Ildefonso Aguilar

"Ildefonso Aguilar, born in 1945, has lived in Lanzarote since 1946. He expresses his connection with the island‘s landscape in his paintings, photographs, musical compositions and architectural artworks. He is also an important representative of the ecology movement on the island and is seen as a spiritual successor of Cesar Manrique.

From 1963 to 1968, he studied art in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. After that he taught painting and drawing for six years in Arrecife. Since his main activity of oil painting on canvas didn‘t satisfy him personally, he devoted himself increasingly to a lifelong passion, Photography.

He developed a new technique in which he worked on the photographs with sand, first applying glue to the surfaces, then designing them with the sand grains. From an initial idea, he composes landscapes with different sand – fine white grains from the beach Caletón Blanco and coarser dark from Playa Quemada. The surfaces are made of many thin layers and only selected areas exhibit a coarser structure. With a final polish, he gives an even and flawless completion.

He actually applied this technique in painting on wood, for example on such that is traditionally used for ship building. Also these sand pictures on wood are...

Solo Exhibitions

2019 - Gallery Flow Fine Art, Hitdorf
2017 - TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
Teneri a (ES) Gallery Garcia de diego, La Palma
2016 - AP Gallerie, Madrid (ES)
2015 - Gallery Flow Fine Art, Hitdorf
AP-Gallery, Riaza, Segovia (ES)
2010 - “The appearance of landscapes”
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2009 - „Landscape fragments“
Gallery Reitz, Cologne (D)
2007 - „Entre Islas“ (Between the islands)
Gallery Argenta, Valencia (ES)
„Entre Islas“, Gallerie Krabbe
Frigiliana, Málaga (ES)
2005 - „The essence of the landscape“,
Gallery Edurne, Madrid (ES)
2004 - „Senderos“ (trails), Gallery Argenta, Valencia(ES)
2003 - Sala Conca, La Laguna, Teneriffa (ES)
1998 - Kraftwerk Augst AG, Gallery 45, Augst (CH)
Arco 98 – Arte Contemporáneo – Fair of contemporary art
Conca-Room, Madrid (ES)
1999 - Gallery Am Domplatz, Münster (D)


Group Exhibitions

2016 - Gallery Flow Fine Art, Hitdorf
2010 - „El Color de la Pintura“ (The colour of paint),
Gallery Mácula, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ES)
2009 - „Duende“ (Fairy),
together with the artists Arne Haugen Sorensen,
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