Luis Palomares

My work is the result of a long process of purification from the most severe academism that over the years was transformed into the search for new forms of expression, perhaps always thinking of a plastic language where simplification prevails and according to reality that i have had to live. Contemporary life in general terms is the main element of inspiration that we count on artists and our concern is to manifest with the means at our disposal the impressions we capture by our rapid passage through this world. For a professional in the art, the task is complicated and nothing is easy: 70 years in the plastic arts have taught me, it is one thing to apply colors on one surface right and left and another is to use the same Colors on the same surface, but with method and knowledge, which involves many years of study and dedication.

Concretely I have reached a stage where simplification is accompanied by a load of emotional expressiveness according to what our five senses daily grasp the present humanity that every day that passes gives signs of loss of equanimity so we suffer a psychosis that to great step is driving us to total madness; But what I am sure of is that all my work is a self-portrait because it is my other self.

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Luis Palomares is originary from the State of Michoacan, Mexico. In 1947 he started studying in the Michoacan’s Fine Arts School “The Morelia’s School of Popular Fine Arts” (Escuela Popular de Bellas Artes de Morelia). From 1950 to 1954 Palomares realized his professional studies in The National School of Plastic Arts “The Academy of San Carlos” (Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, U.N.A.M., Academia de San Carlos), with masters such as Luis Sahagun, Carlos Alvarado Lang, Erasto Cortéz, Benjamín Coria, among others. Between 1955 and 1956, he traveled to Central America preparing his professional exam, graduating in 1957 from de Academy of San Carlos. From that time Palomares worked as an Art Professor in The Public Education Department (Secretaria Educación Pública - S.E.P.) and at his “Alma Mater” the Academy of San Carlos for over 30 years. At this moment, Luis Palomares is a retired Art Professor dedicating all of his time to produce Art. Luis Palomares for over 40 years has exhibited his works in Mexico, Central America, Europe and the United States in over 100 collective exhibits.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2008
State Award of the Arts "Eréndira" 2008. Ocampo Theater, Morelia, Mich.

2007
Kentucky Colonel: Recogniti...

Since 1974 Luis Palomares has 72 individual exhibitions and has participated in more than one hundred collective exhibits including “Exhibition of Contemporary Mexican Artists” in Novotel London England in 1985. He has also exhibited his work in “Presence of Mexican Art” in the Cultural Center at the Madrid Villa in Spain.

These are the last and most important exhibitions, you can find the complete list at his homepage.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS:

2016
Luis Palomares "Tribute 70 Years Artistic Trajectory" UAEM Culture House in Tlalpan, Mexico City.

2015
“Spontaneities”, University cultural center “House of diligences”,Toluca, Edo. de México.

2013
“Parallels”, Morelia’s Digital Poliforum, Morelia, Mich.

2012
“Essence of Reality, 65 Years of Plastic Work”, Cultural Center “Clavijero”, Morelia, Mich.

2010
“Dashes of freedom”, University Gallery of the Autonomous University of Mexico State. Toluca, México.

“Reflections”, Contemporary Art Museum “Alfredo Zalce”, Morelia, Mich.

“Reflections”, Regional Center for the Arts, Zamora, Mich.

2008
“Retrospective by Luis Palomares 1955 – 2008”, Regional Center for the Arts, Zamora, Mich.

“Retrospective of Luis Palomares”, Honorable City, Council of Zinapécu...