From 24 February, visitors to the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias can see the Luis Fernández exhibition, a major retrospective that reaches the Asturian museum after a stint at the FMCMP Centre in Madrid. 

The exhibition was organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Asturian painter’s death on 25 October 2023. It is the most important one being dedicated to him in Spain and features around 150 paintings, drawings and works on paper, as well as a large quantity of documents, on loan from numerous collections in Spain, France and the United States.

Luis Fernández was a pioneer of geometric abstraction at the end of the 1920s. He also cultivated synthesis art in the early 1930s, frequented surrealism and Picassism between 1933 and 1944, and embraced a post-cubist style from 1944 to 1952 before going on to develop a personal style inspired by a quest for the essential and the absolute.

The Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias and the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson are grateful to all the institutions and individuals that have kindly loaned works for this project. Special thanks are owed to the artist’s family and to the Fundación Telefónica, which has loaned 19 works and, at the end of last century, became one of the first institutions in Spain to devote attention to the artist and his work.

The retrospective will be on display at the Asturian museum until 26 May 2024. Further details are available on the museum website.