15. Bonifacio

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15. Bonifacio

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Bonifacio Alfonso Gómez Fernández was born in San Sebastián in 1933 and is one of the most outstanding artists of his time in the Basque context. He developed his work within informalism with elements of surrealism. Linked to the Abstract School of Cuenca through the artist Fernando Zóbel, he developed his career there, in a convulsive political moment in which artistic education in the Basque Country was almost non-existent.

The piece entitled They say she sleeps alone is dedicated to Francisco Moreno Galván. A flamenco lyric springs from a figure that unequivocally alludes to the thoughts and longing for love, real or figurative. The critic, José María Moreno Galván, writes about Bonifacio in the magazine Triunfo:

" We notice the gesticulative force, the barbarian strikethrough and even a certain argumentative aggressiveness that denounces, yes, a certainly expressionist progeny. [...] We discover underneath his painterly investiture the "jondo" force of his primordial reality, the one that breaks - like the cry of the melody - what he pretends to be, in the beginning: harmonious and measured, with the cardinal and gesticulative tearing of handwriting hardened by his nervousness; the one that gives all the emphasis to graphology over calligraphy."