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Pelayo Ortega, Last Vision, 2006 (Detail). Masaveu Collection © Pelayo Ortega, VEGAP, Madrid, 2025
©  Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson. Author: Marcos Morilla

20TH-CENTURY ASTURIAN ART IN THE MASAVEU COLLECTION
(II): PELAYO ORTEGA

FMCMP MADRID CENTRE
23 APRIL, 2025 – 20, JULY, 2025

 

The Masaveu Collection, which is particularly focused on Spanish art, is well represented by Asturian artists of the 1600s to the 2000s. Although some are included in the exhibition Masaveu Collection. Spanish 20th-Century Art. From Picasso to Barceló on view at the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson in Madrid since October 2024, we have staged a parallel monographic display in a separate room, where works by 20th-century Asturian artists in the Masaveu collections will be shown periodically to lend visibility to these holdings.

Following the presentation of three works by Orlando Pelayo and José María Navascués in October 2024, this second display is devoted to Pelayo Ortega (Mieres, 1956), one of the leading Asturian painters on today’s scene. Based since 1990 in Gijón, from where he has earned nationwide and international fame, this painter, printmaker and sculptor produces refined, pared-down works which have evolved from the minimalism of his early years to a personal figurative style.

PELAYO ORTEGA (MIERES, ASTURIAS, 1956)

Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Pelayo Ortega lives and works in Gijón and is the most international of living Asturian artists after a successful career of four decades.The uniqueness of his ethics and aesthetics has always stood out with the public and critics, thanks to the Gijón Cornión gallery and, since 1998, on the payroll of the international Marlborough Gallery.His energetic artistic vision, his understanding of the physics of painting, his ability to alternate between figuration and abstraction, color, geometry, drawing and stain have made him one of the most unique artists on today’s scene.He has received numerous prizes, fellowships and awards, including among others, the Francisco de Goya prize of the Autonomous Community of Madrid (2011), Culture Prize of the newspaper El Comercio (2006), Carreño Miranda Merit Award in the Arts (2003), XXXVI Prix International d’Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo (2002), Prize in the XXVI Luarca Competition (1995), Santa Lucía Painting Prize of Madrid (1991), Festivals of Navarra Prize (1991), Endesa Fellowship (1990) and First National Publishing Award (Bibliofilia) of the Ministry of Culture for the book Semblanza de Gijón (1989).

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