Pedro Cano Biography
Pedro Cano (1944 - ) was born in Blanca, a small town in Murcia in southern Spain, in 1944. He began painting as a self-taught artist and worked very intensely, especially large landscapes. In 1964 he moved to Madrid where he attended the San Fernando School of Fine Arts. During these years he showed a profound interest in the city suburbs and in the daily news which he would then translate onto canvas and paper in a poetic way. In 1968 he went to Italy for the first time and visited Venice and the Biennale and then Florence and Rome. In 1969 he won the “Prix de Rome” at the Spanish Academy in Rome, where he resided for three years. Cano travels tirelessly around Europe and finds a constant point of reference in Greece, where he often loves to return. In 1972 he inaugurated his first solo exhibition in Murcia and, in the same year, he moved from Rome to Anguillara Sabazia on Lake Bracciano. In 1974 he exhibited for the first time in Rome at the Galleria Giulia. Traveler by vocation and nature, he crossed Latin America in 1976. Upon returning to Italy, the extraordinary experience of that trip allowed him to create a pictorial cycle entitled "Travel Journal" which was exhibited in Rome, Milan, Bari, Villach, Bolzano and Salzburg. In 2010, the Pedro Cano Foundation was established in Blanca, which brings together around two thousand of the author's works in a museum itinerary. In 2012 he was present at the Roman Theater Museum in Cartagena and then at the Imperial Fora Museum in Rome with the solo show "IX Mediterranei". The same exhibition was set up in January 2013 in Treviso at the Spazi Bomben, headquarters of the Benetton Studies and Research Foundation. Among his works, exhibited in private collections and museums around the world, we remember a large canvas included in the exhibition itinerary of the Vatican Museums and the self-portrait exhibited in the Vasari corridor of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
