Antonio Sanz de la Fuente
Burgos, Spain, 1951-2013
Abstract painter trained at the San Fernando Higher School of Fine Arts, expanding his knowledge and technique in Maastricht (Netherlands) and graduating in Fine Arts in Madrid.
He was also Professor of Plastic Arts and Design at the School of Art of Burgos, alternating this professional facet as Professor of Artistic Drawing-Color with the pictorial and also the director of the center.
His works were technically defined by the use of diverse materials and disciplines: from oil on linen to large-scale works, to photographic support, paper, newspaper clippings that make up small collages and, in its last stage, methacrylate, wood and even lead superimposed on the canvas in different sizes and thicknesses, evolving in a constant search for balance through play between volumes and gaps.
Endless horizontal strokes shaped the artist's pictorial language. In a first time the reference were drawings of a symbolic realism that little has been left behind in a constant evolution. Sanz de la Fuente did not intend to tell anything specific in his paintings, however, he tried to place the viewer before them and that this produced feelings of free understanding. In some of his works there is a junction with the landscape, especially urban, with clear references to the outside environment and also to the intimate environment.
Individual expositions
1978
Studium Gallery. Valladolid
Vermeer Gallery. Logroño
Mainel Gallery. Burgos.
1979
Provincial Savings Bank. Vitoria
Novart Gallery. Madrid.
1980
Simancas Gallery. Santander
Savings Bank and Monte de Piedad. Lion.
1981
Savings Bank of Zaragoza, Aragon and Rioja. Saragossa
Berruet Gallery. Logroño
1982
Municipal Savings Bank. Burgos.
1983
Berruet Gallery. Logroño
1984
Seiquer Gallery. Madrid.
1985
Castilla Gallery. Valladolid
1986
Mainel Gallery. Burgos.
1987
Berruet Gallery. Logroño
1989
Zurbarán Gallery. Santander
1990
Hall of the Consulate of the Sea. Provincial Council. Burgos.
1993
Varrón Gallery. Salamanca.
1994
Mainel Gallery. Burgos.
1995
Berta Belaza Gallery. Bilbao
1997
The Brocense Room. Provincial Council. Cáceres
1998
Caja de Burgos Space. Burgos.
2000
Montehermoso Cultural Center. Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council.
2005
Marita Segovia Gallery. Madrid.
2006
Association of Surveyors and Technical Architects of Burgos.
2008
Felisa Navarro Gallery. Vitoria-Gasteiz.
2009
Burgos Museum. Burgos
2010
Marita Segovia Gallery. Madrid
2014
Torreón Fortea. Saragossa
Center of Art and Nature CDAN-Buelas Foundation. Huesca
2015
Marita Segovia Gallery. Madrid
2017 C
aja de Burgos Art Center, CAB. Burgos
Santa Maria Arch, Burgos
Museums and collections
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Madrid
Caja de Burgos Contemporary Art Collection.
El Brocense Collection. Provincial Council of Cáceres
Iberecuestre Collection. Madrid
Toledo and Associates Collection. Madrid
Wellington Foundation Collection. Madrid
COAAT Collection. Burgos
Burgos Museum.
Burgos City Hall Collection.
Logroño City Hall Collection.
Collection of the Provincial Council of Palencia.
Collections of the municipalities of Onteniente, Vall de Uxó and Novelda.
Collection of Contemporary Art of the Junta de Castilla y León.
Collection of the Provincial Council of Jaén.
Caja de Burgos Collection.
