EVRU ZUSH
Barcelona, 1946.
Few artists can boast of having their own state, with their flag and even their stamps and paper money. That’s what happens with Zush-Evru and his peculiar Evrugo Mental State. Contemporary plastic artist of recognized prestige, he has developed part of his work in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Zush (from 1968 to 2001, pseudonym Alberto Porta) has followed an absolutely personal trajectory in which he commands, over any other concept, his will to represent a reality that he himself has conceptualized in Evrugo’s Mental State. Through images of more or less anthropomorphic figures, Zush has been describing throughout his work the inhabitants of Evrugo: beings halfway between psychedelia, comics and the magical-surrealist tradition of the Dau al Set movement. .
Zush, a character who has accompanied the artist since 1968, disappeared on February 23, 2001, during the TECURA exhibition at MACBA. This disappearance represents the end of an era and the birth of EVRU, defined as ARTCIENMIST, a sum of artist, scientist and mystic.
His work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim in New York and at the Pompidou Center in Paris and is present in the collections of these institutions, as well as in the main Spanish Museums and Foundations dedicated to Contemporary Art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1968
Hallucinations. René Metrás Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
1969
Hallucinations. Gallery Iván Spence. Ibiza, Spain.
1970
Alberto Porta, Zush. Gallery of Art Seiquer. Madrid, Spain.
Ego Zush Production. Sen Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
Galerie Rive Gauche. Paris, France.
Fred Lanzenberg. Brussels, Belgium.
1973
Ivan Spence Gallery. Ibiza, Spain.
Vandrés Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
1974
Works by Porta Zush 1965-1971. Ivan Spence Gallery. Ibiza, Spain.
Anthology. Gallery Dau al Set. Barcelona, Spain.
René Metrás Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
1975
Gallery Temps. Valencia, Spain.
Pension Fund of Navarre. Pamplona, Spain.
1976
After the eclipse. Gallery Vandrés. Madrid, Spain.
La morte della mia vita passata. Marlborough Gallery. Rome, Italy.
1977
Galerie de France. Paris, France.
1978
Galleriet. Lund, Sweden.
1979
Galerie Dr. Schurr. Stuttgart, Germany.
1980
Asura Tucare. Gallery Vandrés. Madrid, Spain.
Tucare. Gallery Joan Prats. Barcelona, Spain.
1983
Zush, Evrugo mental state in Berlin. DAAD Gallery. Berlin, Germany.
Zush, Evrugo mental state in Brussels. Galerie Camille von Scholz. Brussels, Belgium.
Galerie Lucio Amelio. Naples, Italy.
Gallery Zolla Lieberman. Chicago, U.S.A.
1984
Ignacio de Lassaletta Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
Currents. ICA-Institute of Contemporary Art. Boston. Mass. U.S.A.
Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York, U.S.A.
1985
Zush, Evrugo mental state in Brussels II. Galerie Camille von Scholz. Brussels, Belgium.
Photographs: Evrugi Creatures. Fernando Vijande Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
Spéctrum Gallery. Zaragoza, Spain.
1986
Luis Adelantado Gallery.Valencia, Spain.
Zush Aiguaforts. Artgráfic. Barcelona, Spain.
Phyllis Kind Gallery. Chicago, U.S.A.
1987
Joan Prats Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
Fernando Vijande Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
1988
Zush Retrospective. Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées. Toulouse. France.
Galerie Camille von Scholz. Brussels, Belgium.
Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York, U.S.A.
1989
The Books of Zush. Centre d’Art Santa Monica. Barcelona, Spain.
1990
Rawar. Joan Prats Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
Galerie Camille von Scholz. Brussels, Belgium. Belgium.
Gallery Sa Pleta Freda. Son Cervera. Majorca, Spain.
1991
Charpa Gallery. Espais Gallery. Gerona, Spain.
1992
Evrugo Yoosh Dasid. A.B. Galeries. Paris, France.
Zush, Evrugo mental state in Zaragoza. Miguel Marcos Gallery. Zaragoza, Spain.
1993
Zush. Drawings-Paintings. Camille von Scholz Gallery. Brussels, Belgium.
Evrugo in Diegos. Linda Moore Gallery. San Diego. CA. U.S.A.
1994
Zush and his books. Le Botanique. Brussels, Belgium.
Art for Curarte. Joan Prats Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
Uroxos=Penseurs. Galerie Camille von Scholz. Brussels, Belgium.
1996
Not suitable for minors. Charpa Gallery. Valencia, Spain.
Other books. National Library. Madrid, Spain.
1997
Trasubos. Trinta Gallery. Santiago de Compostela. Galicia, Spain.
1998
Psicomanualdigital. 1989-1998. Rafael Ortiz Gallery. Seville, Spain.
1999
COMMERCIAL=MENJARCIAL. Joan Prats Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
2000
The Bell. Reina Sofia National Museum and Art Center. Madrid, Spain.
