Juan Díaz-Faes
Juan Díaz-Faes (Oviedo, 1982) Born in Oviedo, Spain, Juan Díaz Faes studied Fine Arts before moving to Madrid in 2011. HE later pursued a PhD where he researched the creative process, how ideas originate and where they come form. In 2011, he moved to Madrid where he developed his prolific creative career. His versatility has […]
Juan Manuel Fernández-Pinedo
Juan Manuel Fernánez-Pinedo (Madrid, 1978) Madrid-born artist Juan Manuel Fernández-Pinedo began painting in the early 1990s. His work is characterised by a profound exploration of plasticity, integrating realism and abstraction. The subject matter of his works covers a wide variety: from portraits, landscapes and animals to complex compositions where he shows us a multiplicity of textures, […]
Anita Suárez de Lezo
Anita Suárez de Lezo (Madrid, 1980) Anita studied design at Parsons school in New York, and then worked for several years in the fashion business. She deepened her learning with a master in graphic design which sparked her definitive passion for art. Fashion, architecture and oriental minimalism influence her work and are projected on her […]
Soledad Córdoba
Soledad Córdoba (Avilés, 1977) “I am interested in photography as a space for contemplation, a medium through which I can evoke emotions and experiences rooted in the personal yet amplified and expressed universally through a poetic language. Women are always the protagonists and guides in my work. Through performative self-referentiality, photography serves me as both […]
Tadanori Yamaguchi
Tadanori Yamaguchi (Nagoya, 1970) Yamaguchi establishes a constant dialogue with the world around him, as well as with the materials he works with. In this process, both the artist and the material are transformed while the spectators take part of the exchange by interacting with the pieces, discovering new realities. With many of his works, […]
Pablo Palazuelo
Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid, 1915 – 2007) Palazuelo is one of the main international figures in Spanish Abstract Art of the second half of the XX century. His pictorical, sculptural and engraved work (even his incursions into poetry and art theory) must be seen as a coherent whole. The number, the drawing, the line, the plane, space […]
Ernesto Knorr
Ernesto Knorr (Vitoria,1957) Ernesto Knorr began working as a sculptor in 1978. As a disciple of a rich Basque sculptural tradition, his work drinks from the influences of the greats such as Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida, especially in the adaptation and appropriation of spatial and formal concepts. The result of years of investigation and […]
Mico Rabuñal
Mico Rabuñal (Arteixo, A Coruña, Spain, 1979) The works of Mico Rabuñal stand out for their technical mastery and Pop influences. In the words of the sculptor himself, “I am inspired above all by the importance of emotional memory, sculpting in marble, granite and limestone a series of sculptures based on objects or “things” made […]
Salustiano
Salustiano (Seville, 1965) “Beautiful, disturbing and profound. Such is the painting of this Spaniard that circulates in galleries and art fairs around the world, giving a twist to the tradition of portraiture with images in red that fuse Renaissance perfection with mathematical rigor”. This is how the American journalist Sandra Lodos defines Salustiano’s work. The […]
Iván Quesada
Iván Quesada (Oviedo, 1975) Quesada is a self-taught artist whose career—the result of a palpable mastery of drawing, color, and anatomy—has quickly established him as one of the most important portraitists on the current Spanish scene. His work is characterized by its creative ambition and continuous exploration of new forms and formulas. This is the […]
Luis Feo
Luis Feo (Toledo, 1975) The works of Luis Feo reveal a technical perfection only within the reach of very few artists. His hyperrealism is based on his great mastery of graphite and airbrush, layers and layers of varnish, his observation of the environment -found images and photographs taken by himself-, and his imagination that synthesizes […]
Eva Poyato
Eva Poyato (Cartagena, 1972) With a degree in Fine Arts from the University of San Carlos and a Masters in Graphic Art, Eva Poyato likes to use her hands to create and her studio table is always full of papers, fabrics, sheets, wood, branches, wires, hooks, seeds, and an endless number of small objects that […]
Diego Moya
Diego Moya (Jaén, 1943) Throughout his extensive artistic career, Diego Moya has researched the limits and symbols of Expressionist Abstraction through multiple projects and artistic manifestations, alternating between architecture, painting, sculpture and installation. In his latest stage, he resumes work with light boxes and their quantum worlds -cubic pieces with hand-carved methacrylate sheets and a […]
Rosa Amores
Rosa Amores Fuente (Gijón, 1972) Rosa Amores has dedicated her life to telling stories in diverse and creative ways. From her earliest memories, she has experimented with matter and expression to fulfill this mission. Deciding that her destiny laid in art, she graduated from the Oviedo School of Art, majoring in Illustration. This fascinating period […]
Mario Soria
Mario Soria (Barcelona, 1966) The works of Mario Soria take place in a parallel reality. While his sci-fi brushstrokes and fanciful surrealism can take us to the future, the artist himself rejects that label, well aware of all the influences that shape his personal cosmology and that he finds in the present. Art and cultural […]
Moisés Yagües
Moisés Yagües (Murcia, 1972) Moisés Yagües pictures the interior of the human head and body as a place where stories take place, where ideas come to life and take literal meaning. His cartoonish characters, full of energy and tenderness, already cause smiles all around the world due to his exhibitions in Germany, Mexico, Chile, China, […]
Carol Solar
Carol Solar (Santiago de Chile, 1975) Influenced by cartoons, comics, fashion, children’s stories and music videos, Carol Solar’s own imagery exudes humor and irony while exploring the concepts of identity, relationships, personal space and the passage of time. Through attractive colors, simple lines and numerous references to mass culture, Solar depicts seemingly happy and naive […]
Juan Manuel Castro Prieto
Juan Manuel Castro Prieto (Madrid, 1958) Like so many other artists, the beginnings of National Photography Award winner Juan Manuel Castro Prieto are separated from art. Nevertheless, his creative genius and passion soon prevail and he finds his path away from his studies in economics to focus on photography. In his self-taught beginnings he works […]
Eugenio Recuenco
Eugenio Recuenco (Madrid, 1968) Eugenio Recuenco was born in Madrid in May 1968, amidst the student protests that had spread from Paris. As he himself will say: “I, who heard all that commotion, was in a hurry to be born and see what was happening.” He studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid […]
Pablo Genovés
Pablo Genovés (Madrid, 1959) Pablo Genovés’ work uses images -sometimes appropriated from old prints and photographs found in markets and antique dealers in Europe, other times taken by himself- and transforms them through digital techniques, mixing them with other images and previously painted canvases. This symbiosis, between a pre-existing reality and another created by the […]
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 […]
Alejandro Bombín
Alejandro Bombín (Madrid, 1985) The recurring themes in his work are memory and error. His approach to painting is based on information overload, transience and reproducibility, characterizing forces of the technological image in our time. Alejandro Bombin’s projects allude to the incessant confirmation of what has already been observed and to the brief validity of […]
Ana Barriga
Ana Barriga (Jerez de la Frontera, 1984) Ana Barriga, Bachelor of Fine arts by the University of Seville, currently lives and works in Madrid. She works with mixed media, using oil, enamel, felt pen, and spray, which she uses as an act of vandalism towards her own paintings, a hallmark of all her work. In […]
Rosa Brun
Rosa Brun (Madrid, 1955) Rosa Brun studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and obtained a Doctorate at the University of Granada, where she currently works as Professor of Painting. Her work addresses the pictorial problems within the new avenues brought by the Abstract Art of the nineties in Spain. Since the end […]
David Magan
David Magán (Madrid, 1979) David Magán works with sculpture and installation, exploring the possibilities of these concepts in relation to the space they inhabit. Hiss sculptures are presented as geometric modules, made of acrylic or glass. They are dynamic structures in constant change according to the location they are viewed from and the constructive possibilities […]
Francisco Mayor Maestre
Francisco Mayor Maestre (Madrid, 1990) The childhood and adolescence of Francisco Mayor Maestre in Rivas-vaciamadrid was marked by daily trips to the capital in which he observed the changes in the landscape and the margins of the city. Faced with the excessive urbanization and real estate speculation, Mayor Maestre is attracted by the contrast between […]
Gonzalo García
