News, curiosities, tributes, presentations and publications related to the artist.
The exhibition will be open to visitors from May 21 to July 24, 2026, at the Blanca de Navarra 9 space and marks the sixth solo exhibition that the gallery has dedicated to the Madrid-born artist. The exhibition brings together a carefully curated selection of works created between 1977 and 2003, the final stage of […]
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The Antonio Pérez Foundation hosts one of the most anticipated exhibitions of recent years starting this Friday: Pablo Palazuelo. An Inscribed Delight, an exceptional show dedicated to one of the great names of contemporary Spanish art. Curated by art theorist and critic Alfonso de la Torre, the exhibition will remain open to the public until […]
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Liquen Records has released an album by Josep Lluís Galiana (soprano and tenor saxophone) and Joan Gómez Alemany (electronics) in which they pay tribute to, and are inspired by, the work of Manolo Millares (1926–1972) and Pablo Palazuelo (1915–2007), renowned painters from Gran Canaria and Madrid and leading figures in Spanish abstract art. The work […]
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Researcher Joan Gómez Alemany relates the work of Pablo Palazuelo to music. Quodlibet is a music journal published by the University of Alcalá, in which Pablo Palazuelo appears in its latest issue. Joan Gómez Alemany publishes in this journal a text titled “The Musical Pictorial Fugue: Visual-Sonic Interdisciplinarity in Pablo Palazuelo and Others”. In this […]
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Curator Alfonso de la Torre presents a didactic tour of the exhibition “Art and Spirituality” at the Niemeyer Center. The iconic venue of contemporary architecture, the Niemeyer Center, hosts from October 10, 2025 the exhibition titled Art and Spirituality. Imagining the Extraordinary, jointly organized with the BBVA Collection and curated by Alfonso de la Torre. […]
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A curatorial perspective on contemporary art. Next Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 7:00 p.m, the University of Navarra Museum (MUN) will open the exhibition “Dear viewer, what are you looking at?” which will remain on display until February 8 in the Torre Room. Through 35 selected pieces from the ARCO Foundation Collection, a cultural institution […]
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The notebooks of Pablo Palazuelo: the invisible origin of his geometric art. The Spanish artist is one of the great references of geometric abstract art in Europe. But his creative process went far beyond painting or sculpture: it began in his workbooks, where drawing was a tool for research and transformation. Far from being simple […]
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Artium Museum in Vitoria-Gasteiz brings together an exceptional exhibition featuring three essential figures in Spanish 20th-century abstraction: Jorge Oteiza, Pablo Palazuelo, and Elena Asins. Under the title Giving Form to the Transcendent, the exhibition establishes a dialogue between their trajectories, marked by geometry, structure, and the pursuit of the ineffable. From Oteiza’s energetic sculpture to […]
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As the motto of the XX International EGA Congress, “Graphical Horizons” states, the essence of architecture lies in the desire to look beyond the present moment, to anticipate and prepare for the future. The horizon—by definition unattainable—not only symbolizes this unwritten future, but also acts as a constant source of hope in times of uncertainty. […]
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The Official Gazette of Extremadura (DOE) published on March 8 a resolution from the Regional Ministry of Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports declaring the Monroy Castle a Site of Cultural Interest. An attempt had already been made in 1987, but the process was not completed. For this reason, the Ministry of Culture considered it appropriate […]
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Chillida Leku, the iconic museum located in Hernani (Gipuzkoa), welcomes an unprecedented exhibition with the opening of *“Universo Maeght”*. This fascinating show proposes a dialogue between the works of renowned sculptor Eduardo Chillida and other prominent artists who shared his artistic trajectory alongside the historic dealer Aimé Maeght and his wife Marguerite. The exhibition, organized […]
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The exhibition invites visitors to go beyond the painted surface and delve into the analysis of the backs of paintings, transforming them into objects of study and narratives in their own right. Until March 3, 2024, the Museo del Prado, in collaboration with the AXA Foundation, offers a fascinating journey that reveals the other side […]
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The Pablo Palazuelo Foundation aims to preserve and promote the legacy, work, and memory of Pablo Palazuelo. In this context, Palazuelo was actively involved and committed to the education of young artists. The programs of the University of Navarra and its Museum maintain a special connection with Pablo Palazuelo through the legacy of María Josefa […]
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The RTVE program *Atención Obras* has traveled to Navarre to visit “The Geometric Method,” the exhibition organized at the MUN, Museum of the University of Navarra, dedicated to the work of Pablo Palazuelo, a major reference of geometric abstraction in Spain. It can now be watched on the RTVE Play platform, starting at minute 23:20, […]
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The Urban Design II course of the Architecture Degree at Universidad San Pablo CEU, in collaboration with the Pablo Palazuelo Foundation, has held the III Pablo Palazuelo Competition. The main objective of the competition was to develop a proposal related to the evolution in the design and representation of ideal cities by selecting one of […]
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SYDUS. 1997. GOUACHE ON RICHARD DE BASS PAPER. PABLO PALAZUELO FOUNDATION The exhibition currently on view focuses on the figure of Pablo Palazuelo and his Geometric Method. It features several works from the Museum Collection, as well as other iconic pieces by the artist. Palazuelo stands out as one of the leading representatives of Geometric […]
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The Urban Design II course, taught in the third year of the Architecture Degree at the School of Engineering of the Universidad San Pablo CEU (EPS), together with the Pablo Palazuelo Foundation, announces for the architecture students of said university the III PABLO PALAZUELO COMPETITION, developed under the cooperation agreement and in accordance with the […]
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The 4th Geometry and Technical Drawing Olympiad of the Community of Madrid is a competition aimed at high school and vocational training students in the Community of Madrid, allowing each school to register up to 3 students. The tests will consist of a series of technical drawing exercises completed individually. A competition organized to foster […]
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L’Auditori de Barcelona will take part this year, for the first time, in the Llum BCN festival with the installation *Signes*, by the Playmodes studio. A piece that can be seen in the Lantern of L’Auditori, the large glass cube designed by Rafael Moneo, which contains mural paintings by Pablo Palazuelo and was fully restored […]
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The Museo ICO presents Pablo Palazuelo. The Line as an Architectural Dream, an exhibition that offers for the first time a journey through the career of this Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker, one of the foremost representatives of 20th-century geometric abstraction, through a selection of works and projects that illustrate the close relationship between architecture […]
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New recording project by guitarist Giuseppe Mennuti dedicated to the guitar music of Spanish composer José María Sánchez-Verdú, resulting from a collaboration between the label Contrastes Records and the Hochschule der Künste Bern. The Pablo Palazuelo Foundation has collaborated on the album by granting the rights to the 1980 lithograph Emblema I by Pablo Palazuelo, […]
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4th-grade primary school students from Miravalles School took part in the Christmas drawing competition. They submitted original sheets made of polystyrene foam printed on paper using red and green tempera paint, where each participant drew inspiration from different works by Pablo Palazuelo. A total of 87 drawings were submitted, of which 5 were selected […]
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Thanks to the RTVE sound archive, we once again hear the voice of Pablo Palazuelo in this special interview for the Sapiens program. You can listen to the excerpt of the program published on 08/10/2022 through the following player: You can also listen to the full program through the following link: https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/sapiens/celulas-viajeras-angela-nieto-08-10-22/6709422/
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This unique book within art theory and literary criticism is the result of more than four years of work. It has been co-authored by Alfonso de la Torre (Madrid, 1960), one of the most internationally renowned art critics and curators (a leading specialist on the artists Manolo Millares and Pablo Palazuelo, and author of their […]
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The project, first presented in spring of this year at the Palacio de San Nicolás in Bilbao, is now moving—with an expanded selection—to the privileged setting of the Real Jardín Botánico in Madrid (Villanueva Pavilion). More than forty works, distributed across four sections, propose a dialogue between the collection of ancient art and that […]
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On Wednesday, March 30, at the Palacio de San Nicolás — BBVA headquarters in Bilbao — the exhibition “Art and Spirituality. Imagining the Extraordinary” was presented. From March 31 to June 5, 2022, it hosts a carefully selected display of historical and contemporary works from the BBVA Collection in Spain. A selection of 40 works […]
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Art and wine hand in hand thanks to the Pablo Palazuelo Foundation and CVNE On March 17, a monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist Pablo Palazuelo opened in Haro. The show, curated by Alfonso de la Torre, was organized in collaboration with CVNE and the Pablo Palazuelo Foundation. Ensoñación de la materia is not the […]
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One of the leading figures of Spanish abstract art in the second half of the 20th century We transcribe the RNE Exterior podcast dedicated to Pablo Palazuelo on Punto de Enlace, Memorias de Ayer with Álvaro Sánchez Palomino. Number, drawing, line, plane, space, and color are fundamental elements of his work, all placed at the […]
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The skylight designed by Pablo Palazuelo The artist sketched a skylight for the Casa Comercial Palazuelo building, a project initiated by his grandfather, Fernando Demetrio Palazuelo. Among the many works created by Pablo Palazuelo are various drawings that the artist sketched as future projects. Within these sketches we find a skylight that Palazuelo designed for […]
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Paul Klee and his influence in Spain Art critic Alfonso de la Torre introduces us to the German artist Paul Klee in his work “Klee and Spain. The Kleean Irredentists. Paul Klee and Spanish postwar art” Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee (Switzerland) in 1870 and, although he is considered one of the geniuses of […]
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“Paisatges”: a performance inspired by the work of Pablo Palazuelo. The Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona) hosts the dance performance “Paisatges”, a work by choreographer and dancer Cristina Martí. Pablo Palazuelo’s work can no longer only be seen through painting or sculpture; it can now also be experienced through dance thanks to “Paisatges”, a performance […]
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The jewel that Pablo Palazuelo left in Cuenca. Cuenca is famous for its Hanging Houses (Casas Colgadas) and also for the Museum of Abstract Art housed inside them. Among many of the works is “Omphale V”, an oil on canvas painted by Pablo Palazuelo between 1965–1967. It was commissioned by Zóbel to form part of […]
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Gonzalo Sotelo-Calvillo at the University of the Basque Country The author of “La vida onírica” presents the lecture “Luminous Lines. Geometric Tracings in the Stained Glass Windows of Pablo Palazuelo.” The University of the Basque Country invited Gonzalo Sotelo-Calvillo on October 25 to deliver a lecture as part of a workshop in which drawing students […]
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On María Josefa Huarte. The Museum of the University of Navarra opens on October 6 the exhibition “On María Josefa Huarte”, a show of 44 works, some of them exhibited to the public for the first time, which engage in dialogue across four different environments dedicated to figuration, the wall as a space for creation, […]
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Abstract Color The City Council of Elche and the Caja Mediterráneo Foundation are organizing an exhibition featuring a selection from the last eight decades of Spanish abstract color art: “Abstract Color”, at the Exhibition Hall of the Gran Teatre of Elche. The exhibition includes 67 works by 40 artists such as Antoni Clavé, Pablo Palazuelo, […]
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The teaching cooperative Lauro Ikastola has developed during this academic year the project “Analyzing Geometric Abstraction”, an activity through which students have sought to search for, record, understand, interpret, and evaluate information related to the use of image structure. After gathering information, the students of the school created drawings based on geometric abstraction, always placing […]
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Ediciones Asimétricas presents on Instagram the work: *Pablo Palazuelo. The Dreamlike Life.* The work Pablo Palazuelo. The Dreamlike Life was presented through the Instagram channel of the publishing house Ediciones Asimétricas in its space *Asymmetric Reading Club*. On Wednesday, June 9 at 19:00h, the publisher hosted a live Instagram session to present this work together […]
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Gonzalo Sotelo Calvillo. “Pablo Palazuelo. The Dreamlike Life of the Line”. The Pablo Palazuelo Foundation, in collaboration with Ediciones Asimétricas, publishes the edition of three essays written by Gonzalo Sotelo Calvillo under the title The Dreamlike Life. This thesis contains three volumes entitled Foundations of a Thought, Geometric Dreams, and Architectural Threshold. The work and […]
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For Sánchez-Verdú, discovering the pictorial work of Pablo Palazuelo was a transcendental encounter. The use of geometry, labyrinth-like forms, and repeated patterns creates, according to the composer, an impressive and indescribable energy. Listen to the piece on YouTube Learn more about the biography of composer and conductor José María Sánchez-Verdú The album cover is dedicated […]
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Structural Lines. Tracings in the sculptural work of Pablo Palazuelo. Lecture delivered at CEU San Pablo University by Gonzalo Sotelo Calvillo. Scan the QR code and access the meeting on the Teams platform on April 21 at 13:00. Location: Graduate Hall of the School of Architecture and Technology – CEU San Pablo University – Montepríncipe […]
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New publication from the Monroy newsletter, which in its third year presents a special spring issue with information about the historical, cultural, and natural heritage of the village. It includes a contribution by José Rodríguez-Spiteri Palazuelo about the artist and his connection to Monroy Castle. Download the Monroy local magazine “El Manantío” Pablo Palazuelo and […]
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On Thursday, March 25, on the occasion of the Feast of Saint Joseph — patron of the School of Architecture and Technology — San Pablo CEU University, in close collaboration with the Pablo Palazuelo Foundation, announced the winners of the 1st Pablo Palazuelo Competition. The Form Analysis I course (taught in the first year of […]
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María Teresa Raventós Viñas and Gonzalo Sotelo Calvillo. Essay: “Graphic Superimpositions in Pablo Palazuelo’s Drawing”. María Teresa Raventós Viñas and Gonzalo Sotelo Calvillo authored an essay in issue 41 of *Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica*, a quarterly journal produced by the Departments of Architectural Graphic Expression at Spanish universities, focused on the field of architecture. The published […]
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Within the texts written about Palazuelo, we highlight today: *Geological Forms Unearthed: “Seeing Through” the Art of Pablo Palazuelo* by Richard H. Knight. An interesting analysis of Palazuelo’s “trans-geometry” and how the rhythms of nature can be translated into visual art from a geologist’s perspective. You can read the full text via this link. Knight, […]
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The Universidad San Pablo CEU, in collaboration with the Pablo Palazuelo Foundation, has launched the 1st Pablo Palazuelo Competition. Organized by members of the Form Analysis course of the Architecture Degree at EPS, the jury met last Friday, February 19, to reach a decision. We share with you some images of the students’ work, as […]
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The Alzheimer’s Family and Friends Association of Alicante (AFA Alicante) and the MACA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante) have been collaborating since 2012 on the “Reminiscences” programme, a pioneering project in the Valencian Community, with the aim of turning MACA into a space for accessibility to art and culture, artistic creation, and visual practice […]
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Exhibition: Variable Geometries Sempere, Palazuelo, Oteiza. Exhibition at the Bilbao-based Galería Michel Mejuto featuring works by Jorge Oteiza, Eusebio Sempere, and Pablo Palazuelo, who share a common exploration of geometry in their artistic practice. A catalogue of the exhibition has been published, including an introduction by Javier Viar. Organized by: Galería Michel Mejuto Dates: December […]
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Taiwan Calligraphy Exhibition The Economic and Cultural Office of Taipei in Spain and the City Council of Burlada, in the Chartered Community of Navarre, Spain, are presenting at the Casa de la Cultura in Burlada the calligraphy exhibition by Taiwanese master Tu Chung-Kao titled “From Tradition to Modernity”. The exhibition, open to the public from […]
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The Museum of the University of Navarra shop offers for sale a Pablo Palazuelo hoodie featuring a print of one of his works: Omphale I. This oil on canvas painting dates from 1962 and can be seen in the museum’s galleries. Omphale I is one of the principal works included in María Josefa Huarte’s legacy […]
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Madrid Gallery Weekend 2020 held its eleventh edition from Thursday, September 10 to Sunday, September 13, 2020, reaffirming itself as a major event in the art world. With 48 galleries and more than 75 artists, it opened its doors to the public to bring contemporary creation closer to audiences and promote Madrid’s artistic scene internationally. […]
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The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum has been hosting, since Wednesday, July 15, a temporary exhibition featuring one of the most important private collections in Spain: the María Josefa Huarte Collection. The collection was donated in 2008 to the University of Navarra, promoting the creation of the Museum of the University of Navarra, designed by architect […]
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From February 14, the exhibition *H Muebles. Between Industry, Architecture and Art* can be visited, as part of the exhibitions organized for the third edition of the Madrid Design Festival. Curated by Pedro Feduchi, Patricia Molins, and Pedro Reula, and in collaboration with the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM), it presents the works […]
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Alfonso de la Torre, Calm, Silence, Work in Peace. Pablo Palazuelo and Eduardo Chillida in Villaines-sous-Bois, 1951 The author has been researching the highly energetic figure of Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid, 1915–2007). One of these early encounters was the exhibition *Pablo Palazuelo: 13 rue Saint-Jacques (1948–1968)*, produced by the Fundación Juan March and the Oteiza Museum […]
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From Thursday, February 6 to April 26, the exhibition at the Fundación ICO dedicated to the work of architect Javier Sáenz de Oíza (Cáseda, Navarre, 1918 – Madrid, 2000) can be visited. The exhibition presents more than 250 pieces: plans, paintings, sculptures, models, and other objects of various architectural typologies. Visitors will also be able […]
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Viar analyzes the period through the work of 12 artists. Six abstract artists: Antoni Tàpies, Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Palazuelo, Rafael Ruiz Balerdi, Gabriel Ramos Uranga, and Vicente Larrea. And six figurative artists: Antonio López, John Davies, Edward Hopper, Doménico Paladino, Carmelo Ortiz de Elguea, and Mari Puri Herrero. The event took place on Thursday, January […]
