12. Diego Ruíz Cortés

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12. Diego Ruíz Cortés

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Diego Ruiz Cortés was born in 1930 in La Puebla de Cazalla (Seville). Trained at the School of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría, he was an exponent of Sevillian painting in the second half of the twentieth century. From very early on he maintained a close friendship with the Moreno Galván brothers.

Ruiz Cortés begins within figuration, progressively approaching the abstract. In the work Prototype of man for the time to come, we observe a head with a classical cut. A series of files appear in his head, alluding in a critical way to an increasingly mechanized society.

The critic, José María Moreno Galván wrote about Diego Ruiz Cortés in a brochure for his exhibition in Madrid in 1961:

"I asked Diego Ruiz Cortés to allow me to write him these useless but unavoidable words. I had my reasons for doing so: the least important one refers to the critical exercise; the truly substantial one has to do with the fact that I have seen his youth grow up in his and my land. [...] there is a third reason, this one already of declared selfishness: that I want to be among the first to greet the appearance of an artist."