Martín Chirino
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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
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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
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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 […]
Francisco Farreras
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Francisco Farreras (Barcelona, 1927 – Madrid, 2021) A key figure in the Spanish abstract avant-garde of the second half of the 20th century. His work is characterized by volumetric play and the physicality of the piece, the sobriety and formal refinement, the austere chromaticism and the incorporation of extra-pictorial materials such as sewn fabrics and […]
Luis Feito
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Luis Feito (Madrid, 1929 – 2021) During seven decades of artistic production, Luis Feito positioned himself as one of the great promoters of culture in Spain and an indispensable figure in Contemporary Art History. In 1957 he founded the group El Paso along with other artists such as Saura, Millares and Canogar, with whom he […]
Sergio Femar
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 […]