20^th Century Spanish

Berta Cáccamo grew up in a very creative family, something which exerted a great influence on her vocation as an artist. She is the daughter of the writer Xosé María Álvarez Blázquez and sister of the poet Xosé María and the author Alfonso Álvarez Cáccamo.

She graduated with a degree from the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona in 1986. That same year she began to exhibit her work and joined the Atlántica group, which advocated a renewal of the traditional movements conditioning the visual arts in Galicia.

Influenced by Tàpies and Miró, Cáccamo’s painting is abstract and conceptual, constructed with large areas of ochre and black colours. Her geometrically organised painting is shrouded in silence and endowed with a rare mystery that confers it a unique fascination. Her works are to be found in the collections of the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela and the Museo Provincial in Pontevedra, as well as in several private collections.