Luis Palmero

La Laguna (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) 1957

By: Frederic Montornés

The passion of this artist from the Canary Islands for colour and minimal, geometric alignments would lead him to delve into the beating heart of painting. This enables him to draw on the field of emotion to evoke the simulation of space within which the consciousness is developed. Palmero’s work focuses on studying colour and form and approaches space from its purest essence.

Since his first exhibition at Ateneo de La Laguna (Tenerife, 1978), Palmero’s work has been shown at solo and group events in Spain and abroad, including solo shows at La Regenta Art Centre (Las Palmas) and La Granja Art Centre (Tenerife), both in 2000, at La Recova Art Centre (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2005) and at Espacio Salesas in Madrid in 2012. Group exhibitions featuring his works include those at the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Municipal Museum (1983); the Spanish Cultural Institute in Vienna (1985); the Tenerife Professional Association of Architects (1987); the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, 1993); the Atlantic Centre of Modern Art (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1997); and the International Art Museum of Lanzarote (2009). His works are held in domestic and international collections such as those of the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), the Contemporary Art Collections of the Canary Island Regional Ministry of Education and Culture, the Valencia Institute of Modern (Valencia), the Atlantic Centre of Modern Art (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and the Testimoni Collection at ‘la Caixa’ Foundation (Barcelona).