"Compositions", Engraving Proof of Author, 3/4, Jorge del Castillo (Pontevedra, 1933)

"Compositions", Engraving Proof of Author, 3/4, Jorge del Castillo (Pontevedra, 1933)
Engraving proof of author 3/4 with repaints by hand. Engraved measurements: 69 x 96 cm. From a family that emigrated to Argentina, Castillo returned to Europe in 1957. After passing through Vigo, he settled in Madrid, where he soon came into contact with the art critic José María Moreno Galván, who admired his work and introduced him to Madrid's artistic circles. . In 1958 he began to sell his drawings at the Biosca gallery, and the painter Antonio Saura himself bought several of them. The following year he exhibits his works on paper and watercolors at the Altamira gallery in Madrid. Little by little he will opt for the engraving technique, which will finally be his main means of expression, although he will alternate it with painting. In 1960 he is selected for the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. From then on he will exhibit his work internationally, in galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Lisbon, Turin, Hannover, Dusseldorf and Geneva. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1976, and in 1970 he had a solo exhibition at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the first major exhibition dedicated, in a museum, to a specific period of his career. She won prizes such as the International Drawing (1964) and Painting (1975) of Darmstadt, the City of Pontevedra (1994), and the Live Culture of Plastic Arts (2006). He currently resides and works in Ibiza. You can see the work of Jorge Castillo at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, the Juan March Foundation, the National Galleries in Edinburgh and Berlin, the Museums of Modern Art in San Francisco and Vitoria, the Kunsthalle in Bremen, the Albertina in Vienna, the National Library of Spain and the Guggenheim in New York,