Fernando Sanchez Calderon

FERNANDO SANCHEZ CALDERÓN (Valladolid, 1951-2016).
Untitled.
Etching on handmade paper, copy P.A. I/X.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 79 x 97 cm.

He carries out his artistic training in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Madrid, where he graduates, to later obtain his doctorate from the University of Salamanca, in whose Faculty of Fine Arts he works as a professor. Between 1970 and 1975 he received a scholarship from the Spanish Institute of Emigration and in 1982 he obtained a scholarship for the Investigation of New Expressive Forms from the Ministry of Culture. His first creations are framed within the figuration, being his work known in the mid-seventies after being selected to participate in the Biennial of Sao Paulo in 1977. In the eighties his painting is oriented towards abstraction and is influenced, in the first years of the decade, by abstract expressionism. He held his first individual exhibition in 1974 at the Stadium Gallery in Valladolid, and later exhibited in Segovia, Almagro, Madrid, Santander, and many others. He has participated in important group exhibitions, among which include: Contemporary Spanish Painting (1974) at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon (Portugal), III International Cairo Biennial (1988) in Egypt and XIII Salón de los 16 (1993) at the Velázquez Palace in Madrid's Retiro Park.