Luis Feito biography

Luis Feito was a painter and a Spanish artist and is among the main exponents of abstract art. He was born in Madrid in 1929. He attended the Higher School of Fine Arts of San Fernando and in 1953 went to Paris thanks to a scholarship from the French government. In Paris, where he would stay 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. In the same period, he met and established collaborative relationships with some of his compatriots with whom he later founded the El Paso movement, which also included Manolo Millares, Manuel Rivera, Antonio Saura, and Antoni Tapies.
The works of this period are characterized by material surfaces with white, black, and ochre colors made by mixing oil and sand. In 1962, with the introduction of red color and circular structures, he laid the foundations for a geometric abstractionism that would characterize all his production in the Seventies. In this decade, dominated by compositions with circles, Feito's level of abstraction was such that his works had no titles but were 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.