Martín Chirino
Martín Chirino (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1925 – Madrid, 2019) Martín Chirino was one of the most prominent Spanish sculptors of recent decades. In 1958 he joined the “El Paso” group, founded by Antonio Saura, Manolo Millares and Rafael Canogar among others. At that time Chirino encountered what would become his leitmotif and allegorical reason […]
Colita
Isabel Esteva: Colita, (Barcelona, 1940) Colita owes her name to her father, who told her that she was born under a cabbage plant (Col in Spanish), as did so many children of her time. Feisty woman, Colita has followed her city’s trace in addition to the trace of those who have made it what it has become: her […]
Juan Diaz
Juan Díaz (Toledo, 1953) Considered one of the best watercolor artists of the Spanish contemporary art scene, his compositions include large formats -highly unusual due to the technical challenges posed by watercolour. Moreover, some of his work depicts different parts of the same landscape. Thus the viewer can place the paintings together in a row […]
Sergio Femar
Sergio Femar (Pontevedra, 1990) Influenced by the changing nature of street art, Sergio Femar’s work is very aware of the matter that composes it as well as its origins. He does not approach a new piece with a fixed idea in mind, letting the experience of working on it guide him, establishing connections with the […]
Hugo Fontela
Hugo Fontela (Grado, Asturias, 1986) Hugo Fontela’s artistic training originated at the School of Arts and Crafts in Avilés where he learned to paint in an academical manner, and the School of Arts in Oviedo, where he prepared to enter into the Fine Art College, but ultimately decided not to, instead moving to New York […]
Amadeo Gabino
Amadeo Gabino (Valencia, 1922 – Madrid, 2004) Prominent Spanish painter, sculptor and printmaker. Gabino´s first sculptures can be described as figurative, however from the sixties he experienced a shift towards Constructivism creating an internationally renowned personal style, working with a series of overlapping metal plates organised like a shield. The materials he works with are iron, […]
Xavi Gonzalez
Xavi González (Terrasa, 1980) passionate autodidact, currently resides in Berlin. Gonzalez finds in painting the language to express the most unspeakable truths of the soul, and also deeps his toes in other disciplines such as music, thought, poetry, to connect and enrich his creative experience. With references to Nietzsche Philosophy or the sacred texts from the Old […]
Josep Guinovart
Josep Guinovart (Barcelona, 1927-2007) Catalan painter, draftsman and etcher, Guinovart is an essential artist to understand the Spanish art history of the second half of the 20th century. His artistic career begins with a figurative stage that evolves to a social thematic and then digs into abstraction and informalism. In 1957 Guinovart began to experiment […]
Kiker
Kiker (Aller, 1949) His mastery of drawing and color, imagination, expressiveness, irony, fine metaphorical ability that possess, as well as his exceptional talent to reinvent itself, are some of the characteristics defining the style of this artist whose work always has a recurring theme: “The man and his circumstances”. Even in its landscapes, flowers, still lives […]
Víctor López
Víctor López (Madrid, 1975) Víctor López presents us with a dream world of vibrant tones, endearing characters and impossible stories. With a figuration very close to illustration and elements borrowed from the Surrealists, López presents us with paintings, reliefs and sculptures full of criticism and irony. An eye observes the cosmos through a keyhole, a […]