Born in 1938 in Bilbao (Vizcaya), he's been student of the Picassiana school of Juan Mirò. His beginnings connect him tightly with the Ortega painter.

Famous in Italy, Spain, Mexico and France for his fantastic inspiration and surrealistic works . He began to paint at 19 years in Bilbao, with the painter Ortega, selling his pictures in order to help the asturian miners: social realism to demonstration of his own solidarity with the miners of the Asturias.

But his life was not easy. Escaped from home as a result of political contrasts with his father, he moved to Mexico where he adapted himself, for living, to humble trades, but continuing painting as aid of Siquieros, assimilating his way in representing the horrors of the dictatorship of the peones. Returned in Spain, he began to use the paint-brush against Franco's regimen, he was arrested and confined for some time in a concentration camp. Freed, he left again.

His collaboration with the master Ortega, he began with him painting among the roads of Vizcaya, induced him, in 1964, to move to Paris where he still worked in the study of the master.

Past definitely in Italy, he improved his studies to the academy of Brera under the guide of Master Usellini.

Very numerous the exhibitions, the contests, the prizes which he has participated, always achieve the most prestigious recognitions.

His artistic formation, even if sensitive to the social realism of Ortega, goes back to Juan Mirò's stock. He's therefore an artist that extends to transfigure the visual elements in virtue of the color and the light to reach a fantastic vision in which reality engages a new dimension and it's confused with the dream.

Also very interesting his technique researches that invest also the graphics and sculpture fields, for which his art has aroused lively curiosity in critical circles too, earning the attention of many accredited competent.

In 1982 the master has retired to private life participating more and more rarely to exhibitions or contests.

In 1983 he's moved to Goito (Mantua) where he's continued his artistic studies and, for request of many companies of insurance and collectors, he's realized varied copies of old masters. For more informations consult the relative page.

Gutierrez De Velasco Fernando

has died on April 5 2002 at 23:45 in Castiglione Delle Stiviere (Mantua) Hospital for an aggravation of the cerebral disease after have entered in coma on April 3.
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art. 2575 c.c. • legge 22 aprile 1941 n°633

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