Galería Cavecanem, Sevilla, Spain

Rafael Alberti Biography

Rafael Alberti

Cadiz, Spain 1902 -1999

Spanish born master painter, poet and printmaker whose creative output reflects a personal, life long dialogue between poetry and visual art.

A product of his age, Alberti's work began to reveal SURREALIST tendencies before this movement gained recognition through the work of Andre Breton. Alberti formed close friendships with Joan Miro, Antoni Tapies, Manolo Rivera, Antonio Saura, Robert Motherwell, Roberto Matta and collaborated with many of these artists.

Aberti's first collective EXHIBITION was held at the Salon Nacional de Otoño in Madrid in 1920. The artist exhibited in Montevideo and Buenos Aires throughout his exiles in Argentina in the 1940s and 50s and in Italy during his residency the in the 1960s. The artist continued to exhibit in nationally and internationally after his return to Spain in the 1970s. Alberti's drawings, etchings and engravings, produced in ?carpetas? (books or series) often in conjunction with the artist's poetry, have been influential in the world of graphic art.