Elias ( d' après Daniel Buren 96/99 ) is the name of the installation that Miguel Angel Campano , National Prize of Plastic Arts 1996 , created during three years in the workshops of the Maior Gallery in Pollença. A monumental work consisting of thousands of canvases with asymmetrical shapes and the point as a common element of all of them.
The complete installation consists of 3,003 pieces, could be seen in the Palacio Velázquez of Madrid in the late nineties. Now the Maior Gallery gives a new interpretation to the part of the work it preserves and displays it at its headquarters in Palma.
Miguel Angel Campano (Madrid, 1948) is one of the leaders of the so-called renewal of Spanish painting, which took place in the eighties and which also involved José Manuel Broto, José María Sicilia and Miquel Barceló and Ferran Garcia Sevilla . His work is marked out by two major trends in painting, American Abstract Expressionism and European informality.
