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

Original lithograph by Fernando Bellver (*)
Thick cotton paper support (220 g)
Limited edition of 500 copies (un-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 portfolio, and is offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be sent with a tracking number as a certified delivery.

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

(*) A highly dedicated artist, Bellver treats each of his works as a piece of his dreams, his ideals, his vision of the world and the history of art, forcing us to engage in a dialogue with each work in order to discover himself (personal nudity through art). Driven by the urge to recreate rather than to create in the traditional sense, he remains another kind of illusion, since the result of his alliance of elements or themes from different cultures or eras that manage to merge gives rise to the birth of a new signifier.
With an ironic character, and dadaist at times, he surprisingly combines elements belonging to opposing iconographies, for example depicting leaders of the Cuban revolution as if they were a stained-glass window, typical of Catholic imagery (Cuban Saints series). His demystifying proposals imply a deep exercise in observation, from which he shows us his own thinking in the background, achieving his goal of defining art, reality, and self.
He trained in Madrid and extended his studies in Oslo thanks to a scholarship. He began his career in the 1980s, celebrating exhibitions in Madrid galleries such as Nolde or Tórculo. By these years he also participated in important fairs such as ARCO. He was invited to the Impact Art Festival in Kyoto, and as a printmaking professor at the University of Austin, USA. He continues to celebrate exhibitions, both in Spain and in Hungary, Norway, France, England, Taiwan, the United States, etc. Fully internationally recognized, Bellver has exhibited his work all over 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 at the Calcografía Nacional.
He is represented in the MNCA Reina Sofía, the ICO Collection, the Conde Duque Center in Madrid, the Rashid Collection of Alexandria, the National Library, the Marcelino Botín Foundation, the Cairo and Jaén Museums of Contemporary Art, the Granada Fine Arts Museum, New York University, the Calcografía Nacional, the BBVA, Juan March and Chase Manhattan Bank collections, and the Diputación de Sevilla, among other collections.