Biography

With his art, the Spanish gitano and artist Manolo Gómez Romero has found an adequate visual expression for flamenco and thus expanded this culture with a new facet of abstract art. The winner of the Premio de la Cultura Gitana 2012 succeeds in congenially translating the enigmatic duende state of flamenco into painting.

The works of the self-taught Manolo Gómez, although mostly formally abstract, are an expression of his own way of depicting his attitude to life and his surroundings. Sometimes, says the artist, they show what it means to be a Gitano. They are an attempt to depict the ancient emotions of the culture of the Spanish Gitanos in a contemporary way through vibrations, abstract expression and by means of dynamic colour throws, for example the inexplicable state of duende between audience and artists at flamenco.
Gómez's work has therefore rightly been compared to the quejío, the special song of the cante flamenco, reminiscent of a scream.

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Manolo Gómez . Exhibitions (selection)

2024
RʳOMA LEPANTO, Palazzo Bembo, Venedig, IT
2022
Sammlung Kai Dikhas 2022, Stiftung Kai Dikhas, Berlin, (Germany)
 
Manolo Gómez . Ya es hora – Now is the time, ERIAC, Berlin, (Germany)
2019
STOPPING PLACE VII, Galerie Kai Dikhas Berlin (Germany)
 
Akathe Te Beshen . Atchin Tan, Akademie der Künste Berlin (Germany)
2016
Frei Sein! . Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin (Germany)
 
Akathe Te Beshen . J'y suis, j'y reste, 59 Rivoli Paris (France)
2015
STOPPING PLACES V, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin (Germany)
 
GUIÑO . Special exhibition at Kunstraum Dikhas Dur and TAK-Foyer. Berlin (Germany)
 
Galería Ignacio de Lassaletta (Barcelona, Spain) junto con obras del ceramista Josep Llorens Artigas
2014
INTUITION.URSPRUNG Galerie Kai Dikhas. Berlin (solo)
2012
Award. Premio de la Cultura Gitana der Fundación Instituto de Cultura Gitana. Madrid (Spain)
2011
Galerie Puntoaparte. Barcelona (Spain)
2009
Galeria Sa Pleta Freda. Son Servera/Mallorca (Spain)
2008
Art Space La Carbonera espai d'art. Barcelona (Spain)
2007
FAIM Art Madrid (Spain)
 
Semana de la cultura gitana. Universität Jaén (Spain)
2006
Ca Revolta. Valenzia (Spain)
2005
Art Space La Carbonera espai d'art. Barcelona (Spain)
2004
Roma Culture Month. Zafra (Spain)
2003
Galería Ignacio de Lassaletta. Barcelona (Spain}
 
Decor-Art. Sala de Arte. Zaragoza   (Spain)
2002
Collective Espai Marc. Barcelona (Spain)
 
Galeria Sa Pleta Freda. Son Servera/Mallorca (Spain)
2001
Fundació Josep Llorens Artigas. Gallifa (Spain)