Juan Genoves

Trained at the Valencia Art College Genoves was always an inquiring painter, concerned both with the need to renovate Spanish art and also with the function of art and the artist in society.

His firm conviction that art was transforming, and his concern for his environment lead him to join several important movements in the post war Spanish art scene: Los Siete (The Seven) 1949, Parpallos (1956) and Hondo (1960).

It was in this last group that presented a new approach to figurative painting opposing Informalism, that Genoves developed a style of painting that was expressionist and provocative.

During the sixties Genoves had a creative crisis which he got over quickly.

He became very involved in the opposition movements of the time against the Franco regime.

He has been awarded the Honourable Mention at the XXXIII Venice Biennial in 1966, the Gold Medal at the VI San Marino International Biennial in 1967, the International Marzotto Prize in 1968, the Spanish National Art Prize in 1984, the Valencian Art Prize in 2002, the Gold medal for merit in the Arts by the Spanish Culture Department in 2005.