Abstract artist · 1926–1972
Abstract artist
Manolo Millares was an artist born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1926. He died in Madrid in 1972. A central figure in Spanish Informalism, he promoted LADAC in the Canary Islands and helped create the El Paso group.
Manuel Millares Sall was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1926. He is a key figure in Spanish Informalism, with a link to LADAC, Los Arqueros del Arte Contemporáneo, a group promoted in the Canary Islands in 1950.
In 1957 he took part in the creation of El Paso, a collective active in Madrid until 1960 and associated with the renewal of postwar Spanish art. His mature work is recognised for stitched, torn or mended burlap, with a palette marked by blacks, whites and reds.
His work carries a strong material and symbolic dimension: bodies, homunculi, mourning, violence and historical memory appear alongside his interest in the Canarian aboriginal past and in painting with strong expressive force. He died in Madrid in 1972.
