Lucio Munoz
Lucio Munoz
Madrid,Spain, 1929 - 1998
Biography:
1929 Lucio Muñoz was born on December 27 in a house located on
Calle de la Salud 9, on the corner with Plaza del Carmen, in
Madrid. Son to Lucio Muñoz, shopkeeper, and Nicolasa Martínez,
he was the youngest of five children.
1935 His mother died.
1936 After having spent the first months of the Civil War in Madrid, he
was taken to Bolarque (Guadalajara) and from there, to his
mother’s village, Córcoles, also in the province of Guadalajara.
1939 He began his studies at the School of the Augustine Fathers on
Calle del Barco. In fourth grade he was expelled for having
cropped the fur of the stuffed bear in Natural Sciences class. He
then enrolled in a private academy, only to drop out soon after to
go to work at his father’s grocery shop, where he stayed on for a
year.
1946 He studied drawing with the painter and engraver Eduardo
Navarro.
1947 He took drawing classes from Eduardo Peña.
1949 He enrolled at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where he
received the Carmen del Río Special Award, the Martínez Cubells
Prize and the El Paular and Segovia Landscape Scholarship.
1954 He worked at the studio of the painter and poet Eduardo
Chicharro. He finished his studies and obtained a degree in Fine
Arts. During the class graduation trip to Paris he met Amalia Avia,
whom he married in 1960.
1955 He showed his work, together with painter Antonio López García
and sculptors Julio and Francisco López Hernández, at the
exhibition hall of the Directorate of Fine Arts.
He held his first one-man show at the Galería Dintel, in Santander:
first non-figurative works.
He received a grant from the French Government and travelled to
Paris, where he stayed until the end of 1956.
1956 He did his military service in Barcelona.
1957 The Galería Fernando Fe organised his first one-man show in
Madrid: paintings featuring a large amount of matter in which
exposed wood started to feature.
1958 He held an individual exhibition at the Madrid Athenaeum: first
works in carved wood.
1959 From this year on, his work began to feature in the most important
exhibitions of Spanish art organised around the world.
He showed his work at the Sao Paulo Biennial.
He signed an exclusive rights contract in Latin America with the
Galería Bonino of Buenos Aires, 1960-1964.
1960 He participated in the 30th Venice Biennial.
On January 15 he married Amalia Avia. His first child, Lucio, was
born on that same year.
He received the First Neblí Award for Painting.
1961 He celebrated his first one-man shows abroad: at the Galería
Bonino, in Buenos Aires, and the Joachim Gallery, in Chicago.
He produced a collection of xylographs entitled Los Madriles, with
which he initiated a long and acknowledged trajectory as an
engraver.1962 Winner of a national competition, he executed a 620 sq m mural
painting at the Basilica of Aránzazu (Guipúzcoa), with the
collaboration of the sculptor Julio L. Hernández and the painter
Joaquín Ramo.
He exhibited his work at the Staempfli Gallery.
His son Nicolás was born.
1963 His son Diego was born.
1964 The Galería Juana Mordó, to whose group of painters he belonged
from the outset, opened its doors. His work was featured at the
gallery’s first one-man show.
He won the Gold Medal at the Salzburg Biennial of Sacred Art for
the mural painting at the Basilica of Aránzazu and the Gólgota
triptych.
1965 He painted a 175 sq m mural at the Hostel of San Marcos, the
parador in León, for the execution of which he counted with the
collaboration of the sculptor Julio L. Hernández and the painter
Jaime Burguillos.
1966 His father died.
1967 He travelled to Cuba on occasion of the exhibition of his work at
the Casa de las Américas.
His son Rodrigo was born.
1969 He painted a mural at Mahón airport.
1972 He exhibited his work at the Kassel Documenta.
1973 He took part in the Basel fair, to which he returned in 1976, 1979
and 1989.
1975 Cristóbal Halffter’s composition, Tiempo para espacios, which
drew its inspiration from the work of Eduardo Chillida, Lucio
Muñoz, Manuel Rivera and Eduardo Sempere, was premiered in
Royan and Paris.
