Luis Feito

Luis Feito - October III

Technique: Etching and aquatint

Artist Biography: Throughout seven decades of artistic production, Luis Feito positioned himself as one of the great promoters of culture in Spain and an indispensable figure in the History of Art. In 1957 he founded the El Paso group together with other artists such as Saura, Millares and Canogar, with whom he shared a concern for the stagnation of art in Spain and a clear opposition to the Regime, and together they began to renew the aesthetic postulates of the country and to investigate new ways of creation. Feito's work, throughout his different periods, is characterized by gestural abstraction with ascetic overtones. The formal and material simplification are features of a work influenced by the automatism and the unique brushstroke of traditional Chinese painting. His painting of spontaneous stroke is the direct emanation of the artist's inner nature. Feito spent long periods abroad and exhibited regularly in major cities such as Madrid, Paris, Milan, New York, Helsinki, Tokyo and Rome, having been part of events such as the XXXI Venice Biennale, ARCO and Art Basel. Among the distinctions he received are the appointment as Officer of the Arts and Letters of France (1985), the Gold Medal of Fine Arts (1998) and the position of Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid (1998). His work is part of important museums and public collections such as the Guggenheim Foundation in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo de Arte Abstracto de Cuenca, the Fundación Juan March and the Fundación la Caixa.