ANTONIO MURADO LÓPEZ (Lugo, 1964). "Marañas",... Lot 51

ANTONIO MURADO LÓPEZ (Lugo, 1964). "Marañas", 2000. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on the back. Measurements: 36 x 36 cm. A Galician artist currently based in New York since 1996, Antonio Murado develops a work halfway between abstraction and the classical conception of landscape, which seeks not so much to reflect nature as to create a new one. At the end of the 1980s he opened a small gallery in Lugo, Zú, where avant-garde artists and prominent representatives of the Central European scene of the time exhibited their work. In parallel, throughout his career he has held exhibitions of his work in galleries in Spain, the United States, Holland, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Austria, Portugal and in various North American countries, with the retrospective that the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela dedicated to him in 2002 being particularly noteworthy. His work is currently represented in such important collections as the Marugame-Hirai Museum in Japan, the Fine Arts Museum of Álava, the CGACG in Santiago, the Spanish and Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art in Cáceres, the Sofía Imber Museum in Caracas, the National Heritage of Spain, the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection and the Philip Morris Collection in New York, etc.