LUIS DONE OPERATE

Luis Feito was a painter and a Spanish artist and is among the main exponents of abstractionism. He was born in Madrid in 1929. He attended the San Fernando School of Fine Arts and in 1953 went to Paris thanks to a scholarship from the French government. In Paris, where he would remain for 25 years, he began to associate with artists such as Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Serge Poliakoff, Mark Rothko and other exponents of Art Informel. During the same period, he met and established collaborative relationships with some of his compatriots with whom he would later found the El Paso movement, which would also include Manolo Millares, Manuel Rivera, Antonio Saura and Antoni Tapies.
The works of this period are characterized by textured surfaces with white, black, and ochre colors created by mixing oil and sand. In 1962, with the introduction of red color and circular structures, he laid the foundations for a geometric abstraction that would characterize all his production in the Seventies. In this decade, dominated by compositions with circles, Feito's level of abstraction will be such that his works will have no title but will be identified only by numbers.
In 1985, he was appointed Officer of Arts and Letters of France and in 1988 the MEAC of Madrid dedicated a large retrospective to him. Luis Feito died in Paris in 2021.