Gonzalo García (Gijón, 1966) His path as a sculptor began in the early 1990s when García attended “L’Europe D’Art D’Art” in Niort (France). There, a totem became his first work to be presented to the public. From there on, geometric abstractions, performance, installations and even teaching sculpture courses for the Spanish Ministry of Culture characterize […]
Pablo Armesto
Pablo Armesto (Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 1970) Pablo Armesto’s work is framed within a geometric abstraction that evolves into a more contemporary and experimental kind of sculpture. Delving into the study of the object in its three dimensions, its relationship with space and the search for new materials, such as LEDS, neons, cathodes and fiber optics, which […]
José María Mellado
José María Mellado (Almería, 1966) Throughout his career, Mellado has positioned himself as one of the most prominent Spanish photographers and his landscapes, the fruit of a tireless and personal search for beauty in the apparently vulgar, bland or decadent, enjoy great international recognition. His intimate gaze, poetic atmospheres and mastery of light, which he […]
Dionisio González
Dionisio González (Gijón, 1965) Dionisio Gonzalez graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Seville and furtherer his studies in Computer-Assisted Image at the Moor Print Workshop in Devon, England, in Art Printing at the Art College of Heriott Watt University in Edinburgh and in Film and Television at the Aula do Risco School of […]
José María Navascués
José María Navascués (Madrid, 1934 – Oviedo, 1979) The work of the sculptor and painter José María Navascués was of vital importance in the artistic Asturias of the Sixties and seventies, being considered today as one of the most unique artists of the Spanish panorama of the second half of the twentieth century. In his […]
Alejandra Glez
Alejandra Glez (Habana, Cuba, 1996) Alejandra Glez is a self-taught Cuban visual artist based in Madrid. Her work is focused on the deconstruction of stereotypes and stigmas associates with the female body. Through photography, video art, digital art and performance, Alejandra works with topics associated with Afro-Caribbean religions, collective memory and the spirituality that emanates […]
Paula Anta
Paula Anta (Madrid, 1977) Paula Anta inhabits the landscape through her photography. She is always looking for its mysteries, bewitched by a desire that does not let her remain at rest when faced with the existence of something that escapes her. There is a determination in the way of stalling in that place, a choice […]
Chema Madoz
Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958) Madoz studied Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid, while alternating photography courses at the Image Teaching Centre, and in 1983 he made his first solo exhibition in the Royal Photographic Society of Madrid. In 1990 he begins to develop the concept of the object, a constant subject in his […]
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 […]
Luis Gordillo
Luis Gordillo (Sevilla, 1934) Throughout more than six decades of work, Luis Gordillo has navigated between various artistic currents, whose particular interpretation and perpetual renewal have made him one of the main artistic artists in Spain, both in the avant-garde of the last century and nowadays. His characteristic style is more a result of his […]
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 Genovés
Juan Genovés (Valencia, 1930 – Madrid, 2020) To speak of Juan Genovés is to speak of the recent History of Spain. His firm belief in an ever-changing and compromised art led him to take part in some of the most significant cultural groups of the Spanish post-war scene: Los Siete (1949), Parpallós (1956) and Hondo […]
Rosa Muñoz
Rosa Muñoz (Madrid, 1963) Rosa Muñoz is a Spanish artist and crucial photography of the staging (or built photography) movement representative- which comes from Spain. Throughout her long artistic career, Rosa has always worked from Madrid -her birthplace and actual residence. She holds a long history of both collective and individual exhibitions at national or international levels. Among the numerous solo […]
Orlando Pelayo
Orlando Pelayo (Gijón 1920-1990 Oviedo) Orlando Pelayo was one of the most internationally successful Asturian artists of the 20th century and one of the most representative of the Spanish School of Paris painters. Pelayo exhibited individually in prestigious galleries in Oran, Algiers, Paris, Sweden, Tokyo, Munich and, of course, Spain. In addition to participating in collective […]
Lucio Muñoz
