He modernist painter Patxi Buldain (Huarte, 1927) died this Sunday at the age of 97, as EITB Media has learned. Buldain was a multidisciplinary modernist artist who worked in both painting, graphic work and sculpture, held more than 100 exhibitions throughout his career, and enjoyed success and recognition, especially in France.
According to Eusko Ikaskuntza, Buldain began painting at the age of 18, and later went to France, where he remained for 20 years working as an artist thanks to a pension from the French Government. In Paris he continued his training, and there he met the expressionist and surrealist avant-garde that would inspire him so much. In 1961 she obtained the honorary diploma from the Paris International Salon. He began to exhibit in France, and his pieces reached Mali.
At the end of the Franco regime, the painter returned to Navarra and He settled permanently in his Huarte, his hometown.. In 2005, the Huarte-Buldain Foundation was inaugurated, with the aim of making his work known, but it ended up closing in 2012. Buldain continued working until his death, as a teacher and as an artist, experimenting with different materials and disciplines.
Source: Eitb
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