LUÍS CARUNCHO (A Coruña, 1.929- Madrid, 2016)
He spends his childhood in his hometown and then moves to Madrid once the civil war is over. Immediately, due to his father’s work, he establishes contact with great artists such as Vaquero Palacios and José Caballero. His ingenuity takes him to build small objects in which architecture and plastic art are identified. He draws at the School of Arts and Crafts and in the Circle of Fine Arts and travels all over Europe, at the same time as he starts his studies in architecture. While he is studying this branch, he travels around Europe again and stays for long seasons in Paris, where he studies the most advanced plastic movements. Back in Madrid, he gets professionally linked with the Council of the capital, where he held positions of high responsibility in the cultural field, specifically the management of the Conde Duque Centre. His particular plastic conception leads him to participate in activities that reunite painting, architecture and sculpture in murals, ornamentation and setting of spaces in different places, from commercial areas to Spanish embassies abroad. His creative zeal has no limits, he even makes stained glass windows and graphic work that achieve a great diffusion. His exhibitions take place in Spain and abroad; he is one of the most appreciate Spanish artists in Paris, since the famous gallerist André Urban has been spreading his work. He won important awards, such as the Anaya Publishing House and the L’Oréal, which confirmed his international fame since he had already exhibited in several South American cities. His passion for the dissemination of art led him to create and to manage the Kandinsky Gallery in Madrid, an exponent of the avant-garde as well as the best and most advanced movements in international contemporary art. He is represented in many museums, including those in Galicia, the Contemporary Art Museum in Madrid, etc. His most representative work is based on the concepts of Mondrian and Malevich, even tough in the end the inevitable coldness of these great artists is surpassed and concealed by Caruncho with a latent baroque style. His identification with the master Palazuelo is undeniable but it is also true that Caruncho’s work has been fundamental for many other Spanish artists to find their own way of expression. Critics from all over the worlds were interested in his work, as well as great poets who, through their verses, expressed the judgment that an unmistakable, personal plastic art, dominated by geometry and cleanliness, deserved.
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