Joaquín Vaquero

JOAQUÍN VAQUERO TURCIOS (Madrid, 1933 - Santander, 2010).
"Bulls".
Mixed media on thick cardboard.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 16 x 47 cm; 33 x 65 cm (frame).

Joaquín Vaquero Turcios spent his childhood in Oviedo, initiated by his father, the architect and painter Joaquín Vaquero Palacios. He began working as a draftsman, and in 1950 he made his first exhibition in Madrid. He lived in Rome for seventeen years, studying architecture there. He participated in the decoration, together with his father, of the Grandas de Salime dam and power station in Asturias. In 1953 he held his first individual exhibition in Lugano. In his work, his ability to alternate painting with murals, engraving and sculpture stands out, always incorporating what he had seen and learned in his travels, in his training and in his readings. Among the awards and recognitions received, it is possible to highlight the Gold Medal at the Salzburg Biennial in 1957, the First Prize for Painting at the Third Biennial of Paris in 1963, his appointment as a Full Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid in 1998, etc.. His work is preserved in numerous private collections, as well as in institutions such as the Museum of Architecture of the Royal Monastery of El Escorial (Madrid), the Royal Theater of Madrid, the University of Cordoba, the Plaza de Colon in Madrid, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, the Vatican Museum in Rome, etc.