QUIRÓS, Fernando

Fernando Quirós (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1960) is a prominent hyperrealist painter whose artistic career has established itself as a benchmark for contemporary still life painting in the Hispanic world. Born to a painter father, he began his training under the guidance of masters such as Kenneth Kemble, later studying between 1971 and 1974 under painter Irma Beltrame and furthering his education at the Escuela Estímulo de Bellas Artes with Pedro Malenchini. In 1977, he moved to San Diego, California, where he enriched his technique influenced by the 1970s American Photorealist and Hyperrealist movement and the instruction of Jonathan Parce. After presenting his first solo exhibition in 1981 at the Biblioteca de San Isidro in Buenos Aires, he settled in Spain in 1985, maintaining an uninterrupted exhibition career ever since, with solo shows across Spain, Italy, France, Andorra, Argentina, and Paraguay. His work stands out for its masterful handling of light, evocative atmospheres, and restrained geometric composition, in which everyday objects—fruit, rolled paper, smooth blocks, and wooden surfaces—take on an almost metaphysical dimension through an oil technique of academic virtuosity, fine glazes, and imperceptible brushwork. Central to his iconography is a powerful and obsessive attraction to bread, an element he renders through the sublime language of hyperrealism not merely as humanity's traditional sustenance, but as a symbolic medium to satisfy physical, sexual, and spiritual hunger. His trajectory includes solo and retrospective exhibitions at institutional venues such as the Museu de Puigcerdà, the Palacio de la Merced in Córdoba, the Fundación Mapfre Guanarteme, the Centro Cultural La Despernada in Madrid, and the Casa Museo Manuel Mujica Láinez in Argentina, as well as participation in major international art fairs including Estampa in Madrid, Valencia Art, and the Feria Puro Arte in Vigo, forming part of distinguished private and institutional collections throughout Europe and the Americas.