Pablo Palazuelo

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Artist Biography: Pablo Palazuelo1915 - 2007Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid, 1915-2007) is one of the international references of Spanish abstract art of the second half of the twentieth century. His pictorial, sculptural and printmaking work (including his forays into poetry and art theory) must be understood as a coherent whole. Number, drawing, line, plane, space and colour are essential elements of his creation that are at the service of geometry. Not surprisingly, the master from Madrid studied architecture and embraced painting without neglecting a deep curiosity for ancient philosophy – especially the pre-Socratics – contemporary physics, as well as hermetic and oriental thought, readings that accompanied him until the end of his life. With the Pythagoreans he shared the idea that mathematics is the language of Nature, and the lack of its knowledge leads to the inability to know its beauty. The operation of points, lines, surfaces and colors, Palazuelo declared in 1976, is long, slow, tortuous, full of errors, blindness, doubts, anguish and danger, but there is also, throughout it, peace, balance, deep satisfaction, pleasure and exhilarating freedom, because it is a matter of encoding the convergence of the affection of the painter with the feeling of nature." Palazuelo's production is therefore an extension of his abstract creation but by other means, which unfolded from the flatness of paper or canvas to configure the spaces of his sculptures and architectures.https://www.fundacionpablopalazuelo.es/en/pablo-palazuelo/