159 - PEDRO MUIÑO (A Coruña, 1954).

PEDRO MUIÑO (A Coruña, 1954). "From the dictionary of uncertainties V", 2015. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the right margin and on the back. Measurements: 53.5 x 64.5 cm; 56.5 x 67 cm (frame). Vigo, Trujillo (Venezuela), Ferrol, are vital spaces of the childhood and adolescence of Pedro Muiño. Together with other artists from A Coruña, he founded the collective "Gruporzan". In 1996 he moved to Catalonia where he lived for a couple of years, later settling in Alicante, where he lives at present. Since his first individual exhibition at the age of 17, he has had about forty individual exhibitions in A Coruña, Vigo, Ferrol, Madrid, Bilbao, Santiago, Barcelona, Valencia, Miami, Murcia, Alicante and numerous group exhibitions in Spain, France, Belgium, USA, Portugal. His work starts in the 70's from a surrealism with hyperrealist connotations, a surrealism that will remain latent through time and will periodically emerge in different forms in certain periods of his work. The drift in the 80's towards an Atlantic figuration and at the same time Italianizing and mythological, will leave a symbolist aftertaste, which will remain evident in his later work after the abandonment of figuration towards a much more "psychic and introspective" work, vital space in which he will move from the beginning of the 90's, until today, with the natural evolution of the convulsive character of the author's work, always in struggle between his natural baroque style (undoubtedly originated by his childhood spent between the interior of Venezuela and Galicia, with its pantheism and explosive natural richness with its consequent impact on the retina of the author) and the aesthetic and conceptual need for cleanliness and simplicity. His current work, which could be relatively freely defined as "black series", on which he has been working for the last few years, has its origin in series from 1994, 1996, 2001, works that were not shown to the public, that type of work that remains in the studio and that eventually emerges and ends up consolidating.