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Alfonso Albacete
(Antequera, Malaga, 1950)
Author's artworks
20th-21st Century Spanish
After his beginnings in painting at the studio of Juan Bonafé (
1901-
1969
) in La Alberca, Albacete went on to study Fine Arts and Architecture in Valencia and Madrid.
His early work flirted with
Conceptual Art
Conceptual Art emerged as a movement in the 1960s in the United States, with Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) often regarded as a key forerunner or influence. Chief among the movement’s artists are Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), Joseph Kosuth (1945), Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) and Yoko Ono (1933). It came into being in opposition to formalism, to define a number of different practices in which the underlying idea and process behind the artwork were more important than its materialisation, meaning that conceptual artworks may take on the most varied guises.
and
Pop Art
An art movement that emerged at the same time in the United Kingdom and the United States in the mid-twentieth century, as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism. The movement drew its inspiration from the aesthetics of comics and advertising, and functioned as a critique of consumerism and the capitalist society of its time. Its greatest exponents are Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) in England and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) in the United States.
, before finally opting for painting in the late 1970s with a well-defined colourist style predicated on a systematic, constructive brushwork. He had his first solo exhibition at Galería Chys, in Murcia, in 1972.
Albacete is fond of working in thematic series, which he explores methodically. A particular mention is deserved for his different series on bathers, the painter, the city of Vienna, and Narcissus. In the mid 1980s, his reliance on geometry waned in favour of a more pronounced presence of light, lending particular importance to shadows, as well as a greater use of symbolic figures. While always maintaining a figurative anchor, in the early 1990s his interest in objects per se gave way to a more experimental examination of the painterly space itself and issues pertaining to it.
In 1988, the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo held the first retrospective of his work, which is to be found in major Spanish and international collections and museums.