Joaquín Rubio Camín

(Gijón, Spain, 1929 – Gijón, Spain, 2007)

First exhibitions around 1947 In 1955 he won the National Prize for Painting and in 1962 the Grand Prize for Sculpture in the I National Plastic Arts Competition. Works in the Museums of Contemporary Art of Madrid, Seville, and Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca.

«Only the determining gesture of the angular already implies a sculpture. When Camín approaches the gradual reflective process of each of his works, the first contact is inevitably with a concrete form, with something that participates in a sculptural expression. Geometry descends from the concept to the objective, reincarnating itself in a dihedral, two planes joined at a ninety-degree angle. As a mathematical principle and as an adventure of space, the dihedral is a perfect solution in which all the multiple solutions of the science that inspires it could be seen, and in fact are seen. It is, at the same time, the archetypal figure, generator, among other beautiful dreams, of a sculptural materialisation». (Miguel Logroño)