Jorge Castillo

JORGE CASTILLO CASALDERREY (Pontevedra, 1933).
"Pandora".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner. Titled on the back.
Measurements: 80 x 120 cm.

Son of Spanish emigrants in Argentina, Jorge Castillo returns to Spain in 1957. He is introduced in the artistic circles of Madrid, and in 1958 he begins to sell his drawings in the gallery Biosca. Little by little, he began to opt for the technique of engraving, which would finally become his main means of expression, although he would alternate it with painting. In 1960 he was selected for the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. From then on he exhibited his work internationally, in galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Lisbon, Turin, Hanover, Dusseldorf and Geneva. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1976, and in 1970 he held a solo exhibition at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the first major museum exhibition dedicated to a specific period of his career. He was awarded prizes such as the International Drawing and Painting of Darmstadt, the City of Pontevedra and the Cultura Viva de las Artes Plásticas. He is represented in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lausanne, the Juan March Foundation, the National Galleries of Edinburgh and Berlin, the Museums of Modern Art of San Francisco and Vitoria, the Kunsthalle of Bremen, the Albertina of Vienna, the National Library of Spain and the Guggenheim of New York, among others.