Antón Lamazares

ANTÓN LAMAZARES SILVA (Lalín, Pontevedra, 1954).
Untitled.1987.
Pair of drawings, mixed media on cardboard.
Signed in the lower corner.
Measurements: 54 x 71 cm (each).

Painter, sculptor and engraver of anarchic formation, and of anarchic life also, Lamazares has worked in Galicia, Madrid and the United States, where his work of expressionist, synoptic cut is very appreciated, sometimes made on perishable materials such as corrugated cardboard. Lamazares suggests ingenuities that, nevertheless, arise from careful meditation. He became known, like so many other painters, in the collective exhibitions of the Plaza de la Princesa, sponsored by the City Council of Vigo, in 1973. The following year he made his individual debut in Compostela, and was also present at the first edition of Atlántica, in Bayonne (Vigo), in 1980. That same year he began to cross borders and exhibited in Buenos Aires. He obtains grants and is selected for very restrictive exhibitions, such as the one held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid. His work travels to Brazil, Germany, France, the United States... and before he is thirty years old he is already a celebrity, an essential name in the panorama of young Spanish painting. Among his numerous personal exhibitions are those held in the galleries Ánfora (Madrid, 1977), Elisabeth Franck (Belgium, 1982), Müller (Winterthur, Switzerland, 1985), Facchetti (New York, 1988), Engström (Stockholm, 1990), Citania (Santiago de Compostela, 1991) and Pelaires (Palma de Mallorca, 1992), among many others. Lamazares began in a very synthetic expressionist figuration, characterized by a great economy of means. He evolved towards a more meditated painting, more serene and fully informalist, in which large black spaces and geometric structures dominate. In his paintings, a random thing, a non-existent object, is installed in a neutral space, and allows the viewer an imaginary dialogue of diverse suggestions. Antón Lamazares is represented in all contemporary art museums in Galicia, as well as in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Caixanova collection and various public and private collections abroad.