20th - 21st Century Spanish

The coherent and well-defined practice of this founding member of the started with a brief figurative period that ended around 1953 when he embraced abstraction, after a brief experience with . He had his first solo show in 1954 at Galería Buchholz in Madrid. Since then, he has exhibited his work regularly in shows in many cities, including Rome, Tokyo, New York, Helsinki and Paris, among others.

In 1956 he moved to Paris to study the happening movements of the time. There, he was influenced by automatism and matter painting and began to work with oil paste and sand in black, ochre and white tones.

In the 1960s he introduced red as a counterpoint to the formal and material simplification, generally applied in circular motifs. From the 1970s onwards he shifted from a bold use of colour to a more muted phase with white paintings and others with geometric bands of previously rejected elements.

Throughout his career, Feito has received many distinctions, including his appointment in 1985 as Officier des Arts et des Lettres of France, the Fine Arts Gold Medal, his appointment in 1998 as a member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the 2000 Prize from the Spanish Association of Art Critics.