Lucio Muñoz (Madrid, 1929-1998) belongs to the 1950s generation, and is considered one of the pioneers of abstraction in the Spain. Critics emphasized the expressive power of his work, full of mystery and with a strong presence of nature. His graphic work must be added to this (with vital technical contributions to the world of […]
Antonio Suárez
Antonio Suárez (Gijón 1923-2013 Madrid) was one of the greatest 20th century art representatives in Spain, known as one of the El Paso group founders, and one of the extensive classic Spanish abstract painting artist list. Suárez made painting with a figurative base, and an abstract appearance as a result. Chromatically, his work evolves from […]
Joaquín Rubio Camín
Joaquín Rubio Camín (Gijón, 1929-2007): Asturian sculptor, painter, designer and photographer, sculptural field, Camín stands out as one of the highest representatives of the abstract and constructivist movements always from a personal style. Camín’s works are set in numerous cities in Spain and also in private and public collections in Europe and America, of […]
Alejandro Quincoces
Alejandro Quincoces (Bilbao, 1951) Both oil painting and graphite artist, the artist uses an average, everyday-like situation to capture a timeless moment which depicts both, past and future. His work seeks emotional possibilities under a credible, and simultaneously mysterious atmosphere. Turner, Lucio Muñoz, Goya and Velazquez majorly influenced Quincoces palette. Quincoces has exhibited in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Bologna, […]
Edgar Plans
Edgar Plans (Madrid, 1977) Edgar Plans has a degree in Art History, but, in his own words, he “doesn’t have academic studies in the art world.” As a child, he attended the workshops of Carlos Roces and José María Ramos, then he wanted to fly on his own and thus began a painting career with […]
Pelayo Ortega
Pelayo Ortega (Mieres, 1956). In his etchings and paintings the characters are reduced to brief, however highly expressive lines. Pelayo Ortega is one of the Spanish painters of greater international scope, has exhibited in cities such as: Madrid, Barcelona, Palmade Mallorca, Cuenca, Teruel, Gijón, Monaco, Braga and Santiago de Compostela among others, and participated in contemporary art […]
Salvador Montó
Salvador Montó (Valencia, 1963) Montó is considered by many critics as one of the most outstanding artists of the new Spanish figuration. In Salvador’s glance over streets, skyscrapers or taxis there is a subtle overview of the city in which they appear, as suggested, many other things. His brushes transcend, even though his work is […]
Alejandro Mieres
Alejandro Mieres (Astudillo, Palencia, 1927 – Gijón, 2018) Prominent normative art representative, Alejandro Mieres develops a language based on geometric rhythmic modulations, subtly carved on dense chromatic surfaces, achieving a result that goes beyond the purely formal to merge into the symbolic. He has presented his work in important galleries like Juana Mordó or the […]
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 […]
Lisardo
Lisardo Menéndez (Mieres, 1960) Lisardo’s deeply personal style emerges from monochrome backgrounds with enigmatic and dynamic structures that he turns into completely unique compositions. The order, balance and deceptive simplicity of his paintings immerse us in a pictorial constructivism in which blacks, whites and reds predominate in a geometric abstraction with subtle figurative allusions to […]
Ismael Lagares
Ismael Lagares (Huelva, 1978) Lagares is one of the Spanish artists of his generation with the greatest national and international outreach. Most of his production is made up of canvases, which can reach imposing sizes, where he applies dense oil impastos and hand-made ceramics covering the surface in striking three-dimensional compositions. He combines techniques such […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Irma Álvarez Laviada
Irma Álvarez Laviada (Gijón, 1978) Irma currently lives and works in Marseille. Laviada is a Fine arts Graduate by the University of Vigo, who currently pursues a PHD under the title “El vacío como despliegue autorreflexivo de la propia obra”. Exhibitions, participation in art fairs, awards and collections: Irma has exhibited in numerous galleries at national and international levels […]
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 […]
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 […]
Carlos Albert
Carlos Albert (Madrid, 1978) Madrid-born sculptor Carlos Albert began his formation in 1999 with Martín Chirino, from whom he not only learned the technique and sculptural conception, but also helped him discover new paths in his artistic creation. In that same year, he created along with other artists “Group 99”, which praised “the traditional values […]
