Xondo is an author of fine arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, arquitecture, music, poetry and cinema).







     From the Atlantic to the Pacific, galleries, libraries and the main museums get books and works from Xondo.




Biographical summary taken from the book Xondo and his Desnaturalismo.


      Xondo, creator of the style Desnaturalismo, was born in Xondo (A Coruña, Spain). At the age of 10, he takes part in a drawing competition organised by a savings bank in Vigo, and, when he is 17 years old, he settles in Barcelona. This city’s artistic scene, combined with short stays in French towns, Madrid and Figueras, constitutes his vocation for painting.

     After a long artistic expierence, he arranges a successful exhibition of his work in Girona, which he remembers as the first serious exhibition of his career. All the city’s media pay great attention to it, reporting diverse reviews, which we may sum up in:

     Marta Déu and J.V.G.: “His work shows his great creative ability in very different and demanding styles. It proves to us the grounding of an academic education with a serious and conscious depth of one who knows that art is work above all”.

     Likewise, they refer to his superb talent as a drafstman , and they point out “that in the exhibited works there is revealed an intention of leaving the representational art in order to turn into a subjective painting, on the borderline between idealism and imagination, with the aim of creating new visual forms in which the strength of colour pervades above all”; and they finish ascertaining that he is a perfect connoisseur of the artistic world’s private matters, with large enough horizons to our perspectives about painting.

     Some years later, Carmen Simón wrote: “We find the human essence of freedom, without measures and without coercions, in all his works, despite we are seized in reality itself. In their weakness, human beings make a patron of their own creation of Xondo. With authentic bank notes –without precedents, by the way, in the history of painting-, he symbolizes the material world linked, by means of an invisible umbilical cord, to the spiritual word, recreated through maternity or christianity”.

     And Corral Díaz: “Xondo’s work is understood as a vision of human being’s freedom. Each observer wil see a moment of his own life in the different hidden realities, fruit of the artist’s experience and imagination. Interpretation and assessment can only be made after contemplating the whole of the work, without hurry and gentleness”.

     These last words also portray the present Xondo, who still states that not even the most beautiful ideas do deserve his respect if they rule the individuals at all, and that his work is the manifest of his own being.

     He summarizes his first period in a work entitled “The third age”, with an excellent drawing. This work was later auctioned by the auction room Durán of Madrid, when its author is not 30 years  old yet. This event, added to other works which the same auction room Durán, the auction room Berkowitsch, etc. would catalogue later is remembered by Xondo as a “hardly anything!” when he sees his name printed next to those of Rivera, Picasso, Dalí, Goya…

     He alternates exhibitions in Barcelona and province with short stays in Madrid, taking the opportunity to carry out a better study of the Baroque and the Impressionist’s techniques.

     It is in 1984 when, at Ourense’s Liceo, he carries out the first of a long series of exhibitions in the Galician provinces. This time, he exhibits a package of mixed techniques –with authentic bank notes used as a part of a composition for the first time. In these works he symbolizes the material worries fused with the spiritual ones.

     Alvarado wrote “…where a drawing based on symbolism and abstraction reminds of the first abstract painting masters”.

     This output caused a series of controversies and incidents, whose account weare going to keep for a larger biography.

     In the same year he settles in Madrid in order to know even the last secret of Velazquez’s techniques. Financial problems (occasionally, he resorts to portraying in order to make his living) impose upon him the painting of some portraits again –this time, for famous artists-, as well as the study of the “maragato” people in order to paint it later on big canvases, but with a free style. This assignment is ordered by Evaristo García, whose administrative seat would be opened by theKIng and Queen of Spain, who, for the last months, have already owned a painting of our already well-known artist, well-known, that’s true, but only in some circles in which it suits him. Xondo defines fame as “a plague that, inevitably, ends up catching all those that sniff its territory”.

     During some time, a great number of ambassadors and seniors absorbs part of his work, bringing about for him its distribution in many countries, at the same time as they afford him exhibition platforms in many capitals throughout the world.

     In 1986, he sees an emergence of rigid forms in his drawing, and which reflect the nightmare which the urban dynamism causes to him. Soon, he remedies this evil moving to A Coruña in order to build, using his own hands, and without any experience, the house he lives in today, placed in a mount ain of Malpica.

     Between 1986 and 1996 he creates a bursting production, surrealist, full of symbolisms and romanticism, with a delightful stain. These are some titles of this stage: “Elements”, “Checkers”, “Shipwreck”, “Tempest on the Costa da Morte”, “Gulls”, “Noah’s Ark”, “Rape”, “Adan and his Eves”, “Fruits from here to eternity”, “Creation of Eve” and a long etc., whose analysis would take up several volumes.. This work was publicly exhibited in severl Galician cities and in London, as well as in private exhibitons in Spanish and European countries, including the United Kingdom.

     For some years, following a unique evolutionary process, he makes up a purely xondist work, with an impulsive and vital innovative style, which will make his works a paradigm of the new art. Taking its characters into account, we may well label it as “Denaturalism”, since its protagonists reflect the metamorphosis or, in some cases, the ectinction living beings are heading for, due to the action of the main predator, which is man. By observing it, we are alone with a new visual world, created by him, where there are no a priori models, nor ideal times to imitate. The artist goes too far in his work, hence his greatness and his genius quality.

     It is admirable the strength he uses to create his linked and yuxtaposed curves, without any previous drawing, and weaving some kind of cybernetic beings, both metallic and human at the same time, as if he wanted to show us a portrait of the man of the future, using a chromatic quality without any concession to the mere beauatiful, but who reveals his talents as a colorist, with a free and precise stain, and of a drafstman with a perfect judgement.  He found his brilliant creations in his own self, by means of the introspection of his soul, which, by way of a mirror, reflects for him part of the universal soul of all men and the behaviours which generate the passions which are related in it. This is a work characteristic of a tremendously inventive artist, modern and timeless, passionate and temperamental, intimist, genius different, with an overpowering personality, artist of reference in order to initiate the plastic discourse towards modernity without any more break up.

     He personally showed his new work, and with impressive results, in North America: Wahington, New York, Chicago, Los Ángeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Oakland, New Jersey and Dallas. Later, he travelled to Venezuela and Colombia with it. In Europe, he showed it in the countries where his previous work was already known: Spain, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal...

     He moves throughout the work promoting himself thanks to private acquisitions, mainly by Galician businessmen. The last public exhibiton in Galicia took place at the Monastery of San Estevo of Ribas do Sil.

     Regarding bibliographical matters, his work is shown in many artistic and encyclopaedic publications as the “Great Galician Encyclopaedia”, some well-known auction houses...

     Within the literary field, he wrote an essay in a humorous tone, and poetry –some poems are published on art books.