Pelayo Ortega

PELAYO ORTEGA (Mieres, Asturias, 1956).
"Jazz in the night", 2016.
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled on the back.
With Marlborough Gallery label on the back.
Measurements: 50 x 50 cm.

The headlights of a car and the amber light of a street lamp, next to the sign of the jazz bar, are the only lights that illuminate the foggy night in this suggestive painting by Pelayo Ortega, great creator of lyrical atmospheres.

Trained at the Gijón Fine Arts Association and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Oviedo, he furthered his studies at the Fine Arts Circle in Madrid. His first exhibitions took place in the Atalaya Gallery and the Tassili Gallery, taking recurrence in them, as well as in other national galleries, until he became a regular artist in the International Fair ARCO Madrid. His success led him to exhibit at the Marlborough Gallery in New York, with whom he signed an exclusive contract in 1998. With more than forty-five years of career, he describes the central theme of his compositions as "the essence itself", where the creative work responds fundamentally to the idiosyncrasy of art itself. Ortega's most recent abstractions have been created with acrylics, oils, pastels and charcoal on canvas and paper. His work can be found in collections such as the Masaveu Collection in Oviedo, Coca-Cola Collection, Ifema Collection, Hispano-Central Collection in Madrid, Government of the Principality of Asturias Collection, in the Reina Sofia Museum, as well as in the Museum of Fine Arts in Santander, or in the Museum of Jovellanos in Gijón, among many others.