Pedro Maria Asencio

PEDRO MARÍA ASENSIO - Book I

Biografía del Artista: Pedro María Asensio was born in Cuenca in 1950. Under the influence of the environment of the Museum of Abstract Art, he soon discovered that painting was his true calling. At the end of the 1970s, he settled on the island of Ibiza, where he would develop a large part of his artistic career. From very early on, Asensio's artistic vision followed two paths that, although they seem divergent, come together in multiple aspects: a rationalist and transcendent tendency that links with the search for the purity of Geometric Abstraction and another, more social and less self-absorbed, which has the human being and his circumstances as an object of conceptual expression. In addition to painting, her work includes installations, sculpture, artist books, prints, digital art and objet trouvé. Notable works include her collaborations in artistic interventions in museums and public spaces, literary works, video art, tapestry design, theatre sets and, until 2010, her work in education and dissemination of artistic expression. He was a founding member of the Ibizan branch of the Association of Visual Artists of the Balearic Islands, a member of the IbizArtGrup and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Ibiza (MACE). He has collaborated regularly with the Institut Ramon Llull, the Institut d´Estudis Balearics and the Associació d'Amics de l'Art Contemporani de les Illes Balears in national and international travelling exhibitions. He has carried out artistic stays and training periods in Berlin (1986), Denmark (1999), New York (2000), Rome (2004) and India (2023). In 2013 he opened a workshop in Madrid and since then he has worked between Ibiza, Madrid and Cuenca. His work has been exhibited and recognized in numerous exhibitions, both individual and collective, inside and outside Spain, forming part of public and private collections. Among his solo exhibitions, the following stand out: Temporary Provisions (1992-1995), 28 Grams (1996) and Irreparables (1996). for the Sa Nostra Foundation; Lost Futures (2005) and Autarchy (2019) for the Official College of Architects of the Balearic Islands (COAIB)) at its headquarters in Eivissa; Espacio Límite (2015-2016) in the Community of Madrid; Unsustainable Development (2017) and It's Not Always Blue (2022) for the Baleària Foundation; Enneagrams (2008) for the Diario de Ibiza; The Silence of the Hours (2011) and Vanishing Point (2021) for the Consell d´Eivissa; Oceà Interior (2022) for the Consell de Formentera; Paths of Light (2022) and Anatomy of the Shadow (2022) for the Antonio Pérez Foundation in Cuenca; Chromatic Dispersion (2023) for the Est_art Gallery in Madrid and Hipogeu 4004 (2023) for the Archaeological Museum of Eivissa and Formentera (MAEF) at its headquarters at the Puig des Molins Monographic Museum.