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ANTÓN LAMAZARES SILVA (Lalín, Pontevedra, 1954). Untitled, 1981. Gouache, ink, wax and cardboard on panel. There is a tear in the frame and some damage. Signed in the lower central area. Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid. Measurements: 126 x 122 cm; 151 x 146 cm (frame). In this piece on cardboard, the artist not only composes the work on the basis of drawing and colour, but also intervenes directly on the support by tearing and manipulating the texture of the cardboard. A characteristic that he explored in several works such as 'A Sepultura de Fiz', 1985, which belongs to the collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Artium, located in Vitoria. The expressive pictorial language with complementary colours used as a background and a figure with deformed features indicate that it is probably a work from before 1987. This is the year in which he travelled to New York and his style changed towards informalism and abstraction. A painter, sculptor and engraver with an anarchic background and an anarchic life, Lamazares has worked in Galicia, Madrid and the United States, where his expressionist, synoptic work, sometimes on perishable materials such as corrugated cardboard, is highly appreciated. Lamazares suggests ingenuities which, nevertheless, emerge from careful meditation. He became known, like so many other painters, in the group exhibitions in the Plaza de la Princesa, sponsored by the Vigo City Council, in 1973. The following year he made his individual debut in Compostela, and was also present at the first edition of Atlántica, in Bayonne (Vigo), in 1980. That same year he began to cross borders and exhibited in Buenos Aires. He obtained grants and was selected for very restrictive exhibitions, such as the one held at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Madrid. His work travelled to Brazil, Germany, France, the United States... and before he was thirty years old he was already a celebrity, an essential name in the panorama of young Spanish painting. Among his numerous personal exhibitions are those held in the galleries Ánfora (Madrid, 1977), Elisabeth Franck (Belgium, 1982), Müller (Winterthur, Switzerland, 1985), Facchetti (New York, 1988), Engström (Stockholm, 1990), Citania (Santiago de Compostela, 1991) and Pelaires (Palma de Mallorca, 1992), among many others. Lamazares began with a very synthetic expressionist figuration, characterised by a great economy of means. He gradually evolved towards a more meditated, more serene and fully informalist painting, in which large black spaces and geometric structures dominate. In his paintings a random thing, a non-existent object, is installed in a neutral space, and allows the spectator an imaginary dialogue of diverse suggestions. Antón Lamazares is represented in all the contemporary art museums in Galicia, as well as in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Caixanova collection and various public and private collections abroad.