Iñaki de la Fuente is a tireless self-taught artist who has never stopped evolving since his beginnings in the seventies. Eminently painterly, his early period is impregnated with the revolutionary attitude that took hold of the art scene in Bilbao, which he had joined thanks to Agustín Ibarrola (1930). From the eighties onwards he became more focused on the dialectics of painting itself. Throughout this decade he went through various successive phases, some very brief, in which he experimented with his canvases: the figure appeared, only to disappear again; his palette went from acid colours to black, followed by another quasi-monochrome phase, based on white delimited by black and, at the end of the period, with areas of red. His work from the final year of this decade and the early nineties is characterised by great expressive force and the presence of spirals and whirlpools and the traces of predominantly dark and dramatic brushwork with some areas of white.

De la Fuente normally works in suites and his artistic experimentation from the early nineties led to this series called Sueños. The pure abstraction of his painting at the time seems to conjure up a dreamlike world; his brushwork is organised on the canvas in a circular movement, much more paused and calm than in his earlier works (several of which are included in the BBVA Collection) and with a greater presence of linear, almost graphic details, some with texture, that lends the work a sense of great visual wealth.