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Manuel Franquelo - Things in a room (Untitled #13)
Biography of the Artist: Born in Malaga in 1953. He studied Engineering and Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. He began his career painting, over a period of ten years, a set of ten exquisite and enigmatic hyperrealistic still lifes. In the 1990s he became interested in projects using practices borrowed from engineering and scientific photography. His work, process-focused, eclectic and multidisciplinary, is situated at the antipodes of media-specific art. His work can be found in collections such as: The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid; Museo de Electrografía, Cuenca; Fundación BBVA, Madrid; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid; Fundación Sorigué, Lleida; Nagasaki Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA. His exhibitions include: Realisms, Takashimaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan (1991); The language of Things, Kettle's Yard Museum, Cambridge, England (2001); Manuel Franquelo. Transfiguring the insignificant, Marlborough gallery, Madrid (2009); Penelope's Labour, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (2011); Manuel Franquelo, Marlborough, New York (2015); Manuel Franquelo. Things in a Room, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid (2015); Manuel Franquelo, Michael Hoppen, London, England (2017). Franquelo received the Premio Nacional de Print, Calcografía Nacional. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid in 1998.
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