Jaime Zapata

Jaime Zapata studied at the School of Plastic Arts of the Universidad Central de Quito. In 1984 he moved to Paris, where he has lived since then, to work at the Centro Cultural de Galerie de Nesle. In 1998 created Jaime Zapata Space Workshop in Quito.

His work developed in the field of figurative painting. He has experimented with different application techniques of representation to create scenes of magical worlds, visually consistent, but disturbingly fantastic atmospheres.

Joan Miró

(Barcelona, 1893, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1983)

Painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist Spanish. He studied business and worked for two years as a clerk in a drugstore, until an illness forced him to retire for a long period in a family house in the small town of Mont-Roig del Camp.

Back in Barcelona, he joined the Academy of Art led by Francisco Galí, where he met the latest artistic trends in Europe. Until 1919, his painting was dominated by a formal expressionism Fauve and Cubist influences, focusing on landscapes, portraits and nudes.