José Luis Fajardo

JOSÉ LUIS FAJARDO (La Laguna, Tenerife, 1941).
"Tassili-Uria 5", Oviedo.
Aluminum.
Titled and located by hand.
Measurements: 100 x 68 x 6 cm.

According to his own words, his first training came from the hand of his maternal grandfather, Enrique Sanchez, who allowed him to be and play in his studio with colors, pencils ... In 1964 he moved to Madrid, already part of the group "Nuestro Arte", which stands out for its influence of the group El Paso. Since then he continued with his artistic work: he was always linked to the development of the Spanish historical avant-garde (informalism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, etc.), but there are several stages in his work. A first one, with abstract variations referred to geometric planes; followed by the "Magic Portraits Series" with strange characters, veiled, without contours, with which he speaks of the miseries of man; followed by another with embossed aluminum as the protagonist; since the nineties, his "uchronic" characters are known, who could have existed but have not, without lips to speak and without making themselves understood with their calligraphic signs. His work has been exhibited in Tenerife, Madrid, Segovia, Sao Paolo, Barcelona, Seville, Paris, Dublin, Bogota, etc., and his works can be seen, for example, in the National Library of Madrid, the Columbus House Museum in Las Palmas, the Figi Collection in Switzerland, the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas, etc.