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Antón Lamazares (born 1954) is a Spanish painter, who is, along with José María Sicilia,
Miquel Barceló Miquel Barceló Artigues (born 1957) is a Spanish painter. Career Barceló was born at Felanitx, Mallorca. After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma de Mallorca, Palma for two years, he enrolled at the Fine Arts School ...
and Víctor Mira, a member of the "generación de los 80". Working elaborate surfaces of wood and cardboard with varnish and other materials, he has created a very personal medium and artistic language. From an initially playful
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, his style has developed toward
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and straightforward
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, and, more recently, a sort of
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in which an intimate dialogue between soul and memory, the spiritual and the sensual,
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and dream-life can take place. His works have been exhibited throughout the world and are held by numerous important institutions, including the National Museum Reina Sofía, the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, the Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art and the Marugame Hirai Museum of
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, as well as by many private collectors and foundations.


Biography


Early years: painting and poetry

(Galicia, 1954–1977) Lamazares was born on 2 January 1954 in Maceira, a village in
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(
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,
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), whose rural environment left a deep impact on his imagery and creative process. Much of his early schooling (1963–1969) took place at the Franciscan seminary of Herbón where he devoted himself to the study of literature, mostly Latin and Greek classics. In the late 1960s he began writing poetry and developed friendships with the writer
Álvaro Cunqueiro Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora ( Mondoñedo, December 22, 1911 – Vigo, February 28, 1981) was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including ''Merlín e familia'' ("M ...
and the painters Laxeiro and Manuel Pesqueira, who would become formative influences. As his creative vocation began to shift from poetry toward painting, he undertook lengthy travels throughout Europe (1972) to study in person work by the masters he revered, including,
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,
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and
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, to whom would be added
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, Manuel Millares,
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and
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, as well as
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and the
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. At the conclusion of his travels he stayed briefly in
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, where he took a job as a construction worker, studying the works in its museums, particularly the collections of
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at the Marés Museum and the
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in his free time. In
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, where he next alighted, he resumed contact with his maestro, Laxeiro, and got to know the poet
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, whose friendship would remain essential for him: the dialogue between painting and poetry is a constant in all of his work. In 1973, at the age of only 19, Lamazares had already begun exhibiting his paintings in group and solo shows. In 1975 he began his compulsory military service in the Navy, in
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. On September 27 of that year he learned the startling news of the final executions by the Franco regime, following the Burgos Trial; one of the executed culprits was his friend Humberto Baena, a 24-year-old from Pontevedra. The news sank Lamazares into a deep depression, resulting in a period of psychiatric institutionalization. It was during this time that he would write his collection of poems, ''Adibal''.


From expressionism and ''Arte Povera'' to ''bifacial'' painting

(Madrid-New York, 1978–1989) In 1978 Lamazares moved to Madrid, where he formed a close friendship with the painter Alfonso Fraile, as well as with the gallerist Juana Mordó, the art critic and poet Santiago Amón and the neurologist Alberto Portera, the link to a large group of artists –writers, filmmakers, musicians and painters– who would meet on weekends at his country house in Mataborricos, where Lamazares would mount an open-air exhibition of his work in 1979. That same year he would meet Joan Miró, and travel through
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to acquaint himself with the landscape of Van Gogh,
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, Cézanne or
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. The 1980s were a time of intense creative activity and broad diffusion of his work: by the age of 30, Lamazares had already carved out a space in the panorama of Spanish as well as international art. His paintings of the time show playful and dreamlike figures depicted in an expressionistic mode, intensely chromatic and powerfully original. He exhibited at Juana Mordó's gallery in Madrid, at Elisabeth Frank's in Belgium and at the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona. Soon he moved to
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, where he would remain for two years on a
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. There, his painting, which he exhibited at the Bruno Fachetti Gallery, developed in a direction at once purer and more material. For a period he divided his time between New York and
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. In 1988 he traveled through
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–visiting the temple of
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as a tribute to Hölderlin's ''Hyperion''– and
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, where he was deeply impressed by the Byzantine churches. Imagery reflecting his experience, articulated by the arrangement of wood in the paintings, can be seen in the work exhibited at Galería Miguel Marcos. In 1990 he began preparing a new series of works, designed to be looked at from both sides, which he calls ''bifrontes (bifacials)''.


Sculptural painting and large formats

(Paris-Madrid, 1990–2003) In 1990 and 1991, Lamazares came to
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on a stipend from the Cité des Arts, and in 1991 he opened a large studio in Madrid, where he began to work on the series ''Gracias vagabundas (Wandering Graces)'' and ''Desazón de vagabundos (The Anxiety of Vagabonds)''. In 1993 he met Tàpies and published an extensive interview with him subsequent to Tàpies having been awarded the
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at the
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. Invited by the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, he spent May to November 1996 in Galicia painting the series ''Gracias do lugar: Eidos de Rosalía, Eidos de Bama (The place's charm: Rosalía's fields, Bama’s fields)''. From June to November 1997 he worked outdoors in Santa Baia de Matalobos on ''Bés de Santa Baia''. That same year he became acquainted with the sculptor
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, a lengthy conversation with whom is filmed by Chus Gutiérrez. In 1998, in Madrid, he painted the series ''Titania e Brao'', a tribute to the Castilian summer, and subsequently ''Pol en Adelán''. During this time, he also created numerous graphic works, including a suite of
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to accompany five texts by Gustavo Martín Garzo in the artist's book ''El Canto de la Cabeza'' (Galería Sen, Madrid) and the
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that accompany ''Itinerarium'' by Egeria (Raiña Lupa, Paris), a work that was nominated as book of the year by ''Le Monde Diplomatique''. In 2001 he mounted a grand-scale exhibition at the Seaport of
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, under the title ''Un saco de pan duro (A Bag of Hard Bread)''. His work was chosen for international promotion, along with that of other Spanish artists such as
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,
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, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Millares,
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, Oteiza and Tàpies by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under its program Spanish Art for the Outside World. Around this time Lamazares traveled to
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and
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to examine works of
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as well as to gain familiarity with the milieu of
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, to whom he would dedicate his new series, ''Follente Bemil''.


