Pedro Pablo Alonso

Exploración sobre la capacidad del color y la imagen de evocar, provocar y transmitir sentimientos

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    Biography

    Pedro Pablo Alonso / Biography

    Oviedo /Asturias/ Spain/ 1956

    Lives and works in Mallorca and Asturias, Spain.

    Painter and journalist. He began painting in 1972 and between 1974 and 1979 he studied Information Sciences in the universities of Navarra and Madrid. Pictorial and written language have been his means of expression ever since.

    In front of “Submerged Light”, in the studio in Palma, Mallorca. November, 2022.

    Javier Barón Thaidigsmann, doctor in Art History, critic, and Head of Collection of Nineteenth-Century Painting at the Museo Del Prado, has written about his painting: “Because of the playful sense of the brushstroke and the chromatic range that he uses, it can be considered the only representative in Asturias of colorful abstraction of Mediterranean origin”.

    He exhibited his work for the first time at the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias in 1982, after being selected for the III National Biennial of Art City of Oviedo. That same year he was included in the XIII Luarca National Painting Contest, and exhibited with the ABRA plastic group at the Nicanor Piñole Gallery in Gijón. It will form part of ABRA until 1987, with more relevant exhibitions in New York (Westbroadway Gallery, 1984) and the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias (1987).

    In 1983 he opened his first solo exhibition at the Nicanor Piñole Gallery in Gijón. He was selected for the IV National Biennial of Art City of Oviedo, at the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, in 1984. In 1987 he shows his work again in the five galleries of the Caja de Ahorros de Asturias.

    He participated in the exhibition organized by the University of Oviedo in its historic building to commemorate the history of the ABRA Group, in 2013.

    As a journalist, he has been editor of Diario de Mallorca (1992-2000 and 2009-2016), editor of Faro de Vigo (2000-2006), deputy editor of La Opinion A Coruña (06-09) and deputy editor of La Nueva España, of Asturias. During his time at the latter newspaper, he launched the Culture supplement, and directed it until his move to Mallorca, where he also created the “Bellver” cultural supplement.

    His journalistic activity has always been combined with painting, but when he assumed directing positions in the press, he decided to stop exhibiting to avoid conflicts of professional ethics.

    Since 2017 he has returned to publicly display his works.

    Solo exhibitions 

    1983

    • Nicanor Piñole Gallery. Gijón
    • 1987
    • Galleries of the Savings Bank of Asturias
    • Gijón / Oviedo / Mieres / La Felguera / Avilés 

    Group exhibitions

    1982

    • Nicanor Piñole Gallery. Gijón . With the ABRA Group
    • House of Culture of Corvera (ABRA)
    • Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias. Oviedo. (ABRA Group)
    • I Week of Plastic Arts, East Section. Oviedo (ABRA)

    1983

    • Boal Town Hall Gallery. (ABRA)

    1984

    • Westbroadway Gallery. New York. (ABRA)
    • Asturias Savings Bank. Oviedo. Gijón. Mieres. La Felguera. (ABRA)

    1985

    • Exhibition “Asturias Movement for Peace”. Galleries of Asturias Savings Bank.

    1987

    • Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias. Oviedo. @museobbaaasturias IG (ABRA)

    2013

    • Exhibition Hall Historical Building of the University of Oviedo @uniovi_info (ABRA)

    Contest & Biennials

    1982

    • III National Biennial of Art City of Oviedo. Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias.
    • XIII Luarca National Painting Contest.

    1983

    • XIV Luarca National Painting Contest.

    1984

    • IV National Biennial of Art City of Oviedo. Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias.

    Work in Collections

    • Culture Foundation of the Foreign Bank of Spain.
    • Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias. @museobbaaasturias IG
    • Asturias Savings Bank. @Unicajabanco

    Written references:

    Javier Baron Thaidigsmann.

    • Thematic Encyclopedia of Asturias. Volume 5. Art II. Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors. 1984.
    • The III National Biennial of Art City of Oviedo.
    • Exhibitions in Asturias during 1982
    • Linen. Annual Magazine of Art History. No. 3. 1982
    • The Asturian artistic season 1982-83.
    • Astura. New Cartafueyos d’Asturies. No. 1. 1983
    • Exhibitions in Asturias. September 83-February 84.
    • Astura. No. 2 . 1984.
    • Exhibitions in Asturias during 1984.
    • Linen. Annual magazine of Art History. No. 5. 1985.
    • Exhibitions in Asturias during 1987.
    • Linen. No. 8. 1989.

    Rubén Suárez

    • Abra, memory of a friendship and the creation of an artistic group.
    • Newspaper The New Spain. May 30, 2013

    Melchor Fernández Díaz

    • Clear the way to enjoy the beauty
    • Nicanor Piñole Gallery catalog. 1983

    Pilar Rubiera

    • “I look for an art that helps to live”. Región newspaper, 1983.
    • ABRA’s reunion. La Nueva España newspaper, 2013.
    • Modern, Asturian and universal. La Nueva España newspaper, 2013.

    Esther Rodríguez Ortiz

    • Pedro Pablo Alonso and emotional color
    • ABRA’s reunion. Publications Service of the University of Oviedo. 2013.
    In the studio in Palma, with canvas nº 2 of the Frond series (120 x 80 cm.) Mallorca. 2022
    In front of “Sweet Basil” (Acrylic on canvas, 195 x 130 cm.), at the 1983 exhibition in Gijón.
    Painting in oil in Oviedo, at the age of 16.
    Next to the poster of the first individual exhibition, at the Nicanor Piñole Gallery, in Gijón (Asturias), in 1983.
    Together with the canvas “Towards the light”, in Oviedo, in 1982.
    In the studio in Palma, Mallorca, with works from 2022.
    Painting, with acrylic on canvas, in the second studio in Oviedo (Ciudad Naranco), for the first individual exhibition, in 1983
    In the studio in Palma, Majorca. Nov. 2022
    With the four canvases (The joy of gray / Sweet basil / Saturn knows / Volant 195 x 130 cm.) exhibited at Westbroadway Gallery. New York. Feb 1984.