Jorge palacios biography

Dancer of the Compañía Nacional de danza
Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy
Former dancer of the Mariinsky Theatre
Former lärling of Russian Masters Ballet

Born in Madrid. He began his training at the age of eleven at the Carmina Ocaña and Pablo Savoye Ballet School.

While studying intensive courses at Russian Masters Ballet in , he was noticed and accepted into the famous Vaganova Ballet Academy. In September he moved to St. Petersburg and after graduating two years later from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in the class of Alexei Iliyn, he joined the corps de ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre Ballet Company under the direction of Yuri Fateev.

In the repertoire of this company he performed in ballets such as Giselle, Don Quixote, The Corsair, Raymonda, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, as well as in Anna Karenina (Alexei Ratmansky), Cinderella (Alexei Ratmansky), The Little Humpbacked Horse (Alexei Ratmansky), Firebird (Michel Fokine), Leningrad´s Symphony (Igor Belsky), Le

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Jorge Palacios 

 

Jorge Palacios’s sculptures have been widely shown in public spaces, including on Manhattan’s Flatiron Plaza, New York City, where he exhibited Link (), a large-scale public sculpture curated by The Noguchi Museum. In , he exhibited Sketch in the Air in SoHo, which was selected by Artnet as one of the ten most interesting public artworks to see in Manhattan. He has also shown work in front of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, at the Floridablanca Sculpture Gardens, and in the Torres de Colón building, in Madrid, and as part of an exhibition of public sculptures in the streets of Toledo, at that city’s Sun Gate and Bisagra Gate. 

 

His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and centers for contemporary art, including his latest exhibition at the Würth Museum La Rioja, curated by Kosme de Barañ

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Artist Jorge Palacios Reveals How the Longest-Running Lab Experiment In Science History Has Shaped His Work

Any elementary school science teacher knows the most efficient way to engage a classroom is with a demonstration. They drop bowling balls and feathers off the side of their desk, or turn bunsen burner flames different colors in an attempt to make the theoretical comprehensible. Jorge Palacios, 44, has attempted something similar over his year-long career: creating a visual language based on principles of scientific phenomena, materialized into sloping sculptures. 

The Spanish artist’s pieces have transformed public spaces, with notable installations in Manhattan's Flatiron Plaza, SoHo, and the Sculpture Garden at The Noguchi Museum. In his latest exhibition, “Paradoxes of Cognitive Constructs: Physics as Language,” Palacios includes a new medium. Now on view at Chelsea’s Seizan Gallery, some of the works utilize Krion, a poreless material o