MIGUEL ÁNGEL CAMPANO (Madrid, 1948 - 2018). "Untitled. Oil on paper. Signed in the lower central area. Size: 25,5 x 18 cm; 38 x 32 cm (frame). Miguel Ángel Campano is one of the referents of the so-called renovation of Spanish painting, which took place in the eighties and in which Ferrán García Sevilla, José Manuel Broto, José María Sicilia and Miquel Barceló also took part. In the 1970s he moved to Paris thanks to a scholarship; the planned year turned into a stay of more than ten years, where he lived and developed his brilliant pictorial career. He then went to live in Mallorca. In 1980 he took part in the exhibition Madrid DF, at the Municipal Museum of Madrid, together with several artists including the same ones who today - except for García Sevilla - accompany him at the Palacio de Velázquez. Five years later he was selected, together with other colleagues of his generation, then all young painters, such as Miquel Barceló, who was already a leading figure, and José María Sicilia, for a group exhibition in New York. In 1996 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas. He had just suffered a serious stroke and underwent surgery in Madrid. This forced him to spend several months without painting. He then painted "only in black", a very symbolic colour in his own words. Three years later the Reina Sofía Museum organised an exhibition in the same Palacio de Velázquez dedicated to his recent work, that of the 1990s. His works are exhibited in the most important museums, such as the British Museum in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía in Madrid.