Miguel Angel Campano

MIGUEL ÁNGEL CAMPANO (Madrid, 1948 - 2018).
Untitled, 1993.
Oil on canvas.
Presents informative label of the Juana de Aizpuru gallery.
Signed and dated on the back.
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm.
In this work the author uses an abstract language, based on the irregular geometry, of organic character both in its outline and in the colors. It is an open style, whose basic characteristic is the conception of the pictorial surface as a whole, as an open field, without limits and without hierarchy. Thus, as we see here, the pictorial forms are the result of a thoughtful composition and experimentation, with an image of gestural character, not limited to a composition but go beyond, indicating to the viewer that it is about forms, ideas or suggestions that go beyond the boundaries of the purely pictorial. During the 90's Campano experimented with this game of geometries of pure lines where black and white had an absolute protagonism. An example of this is shown in the Catalog of the exhibition of Miguel Angel Campano in the Palacio de Velazquez, which covers the works made between 1991 and 1998, which was held in 1999.
Miguel Angel Campano is one of the referents of the so-called renovation of Spanish painting, which took place in the eighties and in which Ferran Garcia Sevilla, Jose Manuel Broto, Jose Maria Sicilia and Miquel Barcelo also participated. In the 70's he moved to Paris thanks to a scholarship; the planned year became a stay of more than ten, there he lived and developed his brilliant pictorial career. Then he went to live in Mallorca. In 1980 he was part of the exhibition Madrid DF, in the Municipal Museum of Madrid, along with several artists among whom were the same ones that today -except García Sevilla- accompany him in the Palacio de Velázquez. Five years later he was selected, together with other fellow artists of his generation, then all young painters, such as Miquel Barceló, who was already an outstanding figure, and José María Sicilia, for a group exhibition in New York. In 1996 he was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts. He had just suffered a serious stroke and underwent surgery in Madrid. This forced him to spend several months without painting. Then he painted "only in black", a very symbolic color according to his own words. Three years later, the Reina Sofia Museum organized in this same Palacio de Velazquez an exhibition dedicated to his recent work then, that of the 90s. His works are exhibited in the most important museums, such as the British Museum in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía in Madrid.