Eduardo Gregorio López Martín

Eduardo Gregorio began carving wood as a teenager and entered the newly founded Escuela de Artes Decorativas Luján Pérez in 1918. There he trained with Nicolás Massieu, Juan Carló and Enrique García Cañas. After Juan Carló's death, he took over the school's directorship in 1927 and maintained important teaching work until leaving Gran Canaria in 1947.

His early carvings of peasant women, fishermen, sailors and maternities helped shape Canarian indigenism, understood as a search for types, materials and references linked to island territory. During stays in Catalonia and Tangier he developed a more synthetic and stylised sculpture, working in ebony, alabaster and other materials. In 1955 he took part in the Third Hispano-American Biennial with El ángel que anunció la primavera.

Between 1957 and 1963 he worked in Venezuela as a sculpture and ceramics teacher at institutions in Caracas and Valencia. There he came into contact with constructive and kinetic currents, which he brought to geometric work and a significant ceramic investigation. Back in Las Palmas, he continued creating small-format work and participated in the 1973 International Street Sculpture Exhibition, where Macla was installed in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.