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Eduardo Sanz
(Santander, 1928 - Madrid, 2013)
Author's artworks
20
th
Century Spanish
After training at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid, in the 1950s Sanz created a type of painting akin to Informalismo. However, in the 1960s he evolved towards experimentation with matter, using glass and mirrors as his main support. That period coincided with his membership of the
Antes del Arte
in 1967, the art critic Vicente Aguilera Cerni promoted an art group in Valencia which was the starting point for a new movement grounded in Op and Kinetic art. The mandate of the group was to establish nexuses between science and art. Optical illusions, impossible figures and images deriving from Gestalt psychology were critical elements in its creations.
group, which also awakened in him an interest for Op and Kinetic art. That second period ended in 1974. As from that moment, his painting tended towards the depiction of seascapes, flags and lighthouses rendered in a hyperrealist language. His work has been seen in major Spanish and European galleries.