ANTON EGUIGUREN PINTOR

Antón Eguiguren was born in Zumaia in 1946. At the age of 14 he began to show a broad artistic ability. He taught himself to paint, first small-format paintings, which he gradually increased. From a very young age he studied and worked in the avant-garde of art and together with his brother Ramón, he was recognised as the innovator of the artistic panorama of his town.
In the 1960s he investigated drawing, painting, photography and artistic cinema, within which he made some short films and some works that caused a great impact due to their daring. It was striking that at that time and surrounded by an industrial and classic environment he was able to develop a creativity and originality that would be present throughout his life and his works.
He had to choose a main profession within his affinities for art and he decided on photography and with his family he moved to Barcelona where he also settled with his brother Ramón, developing with notable success, most of his professional life in the audiovisual world of photography, computer graphics, cinema and advertising.
The celluloid arts especially occupied his time and dedication, with excellent artistic results and important diffusion and recognition, but he never left painting, he only had a parenthesis of exhibitions, after which he returned with greater force.
In 1994 he presented an anthological exhibition in Zumaia that he presented from its beginnings in 1961 with the projection of his controversial short films until his latest productions.
With the passage of time, the avant-garde and the daring of the nudes became more blurred, but his photographic works continued to retain an aura of mystery, sensuality and great technical skill.
Antón Eguiguren is an artist with almost 60 years of experience, with a very particular contemporary style, with a great colorful impact in his painting, whose large-format oil and acrylic works, mostly of female models, are characterized by strong, flat colors, delimited by thick strokes and which in recent years have also given way to black and white.
In some of his exhibitions he shows an anthology of his oil paintings from 1962, which he still has, entitled “Woman with a guitar,” which accompanies his current work and allows us to appreciate the evolution of the painter's style.
Antón Eguiguren is a very well-known artist and has held multiple exhibitions: in Zumaia, Zarautz, San Sebastián, Bilbao, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​London and New York, and since 2001 he has held a unique permanent exhibition at the Landarte Hotel in Zumaia, a mixture of painting and sculpture where the work varies according to the position of the viewer in front of it.