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Alejandro Quincoces
 Born
in 1951 in Spain's Basque country, where he still lives and works, Alejandro
Quincoces began his career as a self-taught artist at the early age of
16, when he started work as a commercial artist for advertising agencies,
supporting himself and his extended family. HIs formal training
in Fine Arts began in 1987, at the age of 36. Working
in oils and charcoal washes, Quincoces is much more than the quintessential
painter of enigmatic urban landscapes. This Bilbao-born artist abandoned,
at the beginning of the eighties, abstraction for objective and referential
painting. Yet despite their obvious references to known locations, his
paintings and graphite drawings offer the viewer a portrait that transcends
any specific place, carrying the psychological weight of the most expressive
abstract work. Their muted colours, the contrast of shapes and the discriminate
use of light give relief to a terrain where we can wander, evoking memories,
desires and misadventures. They are landscapes of forgetfulness, cities
of sleep where what could have occurred carries the weight of years.
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