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Julián Gil Martínez
(Logroño, 1939)
Author's artworks
20th-21st Century Spanish
A loyal follower of
Constructivism
an art and architecture movement born in 1914 in Russia which became known particularly after the October Revolution. The movement defends an active engagement of the artwork with its surrounding space. The term was first used by Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) in 1917 to contemptuously describe a work by Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956) and it did not have a positive connotation until the
Realist Manifesto
from 1920.
ever since the beginning of his career, Gil Martínez’s works are based on geometric compositions created using mathematical formulas.
The artist began training at the School of Arts and Crafts of Logroño in 1954 and then, in 1958, he continued his education at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid.
His career has not been exclusively focused on the creation of artworks, and since 1963 he has been teaching at various art schools. At present he is a lecturer at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid.
In the 1970s he was a member of the so-called
Nueva Generación
Nueva Generación [New Generation] is the name given by the painter and theorist Juan Antonio Aguirre (1945-2016) to a group of fourteen Spanish artists who, in 1967, decided to create a new style to move beyond the limitations of the language of Informalism with a painting more in tune with their generation. They championed experimental art accessible to the public, socially engaged and predicated on intellectual activity. The most outstanding artists of the movement are Jordi Teixidor (1941), who undertook a revision of Geometric Abstraction, and Luis Gordillo (1934), who developed a style closer to
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.
. Little by little, the members of the group started to develop more personal languages, which ultimately led to creating a distance between them and eventually to the disbandment of the group.
group founded by Juan Antonio Aguirre (1945) and Luis Gordillo (1934) which covered a great variety of visual proposals, with each member’s trajectory clearly differentiated from the rest.
In the 1980s he became involved in what was known as No Grupo de Madrid (Madrid No Group), a collective made up by geometric art practitioners which came together following the exhibition
Las ocho caras del cubo
at Galería Ovidio in Madrid, and disbanded with the exhibition at Galería Soto-Mesa in the ARCO art fair in 1988, although without too much media impact.