Discover the contemporary work of Chemo

My name is Anselmo Gª de Polavieja (1955), but everyone knows me as Chemo. My relationship with the world of painting began very early. At the age of eleven, a bad relationship that went wrong put me aside until I was about nineteen, when I started painting murals at friends' houses,
in restaurants, private homes, etc. At twenty-four, I signed up
  Academia Peña in Madrid for a little over a year, then I went to Estudio Arjona, in Madrid, where I stayed for ten years, and that's where I acquired the technique to be able to get by with sufficient solvency. At that time, I participated in some local exhibitions, local exhibitions of which I have no reference. On the other hand, I developed my professional career as an advertising creative. Which took me away from from the world of advertising, I returned to mural painting as a work solution, specializing in children's painting, although I work sporadically in other areas. This whole process leaves my painting in a secondary situation, which demands more and more time. Little by little, I manage to give them.
As for exhibitions, I have done some quick painting competitions, some virtual exhibitions and one in Stuttgart for which I was selected by the Lanza platform, of which I am a member.

Today I continue to paint as often as my work allows me and I participate in some online exhibitions. The Internet, which does not allow me to present an exhaustive and consolidated CV, but I hope that these lines will be enough to show my pictorial soul.

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As for the approach to my work, I focus on the most minimalist abstraction possible, in order to reach the essence of the subject, which leads me to use straight and basic geometric shapes that bring me closer to cubism, even if not in its most complete sense. I also have other lines, on the one hand a more "loose" abstraction, more irrational or intuitive and, in between, several intermediate levels of abstraction, reaching in some cases the pure and hard figurative, which I do a little by contact with the roots and for a certain discipline. I work with all techniques, oil, acrylic, watercolor and, in the final paintings, to which only the ideas that gain weight in previous processes (sketches, studies, etc.) arrive, I like to work with textures.

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