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2026 Art season

Antonio Crespo Foix

"Levedades (Lightnesses)"
Le Château

Artistic approach

In 2025, Antonio Crespo Foix was back in his native city with an exhibition titled Levedades (Lightnesses). To mark the occasion, the artist set his hand to writing about his artistic approach.

“Lightness is a vocation common to all my works. Through this title, I want to provide an overall vision of my work and highlight the formal, technical and conceptual constants that have always informed it. Over the years, I have sought to intensify them while preserving a personal, independent narrative as well as trying to change the vision generally associated with sculpture — perceived as being heavy and massive — in favour of a more ethereal and evanescent approach.
Most of the materials I use come from nature, many of them from the plant world: wood, bamboo, poplar pollen, raffia, pitta, pappi, etc. I ‘weave’ them, with the help of wire, meshes and entanglements, which, like spatial writings, suggest volumes that aspire to integrate into nature.
Finally, I’d like the mists and clouds I suggest through my entanglements to be understood metaphorically, in other words, not in a literal sense but as the unfocused spaces of fog that often inhabit and coexist in us, and which also accompany our own lightness…”
 

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Antonio CRESPO FOIX
SPAIN
 

Born in Valdepeñas in the province of Ciudad Real (Spain) in 1953, Antonio Crespo Foix graduated in fine arts, speciality sculpture, from the University of Valencia’s San Carlos Faculty. He developed a unique approach to sculpture very early on, which he practised in parallel with a post as a drawing teacher at the Bernardo de Balbuena secondary school in Valdepeñas, which he held until 2014. Since the late 1990s, his work has been regularly presented in solo and collective exhibitions in Spanish institutions and galleries, including in Madrid, Toledo, Cáceres, Saragossa and Pamplona, as well as at such international fairs as ARCO Madrid. His work has been the subject of numerous critical texts by such authors as Juan Manuel Bonet, Fernando Huici and Marcos Ricardo Barnatán, who highlight the coherence and uniqueness of a body of work devoted to lightness, immateriality and duration.

Promoted by the Michel Soskine Gallery since the early 2000s, his work is currently represented by the Claude Bernard Gallery in Paris.

AWARDS

2007
Caja Castilla-La Mancha Painting and Sculpture Prize (Sculpture category)
 
2000
Second Prize (Sculpture), 27th Bancaixa Painting and Sculpture Prize, Valencia, Spain
 
1999
Second Prize, 60th National Exhibition of Plastic Arts, Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real), Spain

COLLECTIONS

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain
Museo Provincial de Ciudad Real, Spain
Diputación de Ciudad Real, Spain
Ayuntamiento de Doña Mencía, Cordoba, Spain
Museo Municipal de Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, Spain
Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
Diputación de Córdoba, Espagne
Diputación de Cáceres, Espagne

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2025
Levedades, Museo Municipal de Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, Spain
 
2023-2024
Cuerpo y bruma, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
Small is beautiful, group show, Galerie Claude Bernard, France
 
2021–2022
AERIUM, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
 
2019
Obra Reciente, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
 
2018-2019
Antonio Crespo Foix, Museo de Santa Cruz, Tolède, Spain
 
2015
Antonio Crespo Foix, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
Sculpture Garden, group show, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
 
2014
Colectiva, group show. Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
2013
Antonio Crespo Foix – sculptures. Daniel Zeller, drawings. Universos Íntimos, two-person exhibition, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
Colectiva, group show. Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
 
2010
Group show, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
Antonio Crespo Foix & Daniel Zeller. A Dialogue, ARCP. Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
Summer show, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
 
2009
Group show, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
 
2008
Urdimbres / Warps, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
 
2005
Peces y Nubes, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
Valdepeñas, 65 años de arte, Prix d’arts plastiques (1940–2004). Touring exhibition: Tolède, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Albacete, Spain
 
2004
VIe Biennale d’arts plastiques “Ciudad de Albacete”, Museo Municipal, Albacete, Spain
LXV Exposition internationale d’arts plastiques de Valdepeñas, Museo Municipal de Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, Spain
XXXII Concours national d’arts plastiques (sculpture), Caja de Guadalajara. Sala de Arte Caja de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Spain
 
2003
LXIV Exposition internationale d’arts plastiques de
Valdepeñas, Museo Municipal de Valdepeñas, Ciudad Rea, Spain
La materia del aire, solo show. Sala El Brocense, Cáceres, Spain
 
2002
IIIe Biennale d’arts plastiques Ciudad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
Brumario, solo show. Catalogue with texts by Juan Manuel Bonet and José Luis Loarce. Espacio para el Arte, Caja Madrid, Saragosse et Pontevedra, Spain.
Divertimientos, solo show. Galería Teresa Cuadrado, Valladolid, Spain
 
2001
Tejer el Aire, solo show. Museo Municipal de Valdepeñas, Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real, Spain
Tejer el Aire, solo show Catalogue with texts by Juan Manuel Bonet and Emilio García. Museo Provincial de Albacete, Albacete, Spain