Jesús Mari Lazkano

Who is Jesús Mari Lazkano?

Jesús Mari Lazkano is a Spanish Basque painter. He graduated in fine arts from the University of the Basque Country and has had exhibitions in Europe, America and Asia. Jesus Mari Lazkano works in successive series linking architecture and landscape. Professor of Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country. PHD in 1994 by the Basque Country University. His painting is part of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum collection.

In 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao held a major retrospective of his last 10 years of work. Large format works in public spaces, such as the Opera Euskalduna, Intermodal Station Renfe, Aula Magna University of the Basque Country in Leioa. Parliament of the Basque Country, or the Iberdrola Tower by architect Cesar Pelli, a piece of 6 x 15 meters located in the lobby.

A brief tour of the series:

From architecture to nature 2006−2012

It is a work generated from the experience at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao and exposed in the same place. The museum like a creative space. Museum space itself as a generator of images. Interferences of history and stories, weather, and its products, building new and old, interference and enhancement.