Collection: Amadeo Gabino
Amadeo Gabino (Valencia, 1922 - Madrid, 2004), son of the sculptor Alfonso Gabino, was a Spanish painter, sculptor and engraver.
He began his art studies at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia. He completed them in Rome, Paris, Hamburg and New York. At the end of the 40s he settled in Madrid and by obtaining scholarships between 1948 and 1959 he was able to reside in all those cities, getting to know the artistic avant-garde and interacting with the most significant artists and intellectuals of the moment: Lucio Fontana, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder , Alexander Archipenko, Louis Kahn and the Italian neohumanist sculptors Carlo Carrà, Giacomo Manzù and Marino Marini.
His work primarily consists of complex abstract metal objects and constructivist collages. Representing Spain, he participated in the 1956 and 1966 editions of the Venice Biennale. He showed his work in several exhibitions in Germany and Spain. In 1998, his monumental sculpture Homage to Anton Bruckner was erected in the Austrian city of Linz. He was the author of the exterior metal doors of the Casa del Cordón in Burgos.
