Talismán

Graduated in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. Scholarship from the Landscape Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid. Goyo Domínguez was born into a simple family. His father had a natural talent for drawing and made portraits of his siblings during a long period of convalescence due to a serious illness. No doubt he inherited from him this love for drawing and since he was a child he used pieces of charcoal to create small "murals" on the whitewashed walls of the courtyard under the watchful eye of his mother. At the age of ten he entered the seminary of the Marist Brothers to begin his high school studies. There he found an environment that stimulated his love for the arts, since theatrical, musical, literary or pictorial activities were frequently organized. He had the opportunity to paint large murals of religious content that reached great diffusion in Spain and Latin America. In 1982 he began his Fine Arts degree at the Complutense University, being a student of teachers such as Agustín Úbeda, Antonio Guijarro, or José Carralero, who granted him an end-of-career landscape scholarship. He fondly remembers the advice and dedication of the drawing professor Álvaro Paricio, who offered him the possibility of staying at the university as an associate professor. And, of course, he remembers with great affection his fellow students from whom he learned so much. At the university he met the painter Raquel Pérez Fariñas, mother of his daughter María and companion of life and common artistic illusions in those early years. In 1990 the art dealer Sam Benady opened a gallery next to the Prado Museum and proposed Domínguez to work exclusively with him, doing a great job of promoting my work in prestigious galleries around the world until 2008. Domínguez wants to highlight, within the work of these last years, his participation in the Cosenza Project. In this beautiful Calabrian city he painted for two months five murals of two by three meters each, representing historical scenes related to the Spanish influence in that area of Italy. It has been a wonderful human and artistic experience, since it has allowed him to share his passion for art with masters such as Jhon Pickind, Richard Whimcop, Silvia Pecha and Alexander Barbera Ivanov. This artistic experience has introduced him to the prodigious richness of working as a team on a creative project, overcoming personal interests and obsessions to reach a common goal. It has been something new for him, accustomed to always painting in the solitude of a studio, and for which he feels deeply grateful.