ILDEFONSO AGUILAR DE LA RÚA
ILDEFONSO AGUILAR DE LA RÚA
Salamanca 1945, Spain
Lives in Lanzarote. Graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Multidisciplinary artist linked to the landscape and nature of Lanzarote, the island where he lives. Extensive and brilliant career that has led him to be named a full member of the Royal Canarian Academy of Fine Arts, Gold Medal of the Canary Islands…
places of ice and lava
He uses painting as the main axis of his expression but develops other media such as music, photography, installation and intervention in natural spaces; always capturing in his work the geological essence (lava, rocks, soil…) of Lanzarote, using natural sands typical of the island. A contemporary, integral, intellectual, sensorial work… all associated with the landscape, recently also with that of Iceland, bare, austere landscapes, of great strength and plastic beauty.
The artist, bordering on abstraction, pours onto his boards the aesthetic concept, personalized by his sensations and feelings of the place.