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Manolo Miralles

The Baluard Gabinet dedicate its space to the artist Manolo Miralles (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1926 - Madrid, 1972) , one of the founders of the group El Paso. Created in Madrid in 1957 and in operation until 1960 , this collective of artists was the most important informalist group in Spain.

In the beginning, Manolo Miralles focused his work on primitivism and Guanche iconography reflected in his well known pictographs . From 1949 he devoted himself to abstract painting , using for his works bags with holes, burlap and rope on which he glued objects found in the trash and then overlying large amounts of paint.

Gabinet : Manolo Miralles collects his post- El Paso period through a selection of paintings and prints made between 1961 and 1970 from the museum collection . It is accompanied by information about the artist and his work, as his collaboration in the special issue dedicated to El Paso in 1959 the Armadans papers , a literary magazine founded in Palma by Nobel Prize winner for Literature Camilo Jose Cela in force between 1956 and 1979.