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Enrique Salamanca
(Cádiz, 1943)
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20th-21st Century Spanish
This highly creative sculptor and painter from Cadiz has incorporated new technologies into his practice.
After studying Fine Arts and Technical Drawing in Madrid, he opened his own
Silk-screening
a planographic printing technique using a thin fabric screen, tightened in a wooden stretcher. The technique takes its name from silk, the material originally used as a matrix. The first step involves defining the design of the print. Once defined, the weft of the fabric is blocked in the areas the ink is not supposed to go through—either using stencils, by applying a liquid with a squeegee, or though photomechanical techniques. The ink is then applied with a roller, passing it through the non-blocked areas and printing the image on the paper. Each colour requires a different screen. Although, as a technique, silk-screening was already used in ancient Eastern cultures, it was not until the 1960s that artists started to use it to create longer and more economical editions.
practice in 1968 and collaborated with the artists on the roster of the Carl Van der Voort Gallery. Particularly germane for his art practice was the relationship he maintained with the members of the
El Paso
and Grupo 57 art groups in the 1970s.
His evolution as an artist led him to experiment with computers at the Seminar on the Generation of Plastic Forms where he coincided with José María Yturralde (1942). There he developed a programme based on the Moebius strip resulting from his investigation of kinetic machines and sculptures.
He has exhibited his work in various Spanish cities, but also in venues worldwide including Bogotá, Lima, London, Brussels and Castres, among others.