1982 He received the First Prize for Engraving at the Arteder Fair of
Engraving and at the Graphic Art fair in Bilbao.
He executed a mural painting at Barajas airport, Madrid.
1983 He received the National Award for the Plastic Arts.
1986 He executed a ceiling painting at the Casa del Cordón in Burgos.
1988 The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and
the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon presented a major
retrospective of his work.
1989 Lucio Muñoz, a monograph on his work, was published in 1989
by Lerner & Lerner in Madrid, and in 1991 by Rizzoli in New York.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao catalogued and organised an
exhibition of his complete graphic work.
1991 He signed an exclusive contract with the Marlborough Gallery.
1993 He was awarded the Gold Medal for Fine Arts.
1995 He executed two murals for the new European Union building in
Brussels.
1996 He received the Spanish Association of Art Critics Award.
1998 He executed a 12 x 11.5 m mural entitled Ciudad inacabada for
the chamber of the new Madrid Parliament
Exhibitions:
1998 ARCO’98, Madrid, Marlborough Gallery, Nueva York.
Marlborough Gallery, Nueva York.
Galería Aritza, Bilbao.
Forma y figuración. Obras maestras de la colección
Blake & Purnell, Fundación Guggenheim, Bilbao.
Propios y extraños, Galería Marlborough, Madrid.
FIA, Caracas, Venezuela, Galería Marlborough, Nueva
York.
FIAC, París, Galería Marlborough, Nueva York.
Galería Rayuela, Madrid.
Salón de los trece, Caja de Madrid, Sala Eloy Gonzalo,
Madrid.
Homenaje a Aurelio Biosca, Antiguo MEAC, Madrid.
La huella del 98 en la pintura española contemporánea,
Centro Cultural Cajastur, Gijón.
1999 ARCO’99, Madrid, Marlborough Gallery, Nueva York.
Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga (Portugal).
Grands d’Espagne de Picasso a Barceló, Chateau de
Villeneuve, Art Moderne et Contemporain. Vence (Francia).
2000 ARCO’00, Madrid, Marlborough Gallery, Nueva York.
Propios y extraños, Galería Marlborough, Madrid.
Vanguardias en la escultura española en madera, Sala
de Alhajas, Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid; Museo de
Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia.
Memoria y modernidad. Arte y artistas del siglo XX en
Castilla-La Mancha, Centro Cultural Conde Duque,
Madrid. Itinerancia organizada por Caja Castilla la
Mancha.
2001 ARCO’01, Madrid, Marlborough Gallery, Nueva York.
Medio siglo de arte gráfico en el Museo de Jaén (1945-
1995), Museo Provincial de Jaén, ’00-‘01.
Las claves de la España del siglo XX, Museo de las
Ciencias Príncipe Felipe, Valencia.
Propios y extraños, Galería Marlborough, Madrid.
Galería Vértice, Oviedo.
2002 ARCO’02, Madrid, Marlborough Gallery, Nueva York.
AENA. Colección de Arte Contemporáneo, Salas Kubo,
Caja de Guipúzcoa, San Sebastián.
El siglo de Picasso. El arte español del siglo XX, Galería
Nacional, Atenas, itinerante al Museo Nacional Centro
de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Circa XX. Colección Pilar Citoler, Centro de Exposiciones
y Congresos, Zaragoza.
Estampa, Madrid, Galería Nela Alberca.
I Subasta de arte contemporáneo UNICEF, Casa de
Cantabria, Madrid.
2003 ARCO’03. Madrid, Marlborough Gallery, Nueva York.
Art Espagnol Contemporain, Marlborough Monaco,
Mónaco.
El arte español del siglo XX, Museo del Corso, Roma.
Aena. Colección arte contemporáneo, Museo de Bellas
Artes, Santander.
Homenaje a Jaime Burguillos, Centro Cultural El Monte,
Sevilla.
2004 ARCO’04. Madrid, Marlborough Gallery, Nueva York.
