UNTIL SUNDAY 1/12
MuVIM. Quevedo, 10
Manolo Millares was one of the prominent members of that ephemeral (but influential) Group the step, Born in Madrid in the 1950's with the aim of revitalizing postwar Spanish art, marked by the Franco regime, obtuse and repressed. In this group were artists from all over the state, With Rafael Canogar, Antonio Saura, L’Alacantina Juana French and Canari Manolo Millares, Who saw his international projection fired after participating in the Venice Biennale of 1958. The exhibition Manolo Millares. About fifty begins by showing its canary pictograms, born of research on the world of aboriginal of the Islands and their admiration for Joan Miró or Paul Klee. Already at this stage begins to incorporate materials like wood, Tessel·les I Arpillera, the material that would become central in its artistic trajectory. Millares would end up burning, tear, recosing and wrinkling the harpillera of a thousand different ways, creating black and white works he called "homunculos". Already set in Madrid, impregnated with the influences of other artists in the capital, will definitely embrace informalism. The expressiveness and drama of his torn burlap star in the new bet of the Muvim for the beginning of the course. S.M.
