Miguel Angel Campano

MIGUEL ÁNGEL CAMPANO (Madrid, 1948 - 2018).
"Que te den café". Diptych, 2002.
Mixed media on canvas.
Work exhibited in "Miguel Ángel Campano D'après", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. 2019.
Work reproduced in the catalog "Miguel Ángel Campano D'après", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, 2019. p. 107.
Presents on the back label of the Juana de Aizpuru gallery (Madrid).
Measurements: 170 x 120 cm (x2); 170 x 240 cm (total).
This work was exhibited in the exhibition held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in 2019. This being the last exhibition project in which the author participated, as he points out to the Museum.
As the turn of the millennium approached, Miguel Ángel Campano returned to exploring the use of color and, on occasion, used traditional Indian lungi fabrics as a support. This turn marked the beginning of a period focused on interwoven motifs, initially inspired by the wefts present on the surface of the canvas itself. This approach would later lead to a profound research on white and on the arrangement of color on a large scale, conceived almost as a visual fabric. The chromatic intensity, now in an expressionist line, is also manifested in this diptych.
Miguel Ángel Campano is one of the referents of the so-called renovation of Spanish painting, which took place in the eighties and in which Ferrán García Sevilla, José Manuel Broto, José María Sicilia and Miquel Barceló also participated. In the 70's he moved to Paris thanks to a scholarship; the planned year became a stay of more than ten, there he lived and developed his brilliant pictorial career. Then he went to live in Mallorca. In 1980 he was part of the exhibition Madrid DF, in the Municipal Museum of Madrid, along with several artists among whom were the same ones that today -except García Sevilla- accompany him in the Palacio de Velázquez. Five years later he was selected, together with other fellow artists of his generation, then all young painters, such as Miquel Barceló, who was already an outstanding figure, and José María Sicilia, for a group exhibition in New York. In 1996 he was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts. He had just suffered a serious stroke and underwent surgery in Madrid. This forced him to spend several months without painting. Then he painted "only in black", a very symbolic color according to his own words. Three years later, the Reina Sofia Museum organized in this same Palacio de Velazquez an exhibition dedicated to his recent work then, that of the 90s. His works are exhibited in the most important museums, such as the British Museum in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía in Madrid.