Tecura. Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.
2001
EVRU and ZUSH. Recent Trasubos. Rafael Ortiz Gallery. Seville, Spain.
2004
The second incarnation: from Zush to Evru. Haim Chanin Fine Arts. New York. U.S.A.
2005
Office of Fluxos / Tecura. La Rambla Exhibition Hall. Girona, Spain.
2006
From Zush to Evru. Nus Museum University Cultural Centre. Singapore.
2009
Porta}Zush 1961-1979. Suñol Foundation. Barcelona, Spain.
2010
Evru and Yolanda Tabanera. Artesonado Gallery. La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia, Spain.
2011
Evruguis à Sa Pleta Freda. Sa Pleta Freda Gallery. Son Servera, Mallorca, Spain.
EVRU-ArtCieMist. Trinta Contemporary Art. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
2012
EL NO ÈSSER / EL NO SER, EVRU. Nau Côclea. La Lluena. Camallera (Empordà), Girona, Spain.
2016
Zuh/Evru. Monographic. GABINETE, Exhibition of the collector of drawings and prints. Rafael Ortiz Gallery Stand. Madrid, Spain.
2017
DONG-DA, The great bell, Les Vinyes dels Artistes (Vinyard of the artists) La Pobla de Cérvoles, Lleida, Spain.
2020
Back to being. Senda Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
2022
Zush en Ibiza. MACE, Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa. Ibiza, Spain.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1980
Minting of the 100 tucares banknote. Ediciones Polígrafa. Barcelona, Spain.
1989
Recording and publication of the LP ZUSH-TRES, Grabaciones Accidentales. Madrid, Spain.
Commemorative postage stamps for the V Centenary, commissioned by the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre. Madrid, Spain.
1992
Collaboration for the videoclip of the single Digging in the dirt, from the LP US by Peter Gabriel and in the first interactive CD-ROM of music appeared in the market XPLORA of the same British musician.
1994
Gives intensive courses on computer art Ideas that become images, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and at the Summer Courses of El Escorial of the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Testimoni Collection 1993-94. Sant Jaume Hall of La Caixa Foundation. Barcelona, Spain.
1995
Gives an intensive course on computer art organized by Centre Cultural la Mercé, at the Polytechnic University of Girona, Spain.
1996
Invited as a lecturer at Ciberart’ 96. Valencia, Spain.
Gives an intensive course on computer art organized by QUAM at La Nau. Sabadell, Spain.
1997
Gives a workshop on the Psicomanualdigital concept at the CGAC. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Direction of the seminar El arte y la tecnología de la comunicación at the center la Mercé in Girona, Spain.
Direction of the course Art in Internet in the frame of the Summer courses of El Escorial. Complutense University. Madrid, Spain.
2000
Presentation of his book Uroxos-Pensadors i Somiadors at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain.
WORKS IN MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Artium, Vitoria-Gazteiz Vitoria, Spain.
CAAC – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Andalucía Seville, Spain.
Caixaforum Barcelona, Spain.
Centre Pompidou d’Art Moderne. Paris, France.
Banco Exterior de España Collection. Madrid, Spain. Spain.
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection. New York, U.S.A.
La Caixa Collection. Barcelona, Spain.
Peter Stuyvesant Collection. The Netherlands.
Vijande Collection. Madrid, Spain.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco San Francisco, United States
FNAC (Fond National d’Art Contemporain). Paris, France. Paris, France.
FRAC. Toulouse, France.
Normandy Contemporary Art Fund. Rouen, France.
Fundació Antoni Vilacasas Barcelona, Spain.
Banque Lambert Foundation. Brussels, Belgium.
Fundación Caja Madrid Madrid, Spain.
Cartier Foundation. France.
Josep Suñol Foundation. Barcelona, Spain.
Juan March Foundation Madrid, Spain.
La Caixa Foundation. Barcelona, Spain.
La Conca Foundation. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
Sorigué Foundation Lleida, Spain.
IVAM. Valencia, Spain.
Les Abattoirs – Art moderne et contemporain (FRAC Midi-Pyrénées et Aquitaine) Toulouse, France.
MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art). Chicago, U.S.A.
MACBA. Barcelona, Spain.
National Museum of Art of Catalonia. Barcelona.
MNCARS, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain.
MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). New York U.S.A.
Musée d’Art Moderne. Brussels, Belgium.
Musée d’Ixelles. Brussels, Belgium.
Muséees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Brussels, Belgium.
Museum of Fine Arts of Alava. Guipuzcoa, Spain.
Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art. Madrid, Spain.
Osten Museum of Drawing Skopje, Macedonia.
Patio Herreniano. Museum of Spanish Contemporary Art. Valladolid. Valladolid, Spain.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, U.S.A.
Ye Um foundation. Contemporary Art Museum of Seoul. South Korea.