Gerardo Rueda

GERARDO RUEDA SALABERRY (Madrid, 1926 - 1996).
"Forms in space. Three propositions I", 1991.
Engraving, etching and varnish. Copy 35/75.
Edition: Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, 1991.
Presents dry stamp.
Signed and justified by the artist.
Measurements: 21,5 x 30 cm; 35 x 44 cm (frame).
Considered one of the key artists of the second half of the XX century, Rueda was pioneer in the introduction of the informalism in Spain, and creator of the Museum of Abstract Art of Cuenca together with Zóbel. He exhibited for the first time in 1949 in Madrid, and since then his work will be increasingly present in the artistic spheres of the capital. In 1957 he took the definitive international leap and held his first solo exhibition in Paris, at the Galerie La Roue. The exhibition was a great success, and shortly afterwards the then director of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Villa de Paris, Jean Cassou, acquired his painting "Composition grise ou Balbina". On the other hand, his solo exhibition in 1958 at the Ateneo de Madrid gave him repercussions in Spain. Thus, he will participate in the Spanish Pavilion of the XXX Venice Biennial with three paintings. During these years Rueda and Zóbel began to build up their magnificent collection of works by Spanish abstract artists of the post-war period, for whose exhibition they formed the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca in 1966. Meanwhile, Rueda continued to show his personal work in important galleries, and in 1965 he began his collaboration with Juana Mordó in Madrid, which would eventually become his gallery. The following year he also won the Serra Brothers Prize at the Salón de Mayo in Barcelona. He exhibited twice at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the IVAM dedicated nine productions to him, including exhibitions and catalogs, between 1996 and 2008. In 1995 he was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Gerardo Rueda is currently represented at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the British Museum in London, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico, Caracas and Barcelona, etc.