Roberto Ortuño

ROBERTO ORTUÑO PASCUAL (Barcelona, 1953).
"Character".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower left margin and on the back.
Presents label on the back of the gallery Petrixol.
Measurements: 81 x 65 cm; 94 x 78,5 cm (frame).

Trained at the La Lonja School, Ortuño made his individual debut in 1971, and the following year he won the Sala Parés Young Painting Award. Since then, he has shown his work individually in Spain, Italy, Russia, Japan and the United States, in prominent venues such as the Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg (2003), the Toho Art Corporation in Tokyo (1991), the Biosca Gallery in Madrid (1988) and the Spanish Cultural Institute of Santiago in Naples (1978), among many others. He has also participated in group exhibitions and fairs in Spain, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, France, Argentina, Brazil, Santo Domingo, Belgium, Monaco and Switzerland. Ortuño's work is characterized by its intense colorfulness, in line with the Fauvist concept.