The Gustavo de Maeztu Museum opens the exhibition ‘Miguel Galano. Days without sun’

Asturian painter Miguel Galano exhibits at the Gustavo de Maeztu Museum until 22 February 2026

On 17 October 2025, the Gustavo de Maeztu Museum will open an exhibition dedicated to Miguel Galano (Tapia de Casariego, 1956), one of the most unique and poetic Spanish painters of recent decades.

The exhibition will remain open until 22 February 2026 and will offer the public a journey through the essence of his painting, marked by silence, memory and restrained light.

Known for his ability to transform landscapes, architecture and everyday objects into timeless images, Galano places himself in an intimate space of contemplation, where emotion and sobriety dialogue with pictorial tradition. His paintings, with their restrained and refined atmosphere, invite the viewer to look calmly, to discover the essential in the seemingly minimal.
The exhibition brings together thirty works that allow us to delve into his particular way of looking at the world.

The exhibition discourse highlights Galano’s relationship with Spanish tradition and his affinity with universal sensibilities, where pictorial material becomes a vehicle for introspection and visual poetry.
The exhibition reinforces the Gustavo de Maeztu Museum’s commitment to promoting contemporary artists who, through a personal and coherent language, engage in dialogue with the museum’s values and its vocation to build bridges between tradition and modernity.

Miguel Galano, Tapia de Casariego, Asturias (1956)

Miguel Galano (Tapia de Casariego, Asturias, 1956) is one of the most unique Spanish painters of his generation. His artistic career has been characterised by absolute fidelity to painting as a language and as a way of exploring memory, silence and the poetics of everyday life.
Initially trained in Oviedo, Galano developed a personal style from a very young age, marked by chromatic restraint, refined forms and a sensitivity to veiled, atmospheric light. Throughout his career, he has worked in various genres—landscape, interior, still life, figure—always from an intimate perspective that transforms reality into a subject for contemplation.
His work dialogues with the Spanish pictorial tradition, from Zurbarán’s tenebrism to the modernity of Antonio López, but also with a contemporary sensibility that places him in the orbit of European artists dedicated to exploring frozen time and the essence of the visible.
He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums, galleries and institutions throughout Spain, as well as in international competitions. Some of his work forms part of public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, the Reina Sofía National Art Museum (Madrid), the Museum of Fine Arts of Santander and the Masaveu Collection, as well as prominent private collections.

Considered a cult painter, Galano has developed a discreet but solid career, focused on the coherence of his artistic research. His paintings—often dominated by shades of grey, ochre and earth tones—convey an atmosphere of silence and suspension that invites the viewer to introspection.
In the words of critics, his painting constitutes ‘a poetic diary of reality,’ a way of inhabiting the world through slow and essential contemplation.
The Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and Sundays and public holidays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Admission is free.