Of beauty and the sacred. Isabel Baquedano
First retrospective of the Navarre artist Isabel Baquedano, one of the most personal artists of Spanish painting in the second half of the 20th century.
Location: Floor 0
The exhibition De la belleza y lo sagrado, co-produced in collaboration between the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, the Museo Universidad de Navarra and the Museo de Navarra, is the first retrospective of the Navarrese painter Isabel Baquedano (Mendavia, 1929 - Madrid, 2018), one of the most personal artists of Spanish painting in the second half of the 20th century. Preeminent figure of the so-called School of Pamplona, and professor of painting at the School of Arts and Crafts of that city, Baquedano was a teacher of many of the contemporary Navarrese painters. Starting from a realistic aesthetic, the artist evolved in her work, imbibing the different currents of her time, within her general interest in the History of Art, but interpreting them in a personal way, always moved by her will to learn and enjoy the pictorial process more than the final result, without caring neither about recognition nor fame. His work covers a diverse range of subjects, from the themes with a clear social component of his early periods, to those linked to the classical world or the sacred history of his final stage, passing through others linked to symbolic aesthetics, urban landscapes or his everyday environment.
ISABEL BAQUEDANO
Isabel Baquedano (Mendavia, Navarra, 1929-Madrid, 2018) began her career in the early 1960s, with a realistic figurative orientation, creating a work that, without losing sight of the Pop art then in vogue, had a strong social background. Later her painting would slide towards the symbolic, and urban landscapes as well as everyday reality gave way to themes and subjects from the classical world or from the History of Art itself. She was a creator little known to the general public, although her work enjoyed early critical recognition. In 1957 she won the post of Professor of Drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in Pamplona, where she developed an important teaching career in successive generations of Navarrese artists.
Extremely demanding with his work, he knew how to go beyond his own technical skills and tried to take painting to the limit, confronting us in the painting with the enigma of the nameless that dwells beyond the visible.
Date
October 9, 2020
Time
19:00