Cesar Delgado Benitez Biography
Cesar Benitez Delgado was born in Madrid in 1961. He studied painting in the workshop of José Vento and, in 1992, with Marta at the Cárdenas Current Art Course of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In 1989 he obtained the artist scholarship at the La Romana Residence, Dominican Republic, and in 1992 the painting scholarship of the municipality of Mojácar, Almería. In 1990 he received the Acquisition Prize at the VII Salón de Artes Plásticas de Alcobendas, Madrid, and in 1994 the Acquisition Prize at the Ciudad de Alcorcón National Painting Competition. His work, heir to the Spanish informal tradition, and close to the postulates of Luis Gordillo, stands out for the redundant use of two compositional keys: repetition and superposition. By isolating the gesture and defining the articulation of the pictorial planes, Benítez achieves a cold appearance close to lithographic processes, from the density in the application of the pigment, and from the organic suggestion of the forms. His solo exhibitions at the MW Gallery, Madrid (1994), and at the Valle Quintana Gallery, Madrid (1998) stand out.