From abstraction to poetic minimalism

(Berlin, since 2004) In 2004, Lamazares moved to Berlin, where he has been living ever since. Following the death of his father he began the series ''E fai frío no lume (It’s Cold in the Fire)''. He was the subject of large exhibitions in
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and in the Museum (Church) Kiscelli in
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(
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). Subsequently he devoted himself to the series ''Domus Omnia'', and collaborated in the creation of two further artist's books by Oroza: ''Deseo sin trámite'' (Aguatinta,
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) with a
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and ''Un sentimiento ingrávido recorre el ambiente'' (Raiña Lupa, Paris) to which he contributed five lithographs. In 2008 he exhibited ''Horizonte sin dueño (Unowned Horizon)'' in the National Gallery of
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(
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) and an anthology of his graphic work in the
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of
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(
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), where the poet Taher Riyad dedicated the collection of poems ''Cantos de Lamazares'' to him. In 2009 he exhibited his work at the
Queen Sofía Spanish Institute The Queen Sofía Spanish Institute is an organization in New York City, founded with the aim of promoting the culture of Spanish speaking countries and to foster their relations with the United States. It is located at the Oliver D. Filley House ...
in New York, as well as in
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(Spain), at the Cultural Centre of the Delegation. He also participated in a traveling exhibition dedicated to the poet
Vicente Aleixandre Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (; 26 April 1898 – 14 December 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man ...
and received the Laxeiro Prize honoring his life's work and its international renown. In 2010 he exhibited his work at the University Church, in
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, and in Tui, where the documentary ''Horizonte sin dueño'', was screened at its international film festival Play-Doc. The film, directed by the siblings Nayra and Javier Sanz (Rinoceronte Films), presents a journey through the universe of painting, poetry and nature from the perspective of Antón Lamazares. On 20 May 2010 the
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awarded him its Insignia de Oro (Golden Shield). This was the first time in six centuries that this honor was conferred upon an artist. On 28 June 2010, during a ceremony held at the Igrexa de San Domingos de Bonaval, the
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, conferred upon him the Medalla Castelao, acknowledging "the perfection, the symbolism and the transcendency of the works" as a reflection of the devotion to and faith "in the culture, the history and the essence of a people."


See also

*
Abstract art Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a Composition (visual arts), composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. ''Abstract art'', ''non-figurative art'', ''non- ...
*
Expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
*
Minimalism In visual arts, music, and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in the post-war era in western art. The movement is often interpreted as a reaction to abstract expressionism and modernism; it anticipated contemporary post-mi ...
*
Contemporary art Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a ...
*
List of Spanish painters A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...


References


Notes


Bibliography

*AMÓN, Santiago, "La pintura de Lamazares y la luz crepuscular", ''Lamazares 1978-1986'', A Coruña, Durán, 1986. *CALVO SERRALLER, Francisco, "La musa en cueros", Madrid, Montenegro, 1986; "Casa de la pintura", ''Domus Omnia'', Madrid, Álvaro Alcázar, 2007. *CASTRO, Fernando, "Fragmentos de un texto que no pude escribir", ''Antón Lamazares. Un saco de pan duro'', A Coruña, Ayto. de La Coruña, 2001. *CASTRO, Luisa, "Alma en lunes o la noche de las estrellas que brillan poco", ''Antón Lamazares. Alma en lunes'', Ourense, Museo Municipal, 2002. *FUENTES FEO, Javier, "Inventar y divulgar nuevos secretos. En torno a la pintura de Antón Lamazares", ''Lamazares'', Madrid, SEACEX, 2005. *GABILONDO, Ángel, "Del verde llover", ''Antón Lamazares. Gracias do lugar'', Santiago de Compostela, CGAC, 1997; "Una conversación entre Ángel Gabilondo y Antón Lamazares" (entrevista), ''Lamazares'', Madrid, SEACEX, 2005. *LOGROÑO, Miguel, "Todos los ojos del mundo", ''Reconocimientos. Colección Miguel Logroño'', Santander, Museo de Bellas Artes, 2007. *MARTÍN GARZO, Gustavo, "Jonás y la calabacera", ''Antón Lamazares. Iles Quén'', Madrid, La Caja Negra, 2000. *MIKUŽ, Jure, "La imagen original bajo las capas del palimpsesto de la conciencia", ''Lamazares'', Madrid, SEACEX, 2005. *MOURE, Gloria, "Antón Lamazares", ''Artforum'', Nueva York, mayo de 1987. *MURADO, Miguel-Anxo, "Hermana carne", ''Follente Bemil'', Madrid, Metta, 2003. *RIVAS, Manuel, "La leyenda de Antón Lamazares", ''Antón Lamazares'', Murcia, Palacio Almudí, 1995. *SANDOVAL, Michael, "Antón Lamazares. The Vagabond Shaman", ''Antón Lamazares'', Nueva York, Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, 2009.


External links


Documentary about Lamazares
at Play-Doc
Lamazares at SEACEXWorks by Lamazares at the Colección CaixanovaLume na fonte. Exhibition for the "Xacobeo 2010" in Santiago de CompostelaLa pintura de Lamazares y la luz crepuscular
by Santiago Amón
Exhibition catalogue of ''Domus Omnia'' & ''E fai frío no lume''

Website of painter Antón Lamazares
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