RICARDO ALARIO

The artist

Ricardo Alario was born in Quart de Poblet. Valencia 1959 and lives in Marbella since 1964. He started off his painting career guided by the landscape maestro San Juan Perdiguero. He attended as independent candidate the School of Arts and Crafts of Seville and Granada. In 1984 he performed his first screen printing series in his own studio. He has coordinated and managed various exhibiting spaces that have invigorated Marbella’s artistic offer such as Galeria Akelarre and Galeria Silvart. Since the opening of his studio in 1982, he has organised a wide range of exhibitions where many local artists taught and currently teach techniques in various specialised workshops. A large number of young people have trained with Ricardo and currently hold degrees in Fine Arts, Architecture or have become designers or artists with an exhibiting activity.

Alario has demonstrated his creativity as graphic designer and his pictorial originality in all the covers, invitations and posters of the numerous exhibitions he has organised. His eagerness to better himself and his intellectual preoccupations have taken him to create a new artistic process, that he has called “siembra” (sowing) obtaining wonderful works of art through the oxidation and transformation of natural pigments buried under grown during a period of time. He has taken part and set in motion several collective projects with other artists, not only from Marbella but also from other places. He has performed a remarkable muralist activity, which ranges from walls to domes in private buildings in Marbella.

Bibliography

Jose Manuel Valles Edition by Mario Antolin Diccionario de pintores y escultores del S.XX (Dictionary of painters and sculptures of the 20th Century)
Francisco Jose Palomo Diaz “La estampa de Malaga en el siglo XX” (Malaga prints in the 20th century)

Jose Maria Luna Aguilar “Contradicciones de azul y oxido (Blue and oxide contradictions) Catalogue preface of exhibition in Casa Fuerte de Bezmiliana, Rincon de la Victoria.

Galleret Vasterbottens Konstforening, Umea, Sweden. (Group) 1990
Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid 1993

Feria Estampa, Museo Contemporáneo del Grabado Español, Madrid 1994
Artistas plásticos contemporáneos en el Estrecho de Gibraltar. Spanish Institute, New York, 2000

“Haiku”. Centro Cultural Hispano-Japonés. Salamanca. (Group) 2002
Taller Gravura. Málaga.2002, Galería De Conick. (Group). Holland, 2006