Manuel Salinas

MANUEL SALINAS MILÁ (Seville, 1940).
Untitled, 1980.
Mixed media on paper.
Presents informative label of the Juana de Aizpuru Gallery.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 42 x 30 cm; 60 x 47 cm (frame).
Work of abstract aesthetics, where the author has used a pictorial language of 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, the result of experimentation, pure stain and gestural brushstrokes, are 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.
A self-taught painter, Manuel Salinas is one of the leading representatives of Spanish abstraction in the last twenty-five years. His first exhibition dates from 1962, and since then he has exhibited his work in Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Colombia, Sweden, the United States, Serbia, France, Greece, Bulgaria and Mexico. In 2003 two retrospectives were dedicated to him, one in Seville, organized by the Caja San Fernando, and another traveling around Europe, with Sofia as a starting point, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has works in the Reina Sofia Museum, the La Caixa Foundation, the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Art Museums of Valladolid, Madrid and Tenerife, the Vazquez Diaz Museum and in the collections of the Bank of Spain, Olivetti, Argentaria, Endesa, BBV and Avianca (Barranquilla, Colombia). The artist also owns two works included in the book by the critic Francisco Calvo Serraller "The hundred best works of the twentieth century" (Madrid; TF and Sociedad Estatal España Nuevo Milenio, 2001).