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CBC Radio, North by Northwest | October 2020

In this interview Matthew Parsons and I talk about my exhibition Behind Us at Fortune Gallery in Victoria and of experiences such as painting in Antarctica. From 2:06:00

Shoutout | May 2020

“Through landscape painting, I want to open questions about the ways in which we relate to the environment. I’m not interested in sending a single message but to get the viewer to engage with the piece and set their imagination free.”

Exhibit Victoria | October 2020

Interview at Fortune Gallery where we talk about how I decided to become a painter, my motivations behind painting landscapes and my first exhibition projects.

NORA GOUMA | October 2019

“Since I moved to BC I´ve been working on a new series called Counterpoint, where I present a contrast between the urban and natural landscapes…”

CREATIVELY UNITED | September 2019

“I never look for specific messages to be handed to the viewer, I rather create open metaphors, set some questions about the ways we relate to our surroundings…”

INTERVIEW FOR VICE MX| March 2019

“On a Third floor, next to China Town in downtown Mexico City, there’s a small room full of paints, canvases, brushes and lots of blue tape. This is the studio of the Mexican painter Diego Narvaez…”

 

SDVOYAGER | November 2018

“To start a career as an artist, you have to listen to the inner call and to some that takes a long time, while others have known it since they were children…”

ARTFACTO | 2015

“I did not know I wanted to dedicate to arte, when I was in highschool. I did’nt even know what I was going to study and after ending school I decided to backpack through Europe to look for an answer.”

NOTICIEROS TELEVISA | January 2015

“ Mexican Painter, Diego Narváez, talks with us about his work and technique used to paint landscapes. Join us for the whole process of making a painting of the buildingh where his studio is located...”

 

MEXICANÍSIMO | December 2015

“The Mexican artist, Diego Narvaez, has dedicated the last years, to explore landscape painting…”

MILENIO ARTICLE | 2013

“He is a sensation seeker of landscape. He traveled to Antarctica to paint with 22 hours of natural light and wind bursts of 70 km/hr because he needed to see, feel and live the temperature, the atmosphere, the “mesmerizing blues” and the snow of the end of the world.”

INTERVIEW FOR SERENDIPIA

“The un-reflective gaze of the passerby, unaware of the aesthetic possibilities of their context, is the object referred to in Narváez's paintings; who through his work, seeks to reestablish the conscious encounter between the spectator / passer-by and the landscape…”

 

Front Cover for the Book Days With Mona by Joserra Ortiz | January 2011

CATALOGUE “TOWARDS A NEW FIGURATION IN THE MEXICAN CONTEMPORARY PAINTING” | November 2010

INTERVIEW BY GUSTAVO QUIRÓZ | 2008

“The most essential relationship between painting and LandArt is landscape. The ways in which each one addresses landscape are different, but in some cases they have coincidences, just as…”