Anton Lamazares

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Antón Lamazares (* 1954 in Galicia ) is a Spanish painter . His style developed from an initially playful expressionism towards informal art and abstraction . A minimalist tendency is evident in his more recent work . His works are distributed internationally and can be found in the Reina Sofía National Museum , the Galician Center for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, as well as in numerous private collections and foundations.

Lamazares in Berlin, 2005

Life

The first years: painting and poetry

(Galicia, 1954–1977)

Works of art from the Sueño e colorao and Titania e Brao series

Lamazares' birthplace Maceira is a village in Lalín ( Pontevedra , Spain ). From 1963 to 1969 he attended the school of the Franciscan monastery in Herbón, where he learned the scripts of the Latin and Greek classics. At the end of the sixties he began to poetry and made friends with the writer Álvaro Cunqueiro, as well as the painters Laxeiro and Manuel Pesqueira, who became his first caregivers.

Lamazares learned self-taught painting and entered in 1972 his first concert tour on which he especially Vincent van Gogh , Paul Klee , Rembrandt and Joan Miró studied. After his return he worked as a construction worker in Barcelona and otherwise concentrates particularly on the collections of Romanesque art in the Museo Marés and the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya . He then traveled to Madrid, where he again contacted Laxeiro. He also made friends with the poet Carlos Oroza, whose friendship was later important to the painter; the exchange of painting and poetry became a constant in his works of art.

In 1973, at the age of 19, he showed his pictures in group and solo exhibitions. In 1975 he had to join the Navy in El Ferrol . On September 27 of the same year he received news of the last shootings by the dictatorial Franco regime ; one of those shot, Humberto Baena, 24 from Pontevedra, was a friend of his. Lamazares sank into a deep depression and was admitted to psychiatry; during this time he wrote his collection of poems Adibal .

From Expressionism and Arte Povera to double-sided painting

(Madrid-New York, 1978–1989)

Mauro , from Gracias vagabundas , in the National Gallery of Jordan

In 1978 he moved to Madrid, where he made close friends with the painter Alfonso Fraile, the art critic and poet Santiago Amón, and the neurologist Alberto Portera, link in a large group of artists - writers, directors, musicians and painters - who met on weekends met in his country house with a large outdoor area in Mataborricos, where Lamazares realized an open-air exhibition in 1979. In the same year he met Joan Miró personally and traveled through Provence .

The eighties were marked by intensive work and wide distribution of his works of art. In his pictures he projected figures with playful and dreamy inspiration, expressionistic lines, intense chromatics and powerful originality. His work has been exhibited in Juana Mordó's gallery in Madrid, with Elisabeth Frank in Belgium and in the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona.

With a Fulbright scholarship he moved to New York for two years , his painting developed into a purer and more material-oriented concept and was exhibited in the New York gallery Bruno Fachetti. He shared his residence between New York and Salamanca and traveled through Asia Minor in 1988 - to visit the Temple of Apollo in Didyma , as a homage to Hölderlin's Hyperion - and then to Istanbul . The Byzantine churches and their imagery can be found in his more recent works. In 1990 he conceived a new series, which he bifrontes (double-sided) baptized, because they can be viewed from both sides.

The sculptural art and large formats

(Paris-Madrid, 1990-2003)

Antón Lamazares in his studio

From 1990 to 1991 Lamazares lived in Paris on a grant from the Cité des Arts . In 1991 he opened a large studio in Madrid, where he worked on his series Gracias vagabundas (Wandering Graces) and Desazón de vagabundos (Unrest of the vagabonds) . In 1993 he got to know Tàpies personally, and published an extensive interview that he conducted with him on the occasion of his award of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale . Invited by the Galician Center for Contemporary Art, he stayed in Galicia from May to November, where he painted the series Gracias do lugar: Eidos de Rosalía, Eidos de Bama (charm of the place: Rosalías fields, Bamas fields) . From June to November 1997 he painted Bés de Santa Baia outdoors in Santa Baia de Matalobos . In the same year he met the sculptor Jorge Oteiza , with whom he had a conversation lasting several hours, which was filmed by the director Chus Gutiérrez. In 1998 he painted the series Titania e Brao in Madrid , a homage to the Castilian summer, and then Pol en Adelán .

He also carried out graphic works such as the lithographs illustrating the five texts by Gustavo Martín Garzo in the artist's book El Canto de la Cabeza (Galería Sen, Madrid) or those accompanying the Itinerarium of Egeria (Raiña Lupa, Paris) that of Le Monde Diplomatique was awarded Book of the Year. In 2001 he realized a large exhibition in the port station of A Coruña , under the title Un saco de pan duro (A sack full of hard bread) .

His work was selected for international promotion by the “Spanish Art Abroad” program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SEACEX), together with other Spanish artists such as Antonio Saura , Martín Chirino , Joan Hernández Pijuan , Millares, Pablo Serrano , Oteiza or Tàpies. Lamazares traveled to Florence and Assisi to approach works of art of the Renaissance and the universe of St. Francis , to which he dedicated his new series Follente Bemil .

