After exposure in the Great Hayatt of Quatar and Hong Kong, Alfredo Palmero returned to Barcelona to present “and Harlequins Meninas” the exhibition that has triumphed around the world.
Artists are born not made, and Alfredo Palmero is a clear example. At home as a young man breathed art. Born into a family of artists, from an early age he discovered the passion and dedication with which his grandfather understood art and painting.
Grandson and grandfather shared many hours together in this relationship began to fall in love Alfredo Palmero painting. In his own words, explains that his grandfather was born paintings, preparing fabrics and colors, exhibitions … united and long conversations about the painters and their works. “And above all the smell, the smell of oil paint and turpentine that gets in your blood and you have to paint. At that time know that there is no return “
Authors such as Velázquez, Picasso and Klee were marking his training as an artist and influenced his work throughout the years.
Alfredo Palmero has behind two private museums in Spain. One located in the heart of La Mancha, Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real) which has a private collection of over 1000 works. And the second is based in Barcelona Palmero Museum located in a fifteenth century farmhouse historic monument, located in the urban area of the city.
Throughout his career has received numerous letters from the P ríncipes of Asturias, the Presidents of various communities like Esperanza Aguirre and José Montilla, President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Duchess of Alba.They recognize Palmero as an ambassador of Spanish contemporary art and appreciate your art and its important work to publicize a new facet of Spain in the world.
In Spain and Europe, Alfredo Palmero exhibitions are always a great success and have different personalities collections acquired by royalty and the Duchess of Alba or the private collection of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands or the one with the Queen Fabiola of Belgium , and even HM the King Juan Carlos and his son Prince Felipe has posed for him calling his art great and amazing.
In this exhibition, which now comes to Barcelona, after winning Quatar and Hong Kong, we enjoy one of their most complete and representative collections. The series “Meninas”, Inspired by Velázquez, are in fact the glorification of women and nature, mother earth, as sources of life. Together with them we can also see the collection “Harlequins” in which the artist illustrates the ambiguous duality of the human condition and the artist himself.
The exosición will be held at the Art Gallery on Calle Mallorca 253 Subex from 25 October to on November 12, 2011.
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