Menchu Lamas

MENCHU LAMAS (Vigo, Galicia, 1954).
"Free", 2002.
Acrylic on board.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 30 x 30 cm; 46 x 46 cm (frame).

Menchu Lamas' work has evolved from a primitive iconography of autochthonous roots and strong chromatism to a synthetization that endows the pictorial surface with a constructive order to which shapes or silhouettes are adjusted as signs, related to exotic and primitive cultures.

He studied Graphic Design at the Institución Artística de Enseñanza (IADE) in Madrid. He began his career in the Colectivo da Imaxe, with Carlos Berride, Antón Patiño and Jorge Agra, debuting with a group exhibition in the Plaza de la Princesa in Vigo in 1974. She came into contact with the poetic group Rompente, with whom she collaborated in two books of poems. She founded the Atlántica collective in 1980, with Antón Patiño, Ánxel Huete, Guillerme Monroy and Román Pereiro. In 1982 she had her first individual exhibition at the Buades Gallery in Madrid. In the 80's he participated in some of the most important group exhibitions of contemporary Spanish art as 26 Painters / 13 Critics, II Hall of 16, "Bienal Nacional de artes Plásticas", "Cinco nombres de mujer". She has had many solo exhibitions in Spain, Germany, Italy and Morocco and has participated in several group exhibitions in different countries.