Curriculum

He is an autodidact and started drawing and painting with Vázquez Doce, his father. He first exhibited his painting when he was eighteen in A Coruña. In his first stage, he painted oil and watercolour, exhibiting his works in the fourth Galician cities. In 1974, he carried out an exhibition in Santiago de Compostela (Hostal de los Reyes Católicos). In 1979, he moved to Madrid and exhibited his watercolour paintings at Bercowitsch Gallery. During this stage, he studied scenography with Santiago Doria (Argentinian director and actor) and with Jaime Salón (playwright). He was selected to attend a course on painting nude at San Fernando Faculty of Art at the same time he was preparing an exhibition for Torques Gallery (Santiago de Compostela), where he met Laxeiro, who bought one of his exhibited works. In 1981, he established himself in Ferrol, where he prepared the exhibition for El Brocense (Cáceres). In 1982, he travelled to Venezuela and was invited to exhibit his works at the gallery of the Spanish Embassy. That same year, he prepared the exhibitions for Arboreda Gallery (Ferrol) and Rúa Nova Gallery (Lugo). In 1983, Citania Gallery (Santiago de Compostela) published ‘Cuatro Acuarelas’, a folder containing his original paintings and texts by Ramón Otero Pedrayo and Salvador Lorenzana as well as poems by Pero Meogo, Rosalía de Castro, Eduardo Blanco Amor, Álvaro Cunqueiro and Manuel Curros Enríquez. In 1984, Ítaca Theatre Company (Santiago de Compostela) asked him for the scenography of ‘Eclipse Total’ by Christopher Hampton. That same year (2-12 August), the Consellería de Cultura - Xunta de Galicia invited him to represent Galicia at the XIV Interceltique Festival in Lorient (France), together with Lomarti, Xulio Maside, Morquecho and Ignacio Basallo.