Fernando Bellver - BELLVER - Lithographic print ** Handsigned **

Original lithograph by Fernando Bellver (*)
Support: thick cotton rag paper (220g)
Limited edition of 500 copies (not numbered)
Hand-signed by the artist.

- Sheet dimensions: 70 x 48.5 cm
- Year: 2010
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and is therefore offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The artwork will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be sent with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the full value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) A dedicated artist, Bellver seeks with each of his works to show a piece of his dreams, his ideals, his vision of the world and of the history of art, obliging us to engage in a dialogue with each work with the purpose of revealing oneself (personal nakedness through art). Driven by a desire to recreate rather than to create in the traditional sense, he remains no less a mere façade, since the result of his alliance of various elements or themes from different cultures or eras that manage to fuse gives rise to the birth of a new signifier.
With an ironic and at times Dadaist character, he surprisingly combines elements belonging to opposing iconographies, for example representing leaders of the Cuban Revolution in the style of a stained-glass window, typical of Catholic imagery (Cuban Saint series). His demystifying proposals imply a deep exercise of observation, from which he reveals his own thoughts in the background, achieving his aim of defining art, reality and the self.
He trained in Madrid and broadened his studies in Oslo thanks to a scholarship. He began his career in the 1980s, staging exhibitions in Madrid galleries such as Nolde or Tórculo. By these years he also participated in major fairs such as ARCO. He was invited to the Impact Art Festival in Kyoto, and as an engraving professor at the University of Austin, USA. He continues to hold exhibitions, both in Spain and in Hungary, Norway, France, England, Taiwan, the United States, etc. Fully internationally recognized, Bellver has exhibited his work around the world.
In the mid-1990s he won the Gold Medal for engraving at the Alexandria Biennale, and he served on the jury of the National Engraving Prize of the Calcografía Nacional.
He is represented in the MNCA Reina Sofía, the ICO Collection, the Centro Conde Duque in Madrid, the Rashid Collection of Alexandria, the National Library, the Marcelino Botín Foundation, the Cairo and Jaén Museums of Contemporary Art, the Granada Museum of Fine Arts, New York University, the Calcografía Nacional, the BBVA, the Juan March Foundation and Chase Manhattan Bank, and the Diputación de Sevilla, among other collections.