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<tr> <td valign="top" class="bloc_d"><p><strong>Painting, painting, painting....</strong></p> <p> Surrounded by it in the family studio with my grandfather ever since I was small , I watched pictures be created, canvases and colors made ready, exhibitions..and long conversations about painters and their works. And above all that smell, that smell of oil and turpentine, that gets in your blood and makes you paint. And there is no going back.

My training as an artist, very marked by the figure of painters -- Velázquez Picasso, Klee--more than by styles or trends, explains part of my work. The series "Meninas", inspired by Velázquez, are really an exaltation of Woman and Nature--Mother Earth--as origins of life. The Harlequins are the ambiguous duality of the human condition, of the artist himself.
The block "My Other Paintings" is made up of pictures marked by the freedom to shift styles, "isms" and themes, giving clear lead to the expressiveness of colour and line. And the drawings... (I call them "frameworks") represent a section of special importance. The drawing never lies--it's "pure truth", the framework that will support--or not--what comes next.

Alfredo Palmero

 
Personal Expositions

Barcelona:

1991-1992 Galería Grifé y Escoda
1993-1997 Galería Augusta
1998-1999 Galería Mayte Muñoz
2000-2002 Galería Art Diagonal
2003 Bassols Art Gallery
2004 Hotel Gallery
2005 Galería de Arte Mayte Muñoz

Permanent exposition at the Palmero Museum of Barcelona

Madrid:
1991-1993 Galería de Arte Serrano 19
1994-2001 Galería de Arte Herraíz
2002-2005 Galería de Arte Altea

Bilbao:
1994-1996,1998,2000,2002,2004 Galería de Arte Versalles

London:
1992,1994,1996: Mistral Galleríes

Andorra:
1995: Galería de Andor Art
2000: Galería Parc

Marbella:
1998: Casino de Marbella

Brussels:
1997,1998,2002  Galerie Alfican

Knokke-Heist (Belgium):
1997 North Sea Gallery

Seville
1992 Sala de Arte Sorolla

Lisbon:
1996Galerías de Sesimbra

Gerona:
1998-2005 Hotel Carlemany
2007 Galería El Claustre

Granollers:
2007 Galería Quatre

Segovia:
2006 Exposition at el Torreón de Lozóya. Sponsored by CAJA SEGOVIA

Albacete:
2006 Great Painters of Castilla la Mancha Exhibition, (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of Castilla la Mancha.

Gerona:
2002 Castell d¨Aro  Bonnart
Exposición de Artistas Catalanes [Exposition of Catalan Artists]

Hong Kong

2008 Sofia Gaspar, Spanish Contemporary Art

USA

2006-2008 Kennebeck Fine Art LLC

Signed agreement with the Museo del Quijote in Ciudad Real, assignment of 12 oils.

Permanent exposition at the Museos Palmero of Barcelona and Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real)
 
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• Alfredo Palmero is now the third generation of a line of artists that began with his grandfather, Maestro Palmero, with whom he shared his name and a great love of painting.
From his grandfather he learned the academic basis and realistic composition to develop a style of his own. His harlequins are famous, a metaphor for the artist himself and a clear homage to the Picassan avant-garde, or his particular meninas (young maids in waiting), a personal reinterpretation of those of Velázquez. He gives his characters looks that implore directly to the spectator, figures that form part of surrealistic surroundings.
Departing from academic drawing, intertwining tradition with the contemporary, the works of Alfredo Palmero rise up in current remains from a lineage committed to the pallet.
Classicism and the contemporary form a bipolar work which the author handles with naturalness and where his personal vision of painting excels.

 

 

  













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