Eduardo Barco graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1994, after an Erasmus scholarship in the Dutch city of Den Bosch in 1992-93. He subsequently obtained a plastic arts scholarship from the Ministry of Culture in Paris (1999) and a further scholarship from the Harriet & Esteban Vicente Foundation to attend the Yaddo Residency in New York State (2003). On completing his education and training, he set up a studio in Madrid and began producing geometrically-based paintings in the late 1990s. His early works feature recycled industrial materials such as burlap and canvas as expressive backings for superimposed, overlapping, clear fields of colour forming grid patterns that create tension between material and form, between colour and movement and between emptiness and fullness. In the mid 2000s he began to work with plastic sheeting and enamelled surfaces, rendering his geometrical shapes independent of the supporting medium and distancing them from the background, and with curved segments that clashed with more rigid geometrical shapes such as squares and rectangles. He continued to explore combinations of these elements to create unique images as a language of signs, subsequently extending that exploration to the fields of sculpture and, more recently, architecture.
He has staged numerous solo exhibitions since the 1990s, among which those at the Egam Gallery in Madrid stand out. His work has also been shown at collective exhibitions at the Ibero-American Museum of Spanish Art in Extremadura (Badajoz, 2003 & 2013), the Caja de Burgos Centre for Contemporary Art (2005) and the Círculo de Bellas Artes [‘Fine Arts Circle’] (Madrid, 2012).
Eduardo Barco graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1994, after an Erasmus scholarship in the Dutch city of Den Bosch in 1992-93. He subsequently obtained a plastic arts scholarship from the Ministry of Culture in Paris (1999) and a further scholarship from the Harriet & Esteban Vicente Foundation to attend the Yaddo Residency in New York State (2003). On completing his education and training, he set up a studio in Madrid and began producing geometrically-based paintings in the late 1990s. His early works feature recycled industrial materials such as burlap and canvas as expressive backings for superimposed, overlapping, clear fields of colour forming grid patterns that create tension between material and form, between colour and movement and between emptiness and fullness. In the mid 2000s he began to work with plastic sheeting and enamelled surfaces, rendering his geometrical shapes independent of the supporting medium and distancing them from the background, and with curved segments that clashed with more rigid geometrical shapes such as squares and rectangles. He continued to explore combinations of these elements to create unique images as a language of signs, subsequently extending that exploration to the fields of sculpture and, more recently, architecture.
He has staged numerous solo exhibitions since the 1990s, among which those at the Egam Gallery in Madrid stand out. His work has also been shown at collective exhibitions at the Ibero-American Museum of Spanish Art in Extremadura (Badajoz, 2003 & 2013), the Caja de Burgos Centre for Contemporary Art (2005) and the Círculo de Bellas Artes [‘Fine Arts Circle’] (Madrid, 2012).