Miguel Ángel Barba
Of the four remarkable artists residing in Cuenca with whom our gallery began working more than fifteen years ago, only Miguel Ángel Barba has "resisted" and remains in the thick of it. This painter trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cuenca, began his career with a raw and wild figurative-expressionist approach, mixing his production on canvas with paintings on large pieces of cardboard, packaging material from refrigerators and other electrical appliances collected from the street.
After several years of figurative work, Miguel Ángel Barba left this phase behind to embark on abstract compositions based in wide bands made with coloured wax, which with the passage of time fade and end up becoming almost imperceptible stripes drawn with graphite on white backgrounds.
His prolific work has evolved progressively towards very schematic compositions in which rhythms and continuous repetition become a key and inherent element. Initially the colour was abundant in his works, within the figurative style. Today his orderly compositions on intense white backgrounds induce calm observation and meditation.
His work is represented in outstanding national and international collections. His exhibitions at the Museo de Obra Gráfica of San Clemente (2016) and at the Fundación Antonio Pérez in Cuenca (2014) stand out, as well as his participation in the World Art Tokyo exhibition in collaboration with the Spanish embassy in Japan (2020).