Palazuelo, Pablo.
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Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid, 1915 - Madrid, 2007) is one of the international leaders of Spanish abstract art in the second half of the 20th century. His paintings, sculptures and prints - including his incursions into poetry and art theory - must be understood as a coherent whole. [+]
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Palazuelo, Pablo
Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid, 1915 - Madrid, 2007) is one of the international leaders of Spanish abstract art in the second half of the 20th century. His paintings, sculptures and prints - including his incursions into poetry and art theory - must be understood as a coherent whole.
Pablo Palazuelo was born on 6 October 1916 in Madrid.
He studied architecture at the School of Architecture in Madrid and later in Oxford, Great Britain, where he obtained the Intermediate exams of the Royal Institute of British Architects in Madrid.
His artistic career began in 1940 when he obtained a scholarship from the French Institute in Madrid which enabled him to study in Paris. It was in the French capital where he met Eduardo Chillida. He also became acquainted with Bernard Dorival, the curator of the Museum of Modern Art, for whom he worked until 1963, before returning to Spain.
In his early work he was inclined towards figurative art and Cubism, but gradually moved towards abstraction. His main influences were artists such as Kandinsky, Mondrian and Paul Klee. Number, drawing, line, plane, space and colour are fundamental elements of his creation, which are at the service of geometry. It was not in vain that the Madrid-born master studied architecture and embraced painting without neglecting a deep curiosity for ancient philosophy - especially the pre-Socratics - and contemporary physics, as well as hermetic and oriental thought, readings that accompanied him until the end of his life.
In 1954 he made a sculpture for the first time, an artistic facet which he abandoned, although he returned to it in 1963. His first solo exhibition was held at the Galerie Maeght in Paris in 1955. He subsequently exhibited in the main European and American museums, such as the Guggenheim in New York, the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Villa in Paris.
In 1973 he exhibited for the first time in Spain. In 1977 he presented his sculptural work for the first time, first in Barcelona, at the Galería Maeght, and in December of the same year at the Galería Theo in Madrid. In 1987 he held a solo exhibition in Madrid and four years later, in April 1991, he exhibited again at the Galería Soledad Lorenzo. In November 1993 he inaugurated an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, and at the beginning of 1994 he moved to Zaragoza, to an exhibition at the Banco Zaragozano. On 25th October of the same year he exhibited again at the Soledad Lorenzo Gallery. On 25 April 1995 he opened his first retrospective exhibition at the Reina Sofía Museum. In October 1997 he exhibited his latest works at the Soledad Lorenzo Gallery in Madrid.
In 1996 he was awarded the CEOE Prize for the Arts. On 10 December 1999 he was awarded ex aequo the National Prize for the Plastic Arts, together with the sculptor Cristina Iglesias, by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture. Velázquez Prize for the Plastic Arts 2004.
Pablo Palazuelo died in Madrid on 3 October 2007 at the age of 90.
