Ignacio Gómez de Liaño

Photo: José del Río Mons

He has been a university teacher since 1969, at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, in the Faculty of Political Sciences and in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid, and also at the Universities of Osaka (Japan) and Beijing (China). He coordinated the seminar on Automatic Generation of Plastic Forms at the Computing Centre of the University of Madrid in the course of 1970, where he carried out his research into “Painting and perceptronics”, the origin of “pixelisation”. He has lectured in numerous countries, has published articles in 
different newspapers and magazines in Spain and abroad (El Mundo, El País, ABC, Revista de Occidente, Archipiélago, etc.), has appeared in various anthologies of Spanish literature and has writen more than thirty books. He has received several awards for different work he has carried out, and a number of his books have been translated into  several languages and have had several editions. From 1993 to 1999, he edited the literary magazine Inventario. 

In 2016 the Museum of Contemporary Art of Ibiza held an exhibition of the experimental poetry of Ignacio Gómez de Liaño with the title 1972. Los Juegos del Espinario. In 2018 in the French city of Orleans, the FRAC Center-Val de Loire carried out another exhibition of the same kind. In 2019 and 2020 the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid has dedicated several of its rooms to an exhibition entitled Ignacio Gómez de Liaño. Abandonar la escritura (Abandon Writing).