Joaquín Capa

Joaquín Capa - Azul Blu

Technique: Aquatint and etching, hand touched with gouache

Artist Biography: Joaquín Capa is an artist born in Santander in 1941. He studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Madrid, as well as philosophy in Madrid and Rome, architecture in Madrid and sociology of art in Paris. He also researched new techniques for Print at W.S. Hayter's Atelier 17 in Paris. He was awarded a scholarship by the Juan March Foundation between 1975 and 1976, as well as by the Ministry of Culture between 1983 and 1984, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Baroda in 1983, 1989 and 1990, where he also won the Grand Prize at the First International Biennale of Bhopal in 1989, and for this reason he maintains an intimate relationship with the Indian territory. He also received the First Prize at the Cairo Biennale in 1994. His work has been exhibited in several cities in Spain, as well as in Utrecht and Maastricht in Holland.Capa is a renowned printmaker and painter. He taught courses at the University of Fine Arts in Barode, India, at the International Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Betanzos, A Coruña, and in Mexico, Rome and Slovenia. Among the awards won by the artist are the Grand Prize at the Bhopal Biennale, India, 1989 and the First Prize at the Cairo Biennale, Egypt, 1994. His work can be found in museums and collections around the world, such as the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte Abstracto de Cuenca, Museo Municipal de Santander, Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, National Museum of Prague, Kunsthaus in Zurich, Los Angeles Country Museum, L.A. Bharat Bhavan of Bhopal, National Museum of Egypt, 20th Century Collection, Royal Albert I Library of Brussels, National Art Museum of Hanoi and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon.