JORGE CASTILLO CASALDERREY (Pontevedra, 1933). "Child with Hare s Ears". New York, 1985. Oil on canvas. Signed in the upper left corner. Measurements: 177 x 152 cm. In this painting made in the mid-eighties, Jorge Castillo makes different planes of reality coincide on the canvas. Minimal geometries, still life pieces and a child disguised as a hare materialise this overlapping of realities, which we access through the fragmentary. The animalistic theme associated with childhood was one of the themes that Castillo repeatedly dealt with in a mysterious and almost dreamlike manner. As a child, Jorge Castillo was passionate about drawing, and at the age of ten he made his first copy of Rubens with coloured pencils. According to Castillo, Rubens painting taught him to understand the cubism of Braque and Picasso. His family emigrated to Buenos Aires the year after the painter was born, but he returned to Europe. He tried to go to Paris, but due to lack of financial resources he settled in Spain. After passing through Vigo he settled in Madrid in 1957, where he soon came into contact with the art critic José María Moreno Galván, who admired his work and introduced him to Madrid s artistic circles. In 1958 he began to sell his drawings at the Biosca gallery, and the painter Antonio Saura himself bought several of them. The following year he exhibited his works on paper and watercolours at the Altamira gallery in Madrid. Gradually he turned to the technique of engraving, which would eventually become his main means of expression, although he alternated it with painting. In 1960 he was selected for the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. From then on he exhibited his work internationally, in galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Lisbon, Turin, Hanover, Düsseldorf and Geneva. He took part in the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1976, and in 1970 he held a solo exhibition at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the first major museum exhibition devoted to a specific period of his career. He won prizes such as the International Drawing Prize (1964) and the International Painting Prize (1975) in Darmstadt, the Ciudad de Pontevedra Prize (1994) and the Cultura Viva de las Artes Plásticas (2006). He currently lives and works in Ibiza. Jorge Castillo s work can be seen in the Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, the Juan March Foundation, the National Galleries of Edinburgh and Berlin, the San Francisco and Vitoria Museums of Modern Art, the Kunsthalle in Bremen, the Albertina in Vienna, the National Library of Spain and the Guggenheim in New York, among others.