Rafael Armengol

RAFAEL ARMENGOL, (Benimodo, Valencia, 1940)
Untitled, 1978.
Silkscreen on paper. Copy 73/100.
Signed, dated and justified by hand.
Measurements: 63 x 47,50 cm.
Recently awarded with the Alfons Roig Prize of Plastic Arts, Rafael Armengol develops a work based on very diverse referents, such as the photographs that he himself makes. Trained at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia, he held his first exhibitions in 1962, together with Manuel Boix and Arturo Heras. Under the title "Monotheistic Triad", these artists represented in Spain the first version of the "Nouvelle Réalité". After this first stage of marked neo-realist sense, from 1970 there is an evolution in his art that leads him to develop a series of subversive paintings, with disturbing elements, composing a language in which there is something tragic and provocative under his meticulous and analytical narratives. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and has participated in several group exhibitions in Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona, etc. He is currently represented at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid.