CABINET: MANOLO MILLARES
In its Gabinet space, Es Baluard presents the artist Manolo Millares(Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1926 – Madrid, 1972) and the research on his work through the works of art in the museum’s permanent collection. After his origins, when he focused on the primitivism and iconography of the Guanches (the indigenous, pre-colonial inhabitants of the Canary islands), reflected in his well-knownPictografías, Millares evolved and defined his own language, finding the ideal medium for expressing his concerns – mankind, Spain’s recent past, the pain and effects of war or the history of Spanish art and more specifically the Spanish Golden Age – in the form of sackcloth, a truly humble material. He moved to Madrid in 1955, a city where in 1957 he founded the El Paso group, the most important informalist group in Spain, active until 1960, along with Antonio Saura.
“Gabinet: Manolo Millares” includes his later period, after El Paso, through a selection of paintings and engravings created between 1961 and 1970 from the museum’s collection, which will be exhibited together with documentation on the artist and his work, also alluding to the Millares’ contribution to the special issue of Papeles de Son Armadans on El Paso in 1959.
