Feito, Luis

LUIS FEITO BIOGRAPHY

Luis Feito was born in Madrid on October 31, 1929. He studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, where he entered in 1950. Four years later, in Madrid, he held his first solo exhibition at the Buchholz Gallery, followed by another at the Santa Fe Gallery. From that moment on, Feito began to exhibit regularly in major cities around the world, such as Paris, Milan, New York, Helsinki, Tokyo and Rome.

In 1956, while studying in Paris, Feito was influenced by automatism and matter painting, working with oil paste and sand, using a color palette based on shades of black, white and ochre. In 1957, he founded the group El Paso together with the painters Antonio Saura, Manolo Millares, Rafael Canogar, and the writers Manuel Conde and José Ayllón.

In the 1970s, he introduced the color red into his work and moved towards abstraction. By 1975, his work began to lean towards geometrization, culminating at the end of that decade with a series of white paintings. Most of his works are untitled, being recognized through a unique numbering.

Throughout his career, Feito received several awards and distinctions, such as the UNAM Prize at the First Paris Biennial (1959) and the David Bright Prize at the XXX Venice Biennial. In 1985, he was named Officer of the Arts and Letters of France, and in 1993, Member of the Order of the Arts and Letters of France. In 1998, he received the Gold Medal of Fine Arts and was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. In 2001, he won the Critics' Prize at the Estampa Fair in Madrid, and the following year, the AECA Grand Prize at Arco'02.

He died in 2021. Luis Feito's work is part of private collections and world-renowned museums.