October 28th, 2015
Gallerist Isabel Bilbao (on the right} at the opening at Next-Estate offices on Friday
Artist Fernando de la Cueva at the opening at Next-Estate offices on Friday
An art exhibit entitled ‘Heimat in Himmel ‘ by the Spanish artist Fernando de la Cueva opened at the Berlin Offices of NEXT ESTATE on Friday the 23rd October . The show will remain until June 2016 . It is presented by NEXT ESTATE in cooperation with the IB ISABEL BILBAO Galerie.
NEXT ESTATE, Kollwitzstraße 38, 10405 Berlin,
Next Estate GmbH is a Berlin based Real Estate company that focuses on the local Berlin real estate requirements of clients in Germany and worldwide.
About the artist –
“The artist Fernando de la Cueva, was born in Madrid in 1953, and has been interested in aviation his whole life. He is a sailplane and private pilot and cooperates with Madrid based Infante de Orleans Foundation, that is dedicated to preserving and flying old airplanes in Spain.
He stood out in drawing classes from his childhood, and in 1971 he graduated from Needham High School, Massachusetts, He had been drawing and painting since he can recall, but his true art vocation surfaced about twenty years ago, and ever since, he has been painting only aeronautical themes.
He has done covers and illustrations for books and specialised magazines. He has pioneered in Spain the painting of Spanish Civil War scenes that have led to limited edition prints signed by prominent pilots from both sides of the conflict. He has held many one-man exhibitions devoted exclusively to Aviation, winning both 1st and 2nd prices at the Spanish Air Force Art Contest, and took Best of Show at the 2004 Art Contest in the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida, USA.
He paints mainly in acrylics and his work can be found in public and private collections in Europe and the U.S.A. He is an American Society of Aviation Artists (ASAA) Artist Fellow, being the only Spaniard up to date to have achieved that honor. His aim is to promote aviation art, making his paintings attractive to people who are not familiar with this topic. In order to achieve this, he is composing part of his latest works with more or less classical renditions of aeronautical subjects along with textures and less orthodox light and color techniques in extreme landscape and diptych formats.
His works can be found in private collections of Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, Venezuela and the U.S.A., and also in official centers, Aerospace companies and Aeronautical Museums.”
You can visit his website directly at – http://www.fernandodelacueva.com/
He is also popular in Switzerland which you can see here – http://www.lw.admin.ch/internet/luftwaffe/de/home/dokumentation/culture/acryl.html
The IB ISABEL BILBAO Galerie has their website at –http://www.isabelbilbao.com/