Eusebio Sempere

(Onil, Alicante, 1923 – 1985)

Author's artworks

20th Century Spanish

He trained as an artist first at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia and then in Paris, where he travelled to further his studies thanks to a scholarship. His time in Paris, from 1948 to 1959, would have a profound influence on the development of his practice which, from that moment onward, moved within the limits of rationalist abstraction and
.

Sempere built an exemplary career based on seminal works which included his
pieces from the 1950s, his luminous reliefs, mobiles and op works using the effects of vibration in the perception of colours, which he often presented in fine lines.

In the 1960s his work began to be noticed in America and he exhibited on several occasions at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York. Sempere was at the forefront of the use of computers in art. He created sculptures for public space and a large number of graphic works.

Throughout his career Sempere won numerous awards, including the Gold Medal in Fine Arts in 1980 and the Prince of Asturias Award in Fine Arts in 1983.