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The third-grade primary school students from Colegio Miravalles-El Redín (Miravalles campus) in Navarre carry out an annual project under the direction of teacher Elisabeth Ostander (Head of Art and Music in Primary Education), creating a Christmas nativity scene inspired by an abstract work of art. This year, the chosen painting was “El número y las […]
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The work contains poems composed by Eugenio Montale between 1939 and 1956, a period that covers a highly dense and significant historical era for Italy and Europe as a whole: the Second World War and the postwar collapse. However, focusing on the analysis of the human condition in its complexity and universality, Montale does not […]
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After studying the unpublished sketches of the Spanish artist Pablo Palazuelo, this essay proposes the existence of geometric patterns that order his designs. To illustrate the proposal, this paper selects three representative projects by Palazuelo that attempt to demonstrate the presence of a working process related to a mathematical substrate. Specifically, the use of an […]
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Recently, an article appeared in *El País* featuring an interview with Rafael Moneo, the architect responsible for the construction of the headquarters of Banco Intercontinental Español (Bankinter). As described in the article, the main artwork contained in the building is located on the ceiling of the lobby, which was commissioned to Pablo Palazuelo, as well […]
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Axiare Patrimonio worked with Summa to create an innovative and ambitious technological project: the development of the corporate identity of Virto, a 17,000 m² business space in Alcobendas, Madrid, considered the first smart office building in Spain and one of the most advanced in Europe in terms of efficiency, sustainability, and technology, which features its […]
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Within the collection Lo Specchio, from the publisher Mondadori, the new Maira Luisa Spazian´s poetry book bases its cover on a work by Pablo Palazuelo: Bloom, 1996. In this the collection we find other covers based on the work of Pablo Palazuelo that you can see in this article that we dedicated a few months […]
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On May 27th, the new book by Benigno Pendás García “La Sociedad menos injusta. Estudios de Historia de las Ideas y Teoría de la Constitución” was presented at the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Science, which cover shows the work of Pablo Palazuelo “NIGREDO I” PhD in Political Science and a lawyer, Benigno Pendás […]
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Through this post you can discover an unpublished gallery of images of Pablo palazuelo. These images are included between 1942 and 1999, in which we can see the professional part of the artist and the most personal.
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The most prestigious collection of poetry by Mondadori is certainly “Lo Specchio” which, born in 1940 as a collection of poetic works, but also prose texts (fiction and nonfiction), specialized in poetry. In the fifties, by the will of Alberto Mondadori (creator of the collection, together with Arturo Tofanelli) with the collaboration of Giuseppe Ravegnani, […]
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Lunariae Series – Modern Times Radio 5 program dedicated to Pablo Palazuelo on the occasion of the exhibition of 8 engravings of the Lunariae folder that took place in Madrid at the Tiempos Modernos gallery in July 2012. More information
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El ojo crítico – Pablo Palazuelo – July 23, 2010 Pablo Palazuelo has been and is one of the most recognized artists of our History of Art, pursuing geometries and abstractions he left in 1948 to Paris to meet the avant-garde and specifically with Paul Klee. Now this Parisian period is included in an exhibition […]
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The RTVE newscast of the time tells of the death of the Spanish painter Pablo Palazuelo, master of geometric abstraction. Today will be incinerated the remains of the artist Pablo Palazuelo who died yesterday in Madrid at 90 years – told the chronicle – Representative of geometric abstraction, was one of the great Spanish artists […]
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On October 5, 2007, La 2 broadcasts a program directed by Paloma Chamorro dedicated to the figure and work of artist Pablo Palazuelo, recently deceased.
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The disc The number and the waters is published, that investigates the correspondence between pictorial signs and sounds, realized with the Belgian composer Frédéric Nyst.
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R.L.D. Éditeur publishes in Paris the book Ardicia, with poems by José Miguel Ullán and 8 engravings by Palazuelo. During these years in his work resurge the symbolic constellations, where the groups of graphic signs make up the compositions. It contains 2 etchings and 2 sanguines signed in pencil by Pablo Palazuelo. Eight original […]
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