Miguel Galanda (1951) - Cabecitas negras

Little Black Heads. 2000. Miguel Galanda.
Oil on canvas. 35 x 27 cm.
Signed in the lower right corner and on the back of the canvas.
Mounted on a stretcher. Unframed.
Certificate of authenticity: none

Miguel Galanda (Caspe, Zaragoza, 1951) holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, where he also studied Fine Arts. In 1984 he moves to Madrid. Belonging to the so-called Generation of the 80s, in his painting he defends a return to matter, to the centrality of the figure and, as a consequence, to the condition of human tragedy at the essential point of the pictorial vision.

He has exhibited his work at Galerie Briggitte Schenk (Cologne), Galería AAM (Rome) or the Madrid-based Juana Mordó, and his works are part of collections of institutions such as Banco Bilbao Vizcaya or the Círculo de Bellas Artes. He is the author of the scenography for Oda a Napoleón by Arnold Schönberg and Cuatro canciones serias by Johannes Brahms, productions that were performed in July 2009 at the CBA. In October 2009 he inaugurates an exhibition at The Gabarron Foundation in New York.