The Kubo Kutxa hall in San Sebastián hosts, from this Friday until May 22, the retrospective exhibition of the artist JOsé Antonio Sistiaga (San Sebastián, 1932), initiator of the Gaur group in 1965, ‘De rerum natura’, whose common thread is his relationship with nature and in which his evolution in “informal abstract painting” and his incursion into the experimental cinema with the film ‘ere erera baleibu izic subua aruarene’, the first hand-painted directly on celluloid in the history of cinema and made over 17 months between 1968 and 1970.
The exhibition can be visited, with free admission, from Tuesday to Sunday from twelve to two and from four to eight.
Sistiaga, interested in art since his youth, passed through Paris in the 1950s where he met the painter Manuel Duque, who would exert an important influence on him. Already in 1958 he exhibited figurative paintings in San Sebastian and a year later in Paris.
Since then he has exhibited all over the world. In the 1960s, he opened the Free Expression Workshop in San Sebastián, together with Esther Ferrer. In addition, he participated in the founding of the Gaur group in 1966.
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