Manuel Huertas Torrejón

Guadalupe (Cáceres), 1953.

He studied Fine Arts at the San Fernando Royal Academy in Madrid from 1973 to 1978. He subsequently obtained a degree and doctorate from Madrid’s Universidad Complutense, where he is currently tenured professor in pictorial procedures at the Fine Arts Faculty.

He is an extraordinarily sensitive painter, for whom art is a way of understanding life as a whole and a method of communication and personal expression. His acute and raw realism was inspired by day-to-day life around him, and by his own personal experiences.

His first exhibition came in 1972 at the XLII Salón de Otoño in Madrid. In 1986, his prestige was consolidated with the "Blanco y Negro" award for upcoming artists and the Adaja painting prize.

In his own words, his work "... reveals the presence of man, but via his absence, that human footprint which always remains in some corner of a city or beach, and which it is only matter of wanting to see; because we sometimes pass through places and we look, but we do not see..."

1992 Manuel Huertas Torrejón The white dorecote Oil on canvas glued to wood 116 x 84 cm.