20^th Century Spanish
 
A self-taught artist, Lamazares traded in his initial vocation for poetry for painting and travelled abroad in order to study the great European masters firsthand. In 1976 and 1979 he received scholarships from the Provincial Council of Pontevedra and the Lalín Town Council and another one in 1981-1982 from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

Lamazares was a member of the Atlántica group and was close friends with Laxeito and Manuel Pesqueira, who would be his initial points of reference. In 1973 the artist began to exhibit his work, taking part in a number of solo and group shows. His works, made on “found” and “poor” supports (cardboard and wood with the traces of their previous use left undisguised), are executed with automatic drawing and an ironic use of expressionism. In 1978 Lamazares moved to Madrid, where he met fellow painter Alfonso Fraile and the gallery owner Juana Mordó, among other intellectuals and leading lights from the artworld of the time.

In the 1980s he moved to New York, staying there for two years with a Fulbright scholarship, and travelled to Istanbul and throughout Anatolia, where he was captivated by Byzantine architecture. The evolution of his style throughout the decade led to a body of work consisting of enormous quasi-minimalist varnished pieces indebted to , to which he added plays of distance and dissonance reminiscent of Tàpies.

In the 1990s he obtained the Cité des Arts grant and opened a studio in Madrid. In 2004 he moved to Berlin and was decorated with the Gold Medal of the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 2010 the regional government of Galicia honoured him with the Castelao Medal and, one year later, the new Museo de Pontevedra organised a survey exhibition of his work.