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He was born in Bilbao in 1930.
He began as a self-taught painter. In the late forties he went to the Vázquez Díaz workshop on a scholarship. He had his first one-man show at Sala Estudio, Bilbao 1948. In 1950 his encounter with Oteiza marked a turning point in his work.
In 1956 he went to Paris, where he founded "Equipo 57" with Angel Duarte (1929), José Duarte (1926), Juan Serrano (1929) and Juan Cuenca (1934).
His paintings develop his political ideology in plastic terms and may be classified as "social paintings", which denounce the proletarian and rural world.
The study of curved spaces and the relationship between the negative and the positive influence his work, which is closely related with nature.
In recent years he has lived a reclusive life in his farmhouse, doing large-scale pieces and working on his interventions in nature with his "Bosques" ("Forests"), pictorial decorations made with trees.
Work in museums and public collections
Thorvalsen Museum. Copenhagen
Museo de Bellas Artes. Bilbao.
Museo de Bellas Artes. Vitoria.
Fundación Emilio Botín. Santander.
Fundación Guayasamín. Quito. Perú.
Fundación Salvador Allende. Santiago de Chile.
Bosque de Oma. (Oma Forest). Bizkaia Regional Government.
Sculptures in railway stations, alongside motorways, in housing communities and public parks.
Awards
1966. French Critics' Prize.
1993. Gold Medal of Fine Arts. Madrid.
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