Manuel Barbadillo

Year of birth, place

1929
Spain

Year of death, place

2003
Spain

Role at the ZKM

  • Artist of the Collection

Biography

Manuel Barbadillo studied law at the University of Granada (grad. 1953). He studied arts with the sculptor Emilio García Ortiz (1944–1947) and at a school of arts and crafts (1951–1953). 1959–1962 stay in New York. 1968–1973 participated in the seminars "Generación automática de formas plásticas” at the computer center of the University of Madrid.
Exhib.: 1969, »Formas computables«, computer center of the University of Madrid. 1970, »Generación automática de formas plásticas«, computer center of the University of Madrid.
Lit.: M. B., "Materia y vida," in: Ernesto García Camarero (ed.), »Ordenadores en el arte. Generación automática de formas plásticas«, Madrid, 1969, pp. 17–23. M. B., "El ordenador. Experiencias de un pintor con una herramienta nueva,” in: García Camarero 1969, pp. 13–16.

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