Nonagenarian exhibition

The artist Fernando Baquero returns to exhibit at the Casa de Cultura in Calpe twenty years after his last exhibition at the facility. The exhibition will open its doors on March 4, with the name “Fernando Baquero, 90 years of art”.

Baquero was born in Aranjuez, and began painting at the age of 13. He trained in Barcelona, was a teacher, and in the 1960’s he travelled to Germany where he began to work as a cartoonist with a prestigious newspaper. For many years he was also the advertising director of Phillips, and he also worked for the Prado Museum.

In the 1970’s, he retired and fulfilled his dream of settling in Calpe, a town that had already fallen in love with him. Calpe rock fascinated him from the start, and has painted it many times. At that time, he was the first painter who exhibited in Calpe, in a gallery donated by the town hall in Calle La Fuente. He taught painting in Calpe and is also the author of the Vicente Gallard street mural he created in the 1990’s.

Baquero has participated in many national painting competitions, has won awards, and exhibited throughout Spain. Today his work is distributed in public and private collections in Spain, Latin America, Switzerland, France, Germany, and more.

In this exhibition, visitors will be able to understand the artist's pictorial trajectory, from his first cartoons to his well-known landscapes of Aranjuez, in which he shows an absolute mastery of colour and stroke. Nor will his landscapes on Calpe be missing, with his very personal vision of the Ifach, where he finds the face of a mystical Christ, or his autumn colours. The artist tells us that “some of the paintings in Calpe's exhibition have not been seen in any exhibition, they are unpublished.”

At age 90, Baquero continues to paint every day, “with age, creativity does not end, on the contrary, I think I paint better now”, he said. With this exhibition, he pays tribute to his beloved Calpe, whom he fell in love with in 1969 and in which he continues to find his inspiration.