JUAN RIBERA BERENGUER, (Valencia, 1935 - Valencia, 2016).
"Still life of pots".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower area. Signed and dated on the back.
Size: 45 x 39 cm; 58 x 52 cm (frame).
Trained at the Valencia School of Fine Arts, Juan Ribera was a founding member of artistic groups such as Parpalló, Arte Actual and Movimiento Artístico del Mediterráneo. He has been part of the artistic avant-garde in Valencia and Madrid, participating in the exhibitions of the Juan Mordó gallery. He had solo exhibitions at the Dirección General de Bellas Artes in Madrid (1969) and the Museo de la Ciudad de Valencia (1998), among other centres, and participated in important group exhibitions such as those held at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (1963), "Pintores figurativos de la España actual" (1964), which toured the United States, and the IVAM in Valencia. Throughout his career he has received pensions from the Diputación and the Valencia City Council, the Casa Velázquez in Madrid and the March Foundation, and has been awarded the Valencia Prize at the Fine Arts Exhibition in Barcelona (1960), the Diputación de Valencia at the National Exhibition in Madrid (1968), the gold medal at the Salón de Marzo in Valencia (1977) and the Archival Prize for artistic merit (1995), among others. Ribera is represented in the San Pío V Museum in Valencia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vilafamés, the Municipal Museum and the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the Springfield Museum (Massachusetts), the cathedral, the Diputación, the Ateneo and the City Museum of Valencia, etc.