| Fernando Gutierrez De Velasco |
 | Biography: Biography
Born in 1938 in Bilbao (Vizcaya), he's been student of the Picassiana school of Juan Mirò. His beginnings connect him tightly with the Ortega painter.
He began with him painting for the roads of Vizcaya.
Social realism to demonstration of the own solidarity with the miners of the Asturie.
That induced him, in the 1964, to move to Paris where he still worked in Ortega's study.
Past definitely in Italy, he improved his studies to the academy of Brera under the guide of Master Usellini.
Very numerous the exhibitions, the contests, the prizes which he has participated, always achieve the most prestigious recognitions.
His artistic formation, even if sensitive to the social realism of Ortega, goes back to Juan Mirò's stock. He's therefore an artist that extends to transfigure the visual elements in virtue of the color and the light to reach a fantastic vision in which reality engages a new dimension and it's confused with the dream.
Also very interesting his technique researches that invest also the graphics and sculpture fields, for which his art has aroused lively curiosity in critical circles too, earning the attention of many accredited competent.
The surrealism of Juan Mirò and the realism of Ortega, which is added the suggestion practiced on the artist by the mighty realistic-social symbology of Siqueires, beside who he worked after a first political escape from Spain, constitute the base on which has been built, in manner quite autonomous, the painting of Gutierrez De Velasco Fernando.
The mentioned components are easily recognizable in his art, but the creative inspiration of our master has projected them in quite unpublished directions, on the other hand, they reveal the insatiability of his searches because they never rest on an initial or a formula, but they appear prey of a continuous transfiguration with the intent of make imagination could space in more and more vast and unpredictable fields.
Of course, to realize similar intents, it is necessary to possess an inexhaustible creative inspiration and it is quite this characteristic that we find, in manner as never evident, in the painting of the Spanish exile become Italian for election.
The intensity of his color is equal to the unforeseeability of his intuitions, that mainly places trust in the dream and in the memory to stimulate evocations from which the existential contradictions derive a their own puzzling coherence of style. Country: Italy Birthyear: 1938 Awards: 1966
Gold Medal of the President Of The Italian Republic at the City Prize in Recanati
Gold Medal at the Sassoferrato Prize
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1967
The Acquires Prize at "Small Europe"
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1970
Participated "Aerial Cruise of the Italian Painters in Canada", Montreal
1° Contest of Painting "Olimpia" Cultural Circle "F. De Sanctis", Milan
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1971
Gold Medal of "Quadrato": Invited at the Third International Biennial of Sacred Art, Sora
Season 1971 from Funi to Fontana with Rossi, Frai, Labò, Terruso, Gutiérrez, Crippa, Scanavino, Cusumano, Keizo, series of Collective in Italy
Invited "Biennial of United Europe Painting" Bergamo
Winning "Exhibition of the Camelie" Globarte, Milan
Present for invitation "Panorama de la Peinture Italienne" at the gallery "Lettres et Artes" in Nice
Presented like space painter at the International Dateline Hotel, Niku'Alofa, Tonga
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1972
Named Academic Painter and Sculptor of the Tiberina Academy, Institute of University Culture and of Superior Studies
Invited at the "Les Editions de la Revue modern", Paris
Invited by Tourism Assessorship, Milan. Party of the "Naviglio": collective Gallery of Modern Art "Il Cerchio," Milan
Invited "Biennal D'Arte Italienne 1972," Paris
Invited Gallery "Les lettres et les Arts" in Menton
4th National Review of Painting "Preimio Sant'Ambroeus" Winning Ambrogino silver medal of the "Bottega D'Arte Sant'Ambroeus" in Milan
Invited "International Exhibition of Basilea Art": plates and varied "Il Pentacolo", Milan.
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1973
Invited "Colosseum prize 1973", Rome
"Review of Contemporary Art" Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik ex-Jugoslavia
Invited "Il Tabernacolo in Rome"
2nd Exhibition "Impressions of a trip". Cultural trip to Malta
Invited 2nd Prize of International Painting at Lago Maggiore "Homage to Gianfilippo Usellini"
Invited "3rd National Contest of Painting City of Parma"
Winning with dipoloma and medal City of Viareggio "Centenary of the Carnival"
3rd National Prize of Painting Colors in the winter
Winning with diploma and plate of Special signaling 2nd edition of the International Prize of Painting "Il Pavone D'Oro 1973"
Winning 3rd Prize at the 1st International Contest of Painting "La Tavolozza D'Oro Marcona 73", Milan.
Participated the first extemporaneous contest of painting "Luna Park permanente Varesine, Milan": Gallery "Room of the Muses", Milan
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1974
Personal exhibition to the Lascaux Gallery in Brugherio
1st Absolute Prize "Presences of the '74" in the National Museum of the Science and of the Technique in Milan, succession by an exhibition "Foreign to Milan"
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1977
Special prize "Il Trofeo Internazionale Raffaello" Museum of the Science and of the Technique, Milan
"La Palma d'oro 1977" City of Sanremo and Plate European Community A.C.
Named Master of Art at the Academy of Superior Studies "Minerva", Geneva
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1978
Prix de Peinture Ville de Fecamp
The Galerie "La Poterie" with exhibition
Gold Medal at Cesano Maderno
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1981
Winning at the Museum of Modern Art at S. Givanni Bono in Cesena
Biennial of Monza (Milan) winning with the "Iron Crown"
Cavalletto d'Oro in Milan
Trophy "Selene Art 1981," 1st Prize
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1982
1st International Prize "Italian Blue Athletes"
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1994
Personal Exhibition at Valeggio Sul Mincio, Mantua
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In 1982 the master has retired to private life participating more and more rarely to exhibitions or contests.
In 1983 he's moved to Goito (Mantua) where he's continued his artistic studies and, for request of many companies of insurance and collectors, he's realized varied copies of old masters. Media: mixed media Style: abstract Subjects: light and color |