Andreu Alfaro

Andreu Alfaro (Valencia, 1929 - 2012) is an indispensable reference point in international sculpture, with pieces in museums all over the world and public works installed in the most important capitals. An autodidact, Alfaro’s artistic career began in the 1950s with drawings, paintings, and gouaches marked by abstraction. At the close of that decade, he began to do his first three-dimensional pieces with metallic elements, related to constructivist postulates. Alfaro was one of the creators of the Grupo Parpalló (1957), a collective that was decisive for the renovation of contemporary Valencian art. His sculptures tend to be filled with nuances that play with the module, with light, and with colour. In 1980 he experimented with other materials such as wire and marble. That year he was awarded the Premi d’Honor Jaume I and in 1981 the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas.