PEDRO CANO - “Cyrene (Libya)” - 2008

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Watercolour painting on handmade paper.
A large watercolour painting representing the ancient ruins of Cyrene, in Libya. Rome, which Pedro Cano looks for and finds again, following the Mediterranean route accross Libya and Morocco, using the watercolour technique; trying to capture the time that had been lost through a ritual restitution of reality, preserving the absolute grandeur of the fragment and the transience of the past.
A great work!

PEDRO CANO (1944)
An international artist born in Blanca, in southern Spain.
In 1969 he won a three-year scholarship at The Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, located in the former Franciscan Convent of Saint Peter in Montorio on the Janiculum Hill. In his own words: “It was such a wonderful thing having Bramante’s Tempietto in our own house courtyard!”
He is one of the greatest Spanish contemporary painters; an absolute master of watercolour technique. He started painting at a young age and in 1964 he moved to Madrid, where he attended San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. As previously mentioned, in 1969 he won the Prix de Rome scholarship at The Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. In 1976 he travelled across Latin America and this experience inspired him to create a series of paintings entitled “Travel diary”, exhibited in Rome, Milan, Bari, Bolzano, and Salizburg. During the ‘80s he moved to New York, where he stayed more than 5 years, exhibiting in Dallas, New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles.
In 2000 a series of large canvases were shown at the Palace of the Normans in Palermo. Afterwards, in 2005, he exhibits once again in Palermo a watercolour series illustrating the novel “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino (after Murcia and Rome). Among his numerous works, which are either privately owned or exhibited in Museums all over the world, as a large canvas property of the Vatican Museum and a self portrait exhibited in the Vasari Corridor at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

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Measurements (in centimeters): 50 x 70

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