Beneyto & Antonio Beneyto 
A barbarian in Barcelona 

Surrealism – Postismo is a postwar, pictorial-literary movement created by Eduardo Chicharro (1905-1964) and Carlos Edmundo de Ory (1923-2010) in Madrid in 1945; presented as a synthesis of the isms, spontaneity, play and enigma as a celebration of eurythmy (harmony).

Circa l’autore

‘A painter, sculptor and writer. He began his artistic career in the mid-sixties in Palma de Mallorca, around Papeles de Son Armadams, where he met Robert Graves, Camilo Jose Cela, AF Molina and Christopher Serra. Then he moved to Barcelona where he led the Corner collection, which released writers like Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Joan Brossa, Max Aub, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Ramon Gomez de la Serna and Carlos Edmundo de Ory. parallel was doing own work and working in publishing , especially in the Picazo, Lumen, Grijalbo and Bruguera publishers. Among his books are the Boys Wild, Letters apocryphal, time Chimera, the Other Travel and Còdols in New York. Writer committed their time and their environment, is the author of and historical works as censorship and politics in the Spanish writers (1975), which was republished several times. it is also the introducer Pizarnik in Spain, whose work Names and Figures (1969) edited. Defender of postista aesthetics, surrealism and a certain realism, Beneyto has proclaimed to the four winds his poetic and aesthetic code, which is in a trap of generally accepted values. A broad view of his pictorial and sculptural trajectory is in the book that bears precisely the title Beneyto, creator postista (Collection Art-Land, March Editor, Barcelona, ??2002).