Luis Feito

LUIS FEITO (Madrid, 1929- 2021).
"Enigma magazine poster nº 4-5".
Poster. Copy 100/200.
Signed by the author and justified in pencil.
Measurements: 84 x 53 cm.
Enigma magazine was a Spanish cultural and artistic publication of the fifties, linked to the intellectual environments and the aesthetic renewal that began to emerge in post-war Spain. Its aim was to disseminate the new trends in contemporary art, especially abstraction and the avant-garde tendencies that were beginning to make their way in the face of the dominant academic art of Franco's regime.
The Spanish painter Luis Feito was a key figure in Spanish abstraction and a founding member of the El Paso group, a fundamental group for the artistic renovation of the post-war period. After his first solo exhibition in 1954 at the Buchholz gallery in Madrid, he began an international career that led him to exhibit in cities such as Paris, New York, Milan, Tokyo and Rome. That same year he was appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, although he soon abandoned teaching to move to Paris on a scholarship to study the avant-garde of the time. There he was influenced by automatism and matter painting, which were decisive for his artistic evolution.
Throughout his career he received numerous awards, such as the Order of Arts and Letters of France (1985) and the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (1998). His work is part of important international collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, consolidating his place as one of the great representatives of Spanish abstract art of the twentieth century.