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Keenly attuned to the dynamic history of European painting, Murado has created a practice that speaks to this history.

b. 1964, Spain
Lives in New York, USA

Spanish born Antonio Murado has exhibited in a wide international context over the past three decades. A highly versatile artist, Murado is equally accomplished in creating abstract and representational paintings. He states, “I have always worked in an intermediate territory between figuration and abstraction.” This liminal space has proven rich; Murado has produced a highly accomplished body of work. Slipping in and out of a pictorial register, Murado’s paintings have a dreamlike quality. They entice the viewer to lose themselves in sensory enchantment, to daydream or meditate.

Keenly attuned to the dynamic history of European painting, Murado has created a practice that speaks to this history. His work has responded to Goya in particular, while also operating within a contemporary context. Drawing parallels with other contemporary painters, one could cite the practices of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal or German painter Albert Oehlen. Yet Murado’s work is lighter in both palette and sentiment than either of these artists. His work is poetic where theirs is critical, sublime where theirs can be abrasive. What they share in common is an examination in the space between spaces, an exploratory engagement with paint to generate a visual field that registers as both pictorial and gestural.

For as long as it has been practiced, from pre-historic depictions of wild animals to contemporary works of brightly coloured abstraction, painting has possessed the fascinating power to stimulate the imagination. Through his poignant explorations of the in-between, Murado taps into this rich vein, enticing his viewers to enjoy interpretive possibilities within his paintings.

Born in 1964 in the province of Lugo in Galician Spain, Murado currently lives in New York City. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, and are held in prominent museum, corporate, and private collections including The Galician Center of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; The Museum of Fine Art, Vitoria, Spain; The Nagasaki Art Museum, Japan; and in Collections of Phillip Morris, American Express, Chase Manhattan Bank, AXA, Pfizer, and The Coca-Cola Corporation.

Gow Langsford Gallery has represented Antonio Murado since 1997.

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