Antonio Ventura

"Every true work is born of what Kandinski called inner necessity.

Just as the raw material of literature is words, memory and imagination; the raw material of painting is shapes, colors and matter.

Since I began my visual work, I have felt, whatever the parameters in which I moved, that my paintings were born and are born of that inner need.

A need that leads us to find, because strictly speaking that is what happens in the practice of painting. The creator does not seek, he finds. At most, in his inquiry, he knows what he is not, what he is, appears to him in that inescapable process of the creative act.

Before, it was the schematic landscapes; then, the mineral microworld of stones and rocks, later the search for the harmony of the plane without color, now, for the last two years, the investigation in the basic and modular structures using for it the baric tablets that the Italian pedagogue Maria Montesori created for her pedagogical system.

Always on raw gray cardboard and in square format, two are the investigations that I am carrying out at present.

One of them is about the sensations produced by the piano pieces of the Korean composer HyeRyun Jung. The other are homages to contemporary painters."

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He began to paint in a self-taught way in 1970.

In 1973 he began his training at the School of Arts and Crafts in Marqués de Cubas Street in Madrid with the intention of entering the Faculty of Fine Arts, which never happened.

He worked successively with the painters Bernardo Sanjurjo, Ramiro Ramos and José Luis Gómez Perales.

In 1972 he participated in his first collective exhibition, the First Painting Salon of Llombay, Valencia, and the following year he had his first individual exhibition at the Toisón Gallery in Madrid.

1973 Toison Gallery, Madrid
1974 Antonio Machado Gallery, Madrid
1975 Reina Gallery, Madrid
1977 Luis Ajuria Room, Vitoria
SEC Gallery, Madrid
Luis Ajuria Room, Vitoria
1979 House of Culture, Cuenca
1981 Fuentetaja Gallery, Madrid
1984 Quorum Gallery, Madrid
1986 Vermell Room, Castellón
Zero Gallery, Murcia
Postal Box Room, El Escorial, Madrid
Postal Box Room, Toledo
Postal Box Room, Cuenca
Zero Gallery, Murcia
Municipal Hall, Las Rozas, Madrid
“Víctor Jara” Municipal Auditorium, Arganda del Rey, Madrid
1987 Mona Gallery, Denia, Alicante
Quorum Gallery, Madrid
1988 Edurne Gallery, Madrid
Vermell Room, Castellón
"The Forum" of Pozuelo, Madrid
“Victor Jara” Municipal Auditorium, Arganda del Rey, Madrid
1989 House of Culture, Majadahonda, Madrid
1990 Gallery H, Marbella, Malaga
Galleriet Västerbottens Konstförening, Umea, Sweden
1991 The Enchanted Tavern, Madrid
“Antonio Peral” Wineries, Colmenar de Oreja, Madrid
Santa Barbara Gallery, Madrid
1992 Bodegas de Antonio Peral, Colmenar de Oreja, Madrid
1994 Municipal Hall, Las Rozas, Madrid
1996 House of Culture, Colmenar Viejo, Madrid
1998 Gallery H, Marbella, Malaga
1999 Vermell Room, Castellon
2002 Quorum Gallery, Madrid
2008 Fourquet Gallery, Madrid
2011 Modern Art Gal...