on tools created by the artist, making available to users a bank of sounds and images with which to produce their own artistic creations. In this way, Evru attempts to decentralize the author in favor of a new democratization of art. In 2008 Devru developed version 4.0 and incorporated it into the platform. The artwork in the collection is a digital print generated by this software.

Work on deposit from LaAgencia Collection.

Opaulo, 1990

This digital print on canvas bears witness to Zush’s pioneering experiments with computer-generated images. This figure emerges from the relentless generation of worlds, myths and alternative iconographies by the artist. A god-like appearance, a summoning of the personified forces of nature.

Awarded the XVIII ARCO BEEP Prize.