Marcial Gómez Parejo (

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, 5 July 1930 -

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, 1 June 2012) was an Andalusian painter and illustrator known for his imaginative work and magical realism In his artistics beginnings, between 1949 and 1953, he was influenced by the American comic artist

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, creator of

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. The panel, he said, began his connection with artistic expression. In the 1960s he began working for the textile industry in Barcelona, where he created series of

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with influences of geometric constructivism, with plant motifs and other ornamental arts of Northern Europe and the Soviet Union, places he visited in this decade. From the 1970s left the world of stamping and started a figurative

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with

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infiltrations in dialogue with a type of very personal

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and began to exhibit at various galleries.

Awards and exhibitions

List of Marcial Gómez Parejo awards and exhibitions: * 1969: Barcelona, First Prize, I Drawing Textile Award of Spain * 1971: Barcelona, Second prize III Drawing Textile award of Spain * 1978: Haurie Gallery,

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, Spain. * 1978: ''El nuevo realismo y la escuela sevillana (The new realism and the Seville school)'' at Heller Gallery,

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, Spain. (group exhibition) * 1979: Tribute to ''Bosco'' in the Majke Hüsstege Gallery,

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. (group exhibition) * 1980: Heller Gallery, Madrid, Spain. * 1980: Lieve-Hemel Gallery,

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, Netherlands. (group exhibition) * 1986: ARCO (Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo), Madrid and Illcenacolo Gallery,

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, Italia. (group exhibition) * 1987 i 1992: Rayuela Gallery, Madrid, Spain. * 1988: Medal of Honor for finalist in the "Painters for 1992" Award, Caja Provincial de Córdoba, for the work ''Interior en ocres (Interior ocher)''. * 1989: Nolde Galery,

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, Spain. * 1998: Cajasur de Córdoba showroom, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain. * 2004: Retrospective exhibition at Palacio de la Merced of ''Fundación de Artes Plásticas

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'', Córdoba. * 2011: ''Magischer Realismus aus Spanien. Im Schatten der Träume'' (''In the shadow of dreams. Magic Realism in Spain'') in the ''Panorama Museum'',

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, Germany. (group exhibition with Luis Sáez, José Hernández,

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, José Veiés i Dino Valls)

Gallery

A Silvio de Narni, Marcial Gómez 1990.jpg, ''A Silvio de Narni'' (series Bomarzo) Oil/canvas 130x97 cm (1990) La loca, Marcial Gómez 1982.jpg, ''La loca'' Oil/wood 50x40 cm (1982) El sueño de un caduco, Marcial Gómez 1980.jpg, ''El sueño de un caduco (The dream of an expired)'' Oil/canvas 180x140 cm (1980) Bosco, Marcial Gómez 1979.jpg, ''Bosco'' Oil/canvas 50x70 cm (1979) Antonella, Marcial Gómez 1979.jpg, ''Antonella'' Oil/wood 80x80 cm (1979)

References

External links

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at Córdobapedia * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gomez Parejo, Marcial Painters from Andalusia 1930 births 2012 deaths