"Africa Engraving Matrix" Print

Jose Luis Lazaro FerreSpain-Barcelona 1945. He begins his studies in the Baixas Academy. San Jorge Art College.Mural painting school in San Cugat del Valles, under the teacher Miquel Farre, with a scholarship from the Barcelona Provincial Council.He studies engraving at the Art College.He collaborates with the painter Ramon Vincens on the Bankisur mural in Barcelona (Chamber of Commerce).Assistant to Professor Francisco Ribera Gomez at the San Jorge Art College.PRIZES1968First prize for drawingSan Jorge Art CollegeFirst prize for Christmas cardsSan Jorge Art College1969First prize for drawingSan Jorge Art CollegeSecond prize for paintingSan Jorge Art College1970Prize from Barcelona City Council for the most distinguished student of the 1969-70 academic year.Scholarship from the Rodriguez Acosta Foundation in Granada.1971Study scholarship in the Paluar de Segovia, silver medal from the Regional Council of Segovia.1972XIV Painting Prize, Joven Sala Pares. Premio F.Gimeno1976Picasso bronze medal. MalagaSecond prize for painting in the Premio Miguel Carbonell, in Molins de Rey.
I think the easiest way to define my activity as an artist and my intellectual approach to art would be to quote Apollinaire s thesis in his Les Peintres cubistes: mditations esthetiques, especially the following sections: ... Therefore, as an offer to the spirit, in the plastic arts, the fourth dimension should be generated by the three known dimensions: represented by the immensity of space eternally present in all the dimensions of a given moment ... Cubism differs from the painting that came before it because it is not the art of imitation, but the art of thought raised to the level of creation ... Scientific cubism is one of the pure trends. It is the art of painting new compositions with elements taken not from visual reality, but from the reality of knowledge ... Physical cubism is the art of painting compositions with elements taken primarily from virtual reality In my painting, I work with geometric figures arranged on different planes that overlap one another and blend into real shapes (bottles, cats, birds, fruit), fabricated objects (small origami birds and paper boats) and everyday things (hats, shoes, etc.) to create a world of mystery and sensuality. The lines I draw are devised and expressed as sensual, mystic happiness.