AGUEDA DE LA PISA (Palencia, 1942).
Untitled, 1986.
Mixed technique on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Measures: 103 x 161 cm, 104.5 x 162 cm (frame)
Agueda de la Pisa was born in Palencia, after the death of her father and when she was only two years old, she moved with her family to Valladolid. In this city she studied drawing with Eugenio Ramos Sanz at the end of the 1950s. At the age of fourteen he already knew that his vocation was painting, something that caused some family reticence. Once he finished high school, he moved to Madrid where he continued his artistic studies at the academy of Eduardo Peña and at the School of Arts and Crafts, in the modeling section. At that time he frequented the drawing workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. His first exhibition was in 1964, in the hall of the Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Valladolid, with works of academic theme and technique (landscapes, still lifes, portraits). The poet Francisco Pino (with whom he would have an intense artistic and human relationship) sponsored this first exhibition with a text. From the mid-1970s and after having practiced other styles, he definitively inclined towards abstraction and showed a great influence of the painters of the New York School. In 1987 he was part of the artistic group Ruedo Ibérico, created by the painter José Caballero, which also included other artists such as Salvador Victoria, José María Iglesias, José Luis Fajardo, Luis Caruncho and Álvaro Delgado. De la Pisa was the youngest member of the group and the only woman. In its defense of experimentalism and its rejection of the official attitude in the plastic arts, the theoretical contributions of José Luis Morales and the poet José Manuel Caballero Bonald, who also formed part of the group, were very important. Ruedo Ibérico organized several national and international exhibitions, the most important of which was held at the Centro Cultural de la Villa (Madrid) in 1991. In the 1990s he incorporated collage and acrylic into his technique (instead of oil, which he had used until then). In the mid-2000s he began to develop his works also from photographs.