“Experimental landscape”, Antonio Murado, abstract expressionism, 1993 - Contemporary Art
Signed in Madrid in 1993, this work by Antonio José Murado synthesizes the aspects of abstract expressionism, a trend to which the artist would be related during the decade of the nineties. It represents a landscape tending toward abstraction, in which the color green stands out, a tone used largely by the painter during that season. By renouncing the material, the artist will give rise to works characterized by pictorial experimentation and play with representation; blurring the limits between the pictorial space and the image, with subtle and veiled results that exude dreaminess and romanticism.
Since 1990, his production is based on large-format works that combine figuration and landscaping, which increasingly tend towards abstraction. His work is characterized by pictorial experimentation, with frequent play between abstraction and figuration since, as the author himself points out: «I have always thought that there is not much difference between the abstract and the figurative and I do not believe that that is a very accurate classification for the painting. It seems to me that everything is abstract and everything is figurative. My new paintings, in particular, are a mix of both things. The theme is abstract and the treatment is figurative in the sense that there is not the representation of a reality, but rather the realization of a reality. I have never wanted to represent an image already seen. In my work I try to propose an investigation of virtual space..."
Abstract art is characterized by representing concepts abstracted from reality or independent of what is recognizable by the senses, through freedom, irrationality and diversity of shapes, lines and colors. It is a subjective art that does not accurately or figuratively represent the visual reality perceived by human beings. It emerged around 1900 and was the axis of modern art that encompassed various artistic movements, such as cubism, surrealism and De Stijl. Abstract art allows the generation of different interpretations or points of view depending on the recipient because it does not seek to achieve perfection of the line or credible compositions. It is considered an art that reaches another dimension of morality and spirituality, because it expresses emotions and sensations separate from logic and objectivity.
Antonio Murado recognizes himself as a perfectionist and obsessive in his work, something that his works reveal, and although several books have been written about him, for him personally, the best is the one written by the art historian María de la Vega . It is the result of many conversations between the two, therefore, it is a very personal work.
Without a doubt, Murado is one of the Spanish painters with the greatest international projection. Proof of this are the numerous occasions on which he was awarded and the reach obtained by his works, many of them exhibited in important artistic spaces and galleries in Holland, Belgium, Australia, Portugal, Austria, New Zealand, Canada, South America or the United States.
Biography
Antonio José Murado López was born in 1964 in Lugo into a family of artists: his father was a painter and filmmaker, his mother a cartoonist, and his brother is a writer (Miguel Anxo Murado); Therefore, from a very young age, he developed his artistic interests. In 1985 he showed his first collective works and, just two years later, his first individual show, at the Sargadelos Gallery in Santiago de Compostela.
He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca in 1988. He obtained a scholarship to the Current Art Workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid together with the artist Juan Navarro Baldeweg. In 1987 he received the Manuel Colmeiro scholarship from the Xunta de Galicia, three years later the Banesto Scholarship and the Unión Fenosa Artistic Creation Scholarship in 1995. Thanks to his achievements, in 1996 he was able to move to New York and enter the Cooper Union School. Since then, he has lived and worked in New York, although before moving to the United States, he opened the Zú exhibition hall in Lugo in 1987, which for two years held exhibitions of young Spanish and Austrian artists in exchange with the Viennese gallery Cult. The group that Murado forms together with the artists Thomas Jocher, Michael Haas and Antonio Fernández González also has the same name, Zú.
A Galician artist living in New York since 1996, Antonio Murado's work is halfway between abstraction and the classic conception of landscape, which seeks not so much to reflect nature as to create a new one.
The expressionist figuration of his beginnings gives way, in the nineties, to works characterized by pictorial experimentation and play with representation; blurs the boundaries between the pictorial space and the image, with subtle and veiled results that exude dreaminess and romanticism. The game between figuration and abstraction is common, because in his opinion: “Everything is abstract and figurative at the same time.” In his painting, generally large format and with a serial vocation, he establishes a subtle conceptual game between media and ideas, and renounces matter; He himself states: “I don't like the subject at all. The large setting of the painting is a flat surface that creates the illusion of space.” He is greatly attracted to the transparency of the paint.
Dimensions: 65 x 65 x 2 cm.
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