Manolo Quejido
1946, Seville, Spain
Lives and works in Madrid, Spain
A representative figure of the new figuration movement in Madrid, where he lived from 1964, after an initial period strongly influenced by Equipo 57, he found inspiration in American Pop Art. Andy Warhol and David Hockney had a great impact on his work.
His practice is characterised by a lively and carefree colouring charged with a vital and festive joy, his is an art of vibrant brushstrokes. In Quejido’s work there is a reaction to the obscurantism and existentialist gravity of earlier informalism. His attitude is ironic and provocative.
Quejido also reflects on thinking and painting: does painting represent a thought or does it produce it, can the history of painting be a system of thought? In Quejido’s work these questions appear alongside that of painting as a work and as an action, two distinct but contiguous senses.
Los Pintores, 2014. Acrylic on canvas. 130 x 162 cm
La Lata, 2003. Acrylic on canvas. 200 x 180 cm
