José Pérez Sanleón

JOSÉ PÉREZ SANLEÓN (Catarroja, Valencia, 1953).
Abstraction, 1991.
Collage on board.
Signed and stamped in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 34 x 43 cm;. 57 x 65,50 cm (frame).
One of the most important abstract authors in the renovation of the Valencian and Spanish artistic panorama of the eighties, José Sanleón began his career in the seventies, and already in 1978 and 1979 he was one of the first winners of the Bancaja Prize of Painting, in the then called Salón de Primavera. That same year, 1979, he participated in the exhibition "Perspectiva 80", and in 1986 he was part of the collective "Plástica valenciana contemporánea". That same year he held an outstanding exhibition in Paris, at the Antiope France gallery, and in 1995 he exhibited at the Valencian gallery Parpalló. Mainly a painter but also a sculptor, Sanleón has carried out projects in the latter field, such as the sculptural installation at the main entrance of the Lauria building in Valencia (2008). In 2007 a major retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him at the IVAM in Valencia, an institution that will dedicate another exhibition to him in 2010. Two years later, in 2012, the Bancaja Foundation held an extensive exhibition of his recent work. Sanleón is currently represented in the IVAM in Valencia, the Bancaja Foundation, the Argentaria and other collections, both public and private.