(Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 1925 – Madrid, Spain, 2019)
He studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, Madrid. Later in Paris and London. In 1957 he joined the “El Paso” Group. Exhibitions in the most important capitals of the world. His works have been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, the Museum of Contemporary Art of New York, the Museum of Abstract Art of Las Casas Colgadas of Cuenca, the Middelheim Museum of Antwerp, etc.
“Chirino is one of the few Spanish sculptors who has been able to find an expressive formula that synthesises the most current spatial concerns with a Spanish tradition that has unfortunately been forgotten in recent years: forging. From the old Spanish blacksmiths who left their best mark on the magnificent grilles of our cathedrals, through Gaudí and Julio González, Chirino participates in a very personal way in this new expressive possibility, made of rusticity, restraint, and austere violence, in which a future Spanish and universal sculpture is intuited”. (Antonio Saura).