Pablo Palazuelo

Pablo Palazuelo was a Spanish artist (Madrid, Spain, 1915–Galapagar, Spain, 2007), a leading figure in Spanish geometric abstraction in the second half of the 20th century. His work included painting, sculpture, printmaking, writing, and theoretical reflection, all understood as parts of the same visual and intellectual search.

His language was built through line, plane, space, color, number, and geometry. He studied architecture and maintained a constant interest in ancient philosophy, Eastern thought, contemporary physics, and the relationships between mathematics and nature. In his paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, abstraction appears as a way to explore invisible structures, inner rhythms, and processes of transformation.

His work is part of collections such as the Museo Reina Sofía, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fundación Juan March, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca, the Banco de España Collection, MACBA, Artium Museoa, Fundación “la Caixa”, and Kunsthaus Zürich. His awards include the Kandinsky Prize in 1952, the Carnegie Prize in 1958, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 1982, the National Prize for Visual Arts in 1999, and the Velázquez Prize for Visual Arts in 2004.
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