ABOUT THE ARTIST Mariano de Blas (Madrid, 1958) An artist of great importance on the current Spanish scene, he graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University in 1980 with an Extraordinary Career Award. In 1982, he received a Fulbright scholarship that allowed him to study for a Master's Degree in Fine Arts at Parsons School in New York. His work has been exhibited in London, Stuttgart and New York, and he has participated in more than one hundred collective exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work, with its calm material content, is similar to that of Fega or Patiño, especially in the establishment of an elaborate pictorial scene in which accidents occur and in which links of plastic language are established between abstraction and figuration. Alternating mixed techniques and, above all, using collage profusely, De Blas seeks to alternate languages through simulation, obtaining effects of warm transparencies in the harmonious succession of deconstructed structures. He is currently a professor in the painting department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid. His solo exhibitions at the Detursa Gallery in Madrid are particularly noteworthy.