Miguel Ángel Campano

Miguel Ángel Campano Mendaza (February 11, 1948 – August 5, 2018) was a Spanish painter who was critically acclaimed as part of the "generation of the renewal of Spanish painting", receiving, among other prizes, he received the National Award for Plastic Arts in 1996.

Biography Born in Madrid, he was the third of five brother, son of General Ángel Campano López. He studied Fine Arts in Valencia and Architecture in Madrid. He began his artistic career in 1969, making his first individual exhibition in Bilbao. In 1971 he exhibited in different Spanish towns – Pamplona, Santander and Valencia – and that same year he met the abstract painter Fernando Zóbel, The reinterpretation in several series of French paintings by Cezanne and Poussin, among others, as well as cubism, stands out from his production. The two most outstanding exhibitions of his work have been those held in Valencia by the IVAM at the Centre del Carmen in 1990-1991 and the one held at the Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid between June and September 1999.

In 1996, he was awarded the National Prize for Visual Arts in Spain for "his decisive contribution to the debate on the new Spanish painting" and the "rigor and courage with which he has developed a work in which he combines construction and expressiveness in an exemplary manner". Campano works can be found in museums such as the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Abstract Art Museum in Cuenca, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the ARTIUM Centre-Basque Museum of Contemporary Art, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Hastings Foundation collection in New York.

Campano died on August 5, 2018, in Cercedilla.