Saracho (Ángel Hurtado de Saracho)

Saracho (Ángel Hurtado de Saracho) - The Bird

Technique: Acrylic

Artist Biography: Saracho (Ángel Hurtado de Saracho) (Asturias, Spain, 1973) has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Leioa in the Basque Country. He has exhibited in public institutions, foundations and art galleries in Asturias, Castilla y León, Madrid and Barcelona, and has participated in fairs such as Room Art Fair in Madrid, Cuarto Público in Santiago de Compostela and Flecha Artea in Bilbao. His work can be found in private collections and in the collection of Paradores de España. They are mostly urban landscapes, moments of cities in which their light and their people are captured on canvas from a pictorial perspective rather than a landscape perspective. The city or the character are anonymous, barely recognizable, although we know from the titles and Saracho's passion for travel that they have been seen all over the world. In his creations, composition and color rule, the sketchy form that moves towards abstraction, schematism and light. These are procedures with which Saracho manages to accurately describe the atmosphere of these snippets of life, generally relaxed and laughing scenes.

 

SARACHO - Ángel Hurtado de Saracho Born in Gijón in 1973, he graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Leioa in the Basque Country. Already at that time, his work stood out for a very personal figuration, in which he represents anonymous locations and characters, moments that apparently may lack importance, but that are part of his life experience. In his last year at the Faculty he was awarded a scholarship from Paradores de Turismo, and at the end of it, a jury chaired by the prestigious painter Antonio Lopez selected his work to be part of the permanent collection of Paradores de España. Saracho has had numerous collective and individual exhibitions in Public Institutions, Foundations and Art Galleries, as well as having participated in fairs such as "Hybrid" and "Room Art Fair" in Madrid, "Cuarto Público" in Santiago de Compostela, "Art3F" in Bordeaux, France or Flecha Artea in Bilbao. In addition, he has obtained several residential grants, the last one at the International Symposium of artists in Noja, Sianoja 2017, in which he was one of the resident participants. His work can be found in private collections, municipal art galleries and in the public collection of Paradores de España. "Saracho synthesizes what he sees, what he looks at, on the canvas through painting, in which he analyzes the sensations of color. Figuration melts in sketches close to abstraction. It is the painting, the color, the composition and the rhythms that rule". Julia Sáez Angulo