Miguel Rodríguez-Acosta

The exhibition gathers over half of a hundred pieces made by the artist during the last twenty years, including paintings, engravings and other works on paper of different formats. It is about a group that summarises the works of the last artistic stage of Miguel Rodríguez-Acosta, of an abstract character and notable chromatic lyricism, very different from his previous work.

After intensely dedicated himself, in his youth, to a type of painting that could be described as classic figures and having recieved official honours such as the First Medal of the Bellas Artes National Exhibition in 1960, Miguel Rodríguez-Acosta stopped painting in 1965. After a decade of no activity in this field, he again undertook studio work through engravings, in which he found a new plastic language and led him to the abstract. From the eighties, Miguel Rodríguez-Acosta re-started his picture works with a style which can be classified under the "new abstract" movement, which finds ist roots in the American abstract expressionism and in the impressionist abstractions of the last works of Monet. But we also find in his pictures constant and vague suggestions of a more immediate environment: that of the Alhambra, the Albaycín or the Vega from Granada.

Miguel Rodríguez-Acosta was born in 1927 in Granada, where he lives at present. In 1982 he obtained the Engravings National Price and has been a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando) since 1986.

The catalogue will have texts from María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco, commissioner of the exhibition and from Victor Nieto Alcaide, amongst others.