Fernando Mikelarena

FERNANDO MIKELARENA (Legasa, Navarra, 1960).
Untitled.
Mixed media on panel.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 61 x 46 cm.
Fernando Mikelarena has developed his artistic activity in San Sebastian, where he lives. After completing his training he collaborated with Eduardo Chillida, with whom he worked between 1983 and 2002, the date of the Basque master's death. Although he began his artistic career in the field of painting, sculpture has gradually gained ground in his production, and he currently works equally in both disciplines, incorporating new materials, techniques and styles, although he mainly uses alabaster in his sculpture. In 1990 he held his first exhibition in the Gure Txokoa hall in Bera de Bidasoa (Navarra), and that same year he also presented his work in the Arizkun-enea palace in Elizondo and in the Etxe Beltz hall in Azkoitia. During the following years he continued to make himself known in Navarre and the Basque Country, and in 2002 he showed his work in the Provincial Museum of Salamanca. He has also participated in art fairs such as Zaragoza Contemporánea (2006), Puro Arte in Vigo (2006), Arte Sevilla (2007), Artemanía in Madrid (2007, 2008), Arkale in Valladolid (2007) and ArtMadrid (2012), among others. He has also participated in various competitions, being awarded the First Prize Elías Salaberría in San Sebastián (1992), the First Prize Bidasoa in Irún (1995), the Second Prize Antonio López in Tomelloso (1995), the First Prize of the International Contest of Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Rafael Zabaleta in Jaén (1998) and the First Prize Amurrio in Álava (1999).