From abstraction to poetic minimalism

(Berlin, since 2004)

Exhibition of Domus Omnia in Santiago de Compostela

Lamazares moved to Berlin, where he has lived since 2004. After the death of his father, he started the series E fai frío no lume (It's cold in the fire) . He realized major exhibitions in Slovenia and Budapest .

Exhibition by Lamazares in New York, 2009

Then he devoted himself to the Domus Omnia series .

In 2008 he exhibited Horizonte sin dueño (Horizon without an owner) in the National Gallery of Jordan ( Amman ) and an anthology of his graphic work in the Instituto Cervantes in Damascus ( Syria ), where the poet Taher Riyad dedicated the Cantos de Lamazares poetry collection to him. In 2009 he exhibited his work in New York - at the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute - and in Orense (Spain), at the MEPs' Cultural Center. He also takes part in a traveling exhibition dedicated to the poet Vicente Aleixandre and receives the Laxeiro Award for his life's work and its international dissemination. In 2010 his work was exhibited in the University Church in Santiago de Compostela .

In 2010 the documentary film Horizonte sin dueño was shown, which was made by siblings Nayra and Javier Sanz (Rinoceronte Films). The film explores the universe of painting, poetry and nature, from the perspective of Antón Lamazares.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Throughout the 20th century, many painters wanted to express the most hidden and mysterious affairs of people, but they did so, usually on a white canvas, as if they were able to express themselves over the immaculate territory of nothingness. For me, a painter is not the one who expresses his potency on a surface, but rather the one who manages to establish a relationship based on conflict and respect with the world that surrounds him. When I take a cardboard box or a piece of wood to paint on, I do it because I think that in this way I am aware of the importance of the sacred dimension. ” Lamazares, Enter.arte , 2007
  2. ↑ Juana Mordó, una vida por el arte español ( Spanish ) In: El País . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  3. ↑ Antón Lamazares: "Cuando pinto trato de expresarme con cosas minimas, y tocar el alma" ( Spanish , pdf) In: La Vanguardia . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  4. ↑ Chirino y Lamazares exponen en Nueva York ( Spanish ) In: El País . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  5. ↑ Fieles a su propia sangre ( Spanish , pdf) In: ABC . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  6. ↑ “The myth proposed and presented by Antón Lamazares in the equidistance of twilight is not about penetrating a boundary to another world, but rather to sense and reveal a profound meaning in the infinity of this world. In keeping with the true artist he is, Lamazares transforms himself into a witness to the dimension of the infinite. Only great artists were able to conjure up this dimension and transform it into a myth. ” Santiago Amón, La pintura de Lamazares y la luz crepuscular , 1986
  7. ↑ "Utilizo la pintura a bofetadas" ( Spanish ) In: El País . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  8. ↑ Lamazares presenta un montaje "poseído por el hábitat" de Galicia ( Spanish ) In: El País . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  9. ^ Antón Lamazares: "A mi pintura hay que acercarse a gatas, con mirada de niño"; Territorios de la emoción ( Spanish , pdf) In: ABC . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  10. ↑ Apoteosis del exceso ( Spanish ) In: El País . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  11. ↑ Canto de la carne ( Spanish ) In: El País . Retrieved November 10, 2010. La carne no es triste ( Spanish , pdf) In: ABC . Retrieved November 10, 2010. El Kama-sutra de Lamazares ( Spanish ) In: El Cultural (El Mundo) . Archived from the original on April 18, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 10, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elcultural.es
  12. ↑ “His work has been associated with Jean Dubuffet, Gaston Chaissac and his idea of ​​the Art brut , the spontaneous, but in reality it is always a search for the humble beauty, always threatened by the great storms of truth and social Constraints. Gustavo Martín Garzo. “ Jonás y la calabacera , 2000
  13. ↑ Los demonios interiores de Lamazares asaltan el museo Kiscelli de Budapest ( Spanish ) In: El País . Retrieved November 10, 2010. The exhibition of the painter Antón Lamazares ( English ) Museum Kiscelli. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  14. ↑ Antón Lamazares expone en SCQ la series “Domus Omnia” ( Spanish ) In: La Voz de Galicia . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  15. ↑ Filmando a Lamazares ( Spanish ) In: El País . Accessed 2010 November 10, Anton Lamazares at Queen Sofia ( English ) In: Village Voice . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  16. ↑ A construción da alma de Antón Lamazares ( Galician ) In: El País . Retrieved November 10, 2010.
  17. ↑ Lume na fonte. Exhibition for "Xacobeo 2010" in Santiago de Compostela
  18. ↑ Un documental sobre el pintor Antón Lamazares levanta el telón de la sexta edición del festival de cine de Tui ( Spanish ) In: La Voz de Galicia . Retrieved November 10, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Lamazares, Antón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Galicia