exposiciones

Presentation

Graduate in Pictorial Procedures from ESDA Llotja, a school of higher education in Art and Design in Barcelona. Studies at the Escuela Internacional de Pintura Mural Contemporánea (International School of Contemporary Mural Painting), Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona).

“My work moves between reality, fiction and evasion and involves a search for what lies hidden in the imagination, nature and matter, in reality”.

 

Exhibitions (Selection)

 

1973

Solo exhibition: 

Prócer Gallery, Barcelona

Group exhibitions:

XII Joan Miró International Drawing Prize, Barcelona

I Rosa Alarcón Exhibition of Spanish-speaking Artists, Cumaná (Venezuela)

Juan Lovera Experimental School of Plastic Arts, San Fernando de Apure (Venezuela)

 

1974

Solo exhibition: 

Centro de Arte Joven Gallery, Barcelona.

Group exhibitions:

XII Joan Miró International Drawing Prize, Barcelona

II Visual Arts Exhibition of Young Spanish-Speaking Artists, Colombian Institute of Culture, Sala Gregorio Vázquez, Bogotá (Colombia)

XXVII Fine Arts Exhibition, Badalona City Council

 

1975

Group exhibition:

XIV Martorell Art Fair, Barcelona - Armando Reveron Gallery, San Fernando de Apure (Venezuela)

 

 

 

1976

Solo exhibitions:

Covarsi Art Fair, Arenys de Mar (Barcelona) 

Barra de Ferro Gallery, Barcelona

Group exhibition:

ARTEXPO-76, Barcelona

 

1977

Solo exhibition:

Ausaga Art Gallery, León

Group exhibitions:

XVI Joan Miró International Drawing Prize, Barcelona

Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, Pamplona

Antonio del Rincón National Drawing Prize, Guadalajara (Spain)

Artists of Hispanoamerica, Barinas (Venezuela)

Totem Art Gallery, Barcelona

 

1978

Solo exhibitions:

French Institute of Barcelona

L'Estudi Tretze Gallery, Barcelona

Group exhibitions:

III Antonio del Rincón International Drawing Fair, Guadalajara

Kandinski Gallery (consigned work), Madrid

 

1979

Solo exhibitions:

Attica Gallery, Barcelona

Caja de Ahorros Municipal, Burgos

Obra Cultural Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de León, León

 

1980

Solo exhibition:

Skira Gallery, Madrid

Group exhibition:

Momento 4 International Fair, Barcelona

 

1981

Group exhibitions:

Palau de la Virreina, Annobón Collective, Barcelona.

“One Hundred Artists for a Centenary”: Homage to Picasso, Skira Gallery, Madrid

“One Hundred Artists for a Centenary”: Homage to Picasso, Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Guipúzcoa, San Sebastián

“One Hundred Artists for a Centenary”: Homage to Picasso, Fray Bernardino de Sahagún institution, León

Racó D'Art, Cabrils (Barcelona)

ARTEDER 81, Contemporary Art Fair, Bilbao

 

1982

ARCO Contemporary Art, Brosolí Gallery, Madrid

 

1983

ARCO Contemporary Art, Brosolí Gallery, Madrid

 

1984

Group exhibition:

Le Salon des Nations à Paris, Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Paris

 

1987

Solo exhibition:

Grup Sal'Art Gallery, Barcelona

Group exhibition:

María Calas Art Gallery, Miami (Florida, United States)

 

1988

Portfolio of engravings, Ambit Gallery, Barcelona

 

1989

Illustrations, cover art and poster production

 

1990/95

"Serie Comensales" works on paper and canvas (mixed media)

 

1995

Group exhibition:

Seoul Vector, Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul (Korea)

 

1995/2002

Work with figuration in the expressionist-surrealist concept.

 

2002/2005

Works on the sea; works on paper, canvas and wood (mixed media)

Works in different collections in Austria, France, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, Venezuela, Colombia and USA.

 

2005-2012

Mixed media works

Faces and polyptychs

 

2016

Solo exhibition:

“Rastros humanos” (Human Traces), Valldoreix City Hall Gallery, Barcelona.

 

 

 Reviews (Selection)

 

... In these pieces we are offered nothing but a happy sequence of rhythms, a strict elegance of intonations and a clear arrangement of spaces and chromatic keys; but it is enough, enough to note a sensibility, at once restrained and free, for these works to be highly suggestive... RAFAEL SANTOS TORROELLA

 

...Stylised paintings and drawings; outlines of gentle brushstrokes that distort, blur, become fleeting forms, evanescent, hybrid, phantasmagoric, disturbing atmosphere against which everything contracts, struggles, expands and tenses in a lacerating struggle, an attempt to escape through the open window: expression, space, longed-for liberation... JOSEP VALLÉS ROVIRA

 

...His paintings respond to a personal and sincere creativity and to a study of light and space. This combination gives rise to imprecise forms in soft colours and transparencies that gravitate in the space like strange organisms in transformation... MERCEDES LAZO

 

...Luis F. Conde did not follow the tired path of “work well done”, instead taking the path of complete and absolute professional correction, the rough path that aims to create art that emerges from the artist fully formed and that is made manifest, shaped to the rhythm of the gesture that admits no regrets nor corrections... ARNAU PUIG

 

...Before the demonstration of gestural purity, of graphic efficiency, of interrelation, one must remember and extend some of the precepts of the master D'Ors on the forms that fly and the forms that weigh, adding for this precise case the communicative forms, the dialoguing forms, the forms of lyrical persuasion... VICTORIAN CREMER

 

... in the “Estudi Tretze”, Luis F. Conde exhibits a work of a gestural character, upbeat in its rhythms and expressed in a highly personal way ... FRANCESC GALÍ

 

...The congratulations come not because every “avant-garde” approach must be defended at all costs, because many cases of incapacity are hidden in these types of works, but because Conde operates at a level of remarkable quality. Delicate colours crafted through suggestive brushstrokes define fleeting forms, transparent organisms, which normally populate or leave an enclosed space... ANTONIO GAMONEDA

 

... The spectator believes they see, or imagine, a dramatic constant as a nexus of this dualism. With a certain sense of inert space, the artist manages to create an atmosphere of tension that becomes almost painfully lyrical around these shapes, not entirely unformed... AGUSTÍ ABRIL

 

... On the other hand, the author is assisted by a fertile imagination like we have rarely seen; an imagination, on the other hand, that he knows how to elevate to the category of exquisite art in each piece. In Luis F. Conde, colour speaks from the depths of a repertoire of feelings... ALFONSO SALGADO

 

...To our modest understanding, the mixed media technique is fully adapted to his lyrical, loving, dreamlike language, of spontaneous appearance and meditated mental lucubration. His excellent drawings have also drawn our attention... MARIA TERESA CASANELLES

 

Bibliography

 

El Noticiero Universal, 16/1/73, pg. 39, by Rafael Santos Torruella

Tele-Exprés, 24/1/73, by Josep Vallés Rovira

El Tiempo, Bogota, 17/11/74

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