Santos Iñurrieta de la Fuente

(Vitoria, 1950)

Encuentro

1975

oil on canvas

130 x 130 cm

Inv. no. P02375

BBVA Collection Spain


This oil painting belongs to the early period of this artist born in Vitoria, whose beginnings are defined with by abstraction closely related with the practice of earlier artists like Carmelo Ortiz de Elgea (1944) and Juan Mieg (1938).

This work is organised in compact masses of colour which bring to mind stony forms that take over the whole of the space with a dynamic compositional rhythm.

A lover of colour, Iñurrieta wisely handles a wide-ranging though mostly dark palette which nevertheless evolved towards brighter tones in his later periods.