Press & Publications
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…”