Painter and visual artist · 1952-present
Painter and visual artist
Fernando Álamo González is a painter and visual artist born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1952. He has lived in Gran Canaria since 1977, and his work belongs to the renewal of Canarian art that began in the 1970s.
Fernando Álamo studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Santa Cruz de Tenerife from 1969 to 1972. The exhibition La opresión de los sentidos, presented in the basements of Castillo de Paso Alto in 1972, is an early milestone in his career: the CAAM relates it to the critical sensibility of the final years of the dictatorship and Spain's democratic transition.
After settling in Gran Canaria in 1977, he developed work that the CAAM describes as expressive and open to collage, irony and quotation. The museum also notes that the artist himself does not identify with a fixed group or movement. This profile retains that caution: it records practices and exhibitions rather than a conclusive stylistic label.
In 2010 he presented 532 flores, an exhibition devoted to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and was named an Adopted Son of the city. The 2014 Canary Islands Prize for Fine Arts and Performance recognised the breadth and intensity of his poetics, according to the jury. His solo and group exhibitions have taken place in the archipelago and in cities including Madrid, Munich, Havana and Jerusalem.