Juan Ugalde
Juan Ugalde (Bilbao, 1958) Ugalde began to exhibit his artworks in the 80s and lived for several years in New York. Between 1989 and 1992 he was part of the Estrujenbank artistic collective, dedicated to a politically committed art, with the artist Patricia Gadea and the poet Dionisio Cañas, among others. His solo work leads […]
Javier Torices
Javier Torices (Madrid, 1968) Javier Torices paints the sea. Each brushstroke a drop of light, the taste of salt, the play of sand and water, a study in movement. Torices began painting in his father’s workshop with basic oil techniques before switching up to his signature acrylic on wood. In the search for his own […]
Samuel Salcedo
Samuel Salcedo (Barcelona, 1975) Samuel Salcedo studied Fine Arts in Barcelona and Manchester and began his path in the art world through painting, before discovering sculpture and deciding to dedicate himself completely to it. Having assisted in the workshop of one of the most important and influential sculptors of the current art scene, Jaume Plensa, his […]
Francisco Farreras
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 […]
Rafael Canogar
Rafael Canogar (Toledo, 1935) Rafael Canogar is a key figure in the History of Contemporary Spanish Art as a founding member of the El Paso group (1957-1960) and a pioneer and representative of various artistic styles. From a very young age, his aptitude for drawing and oil painting granted him an apprenticeship with Vázquez Díaz […]
Albano
Albano (Ávila, 1988) Albano Hernández, or simply Albano, is a Spanish painter living in London. He studied Fine Arts in the Complutense University of Madrid and obtained his MA at the Royal College of Art. He has been the recipient of multiple honors and awards since the beginning of his career such as the BMW […]
David Rodríguez Caballero
David Rodríguez Caballero (Palencia, 1970) The metal sculptures of David Rodríguez Caballero exhibit fluid and refined lines that play with the reflection of the light and the movement of the curve. His preferred materials for his large wall or free-standing sculptures are bronze, aluminium and brass, although he has expanded his work into explorations of […]
Santiago Picatoste
Santiago Picatoste (Mallorca, 1971) Santiago Picatoste’s pictorial production delves into the psychology of shape and colour and the sensory and aesthetic experience through it. These colourful abstractions that Picatoste groups together under the term Atlas are conceived as metaphorical landscapes in which the artist shows his mastery of colour and traditional painting techniques, and the combination […]
Isabel Muñoz
Isabel Muñoz (Barcelona, 1951) Born in Barcelona in 1951 and based in Madrid since 1970, photographer Isabel Muñoz has managed to stand out among the many and very diverse proposals defining the contemporary photography scene in Spain, by utilizing the platinum printing technique and large formats in order to reinforce her discourse -a passion for […]
David Morago
David Morago (Madrid, 1975) Morago’s production is firmly rooted in nature, replicating fauna and flora in his peculiar “cabinet of curiosities”, inspired by the Renaissance practice of collecting and displaying art along with minerals, botanical and zoological specimens, etc. The artist combines these concepts to create his own “chamber of wonders” through which the viewer […]
Jorge Hernandez
Jorge Hernández (Huelva, 1973) The paintings of Hernández, suspended between cinematic evocation and contemporary exploration of the image, invite us to immerse ourselves—like his own characters—in a territory where memory, fiction, and desire float in a balance as enigmatic as it is deeply human. His scenes exude an aura of mystery, like a suspended frame […]
Herminio
Herminio Álvarez (La Caridad, 1945) Herminio’s artistic production revolves around constant investigations that motivate his creation. The artist works and experiments with diverse materials, textures and colors, along with multiple supports that contain, encompass, reflect, support and distribute his works in all manner of spaces, where they generate their own habitat, with their small subtleties […]
Gorka García
Gorka García Herrera (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, 1982) Gorka García is one of the gallery’s youngest artists, whose work depicts uninhabited landscapes in which the poetics of the ruin and a deep compositional and formal analysis are the common denominator. Gorka’s work tries to deepen and reflect on the existing relationship between the various […]
Luis Feito
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 […]