Cristóbal Gabarrón was born in Mula (Murcia) in 1945. He moved to Valladolid in 1951. He has been living half between USA and Spain since 1986.

He devoted himself to painting, and offered his first exhibition in 1964, in which he showed figurative paintings of nature and rural surroundings. However, he quickly developed a tendency to abstraction, as well as informalism, until he created a personal interpretation style. From here on, exhibitions follow one another all over Spain, and immediately after that, he started to present some others abroad.

His prestige increased on the 70’s, until the present time, when he is considered by the international criticism as one of the most representative artist of the last generations in Spain. As Fernando Castro Flórez alluded to, “since the 80’s, Gabarrón has intensified his plastic approaches, through an aesthetic outlook with a dominant figurative feature. It is of course true that his contextual position is, thanks to styling and very personal deformations, heterodox once again, during a period in which neo-expressionist or avant-garde proposals lost ground to the post-conceptualism offence or, overall, to an orthodoxy that tried to refute, as anachronistic, any method characterized by representative features”.

Besides the aforementioned works, there are some others that have become the emblem of several universal events, as the official Stamp commemorating the International Year of Peace (WFUNA), the mural “Encuentro’92” in Seville’s Plaza de America on the occasion of the Expo ‘92, some works for the IOC and his presence in the European Parliament and the UN, which has aroused an international interest.

Cristobal Gabarrón :: Galery (click to enlarge)