Juan Ribera Berenguer

JUAN RIBERA BERENGUER, (Valencia, 1935 - Castellón, 2016).
"Paisaje".
Gouache on cardboard.
Signed in the lower right corner.
With label on the back.
Measurements: 70 x 100 cm; 75,50 x 105,5 cm (frame).
Trained at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Juan Ribera was a founding member of artistic groups such as Parpalló, Arte Actual and Movimiento Artístico del Mediterráneo. He has been part of the Valencian and Madrid artistic avant-garde thanks to his accentuated expressionism of realistic tendency, participating in the exhibitions of the Juan Mordó gallery. During his artistic career, Berenguer cultivated the genre of still lifes and still lifes starring his characteristic pots, in addition to working the scenery of the landscape, especially that of his homeland. His paintings are loaded with oily impastos that remarkably emphasize the contours of each figure portrayed. It is worth mentioning the perspective and the optical work that Berenguer's works contain, because, if we look at the landscapes and objects, they are represented in a distorted way.
He exhibited individually at the Dirección General de Bellas Artes de Madrid (1969) and the Museo de la Ciudad de Valencia (1998), among other centers, and participated in important group exhibitions such as those held at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1963), "Pintores figurativos de la España actual" (1964), which toured the United States, and the IVAM in Valencia. Throughout his career he has received pensions from the Diputación and the City Council of Valencia, the Casa Velázquez in Madrid and the March Foundation, and has been awarded the Valencia Prize at the Fine Arts Exhibition in Barcelona (1960), the Diputación de Valencia at the National Exhibition in Madrid (1968), the gold medal at the Salón de Marzo in Valencia (1977) and the Archival Prize for artistic merit (1995), among others. Ribera is represented in the San Pío V Museum in Valencia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vilafamés, the Municipal Museum and the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid, the Springfield Museum (Massachusetts), the Cathedral, the Diputación, the Ateneo and the Museum of the City of Valencia, etc.