Collection: Pablo Palazuelo

Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid, 1915-2007) is one of the international leaders of Spanish abstract art from the second half of the 20th century. His paintings, sculptures, and prints (including his forays into poetry and art theory) must be understood as a coherent whole.

Number, drawing, line, plane, space, and color are essential elements of his creation, serving geometry. Not in vain, the Madrid-born master He studied architecture and embraced painting without abandoning a deep curiosity for ancient philosophy. –especially the pre-Socratics–, contemporary physics, as well as hermetic and oriental thought, readings that accompanied him until the end of his life.

With the Pythagoreans he shared the idea that Mathematics constitutes the language of Nature and the lack of knowledge of it leads to the inability to know its beauty.
“The operation of points, lines, surfaces and colors –Palazuelo declared in 1976– – it is long, slow, tortuous, full of errors, blindness, doubts, anguish and danger, but there is also, throughout it, peace, balance, deep satisfaction, pleasure and exhilarating freedom, because it is about encoding the convergence of the painter's affection with the feeling of nature."

Palazuelo's production is therefore an extension of his abstract creation. but by other means, which unfolded from the flatness of paper or canvas to configure the spaces of his sculptures and architectures.