A Spanish sculptor, painter and printmaker, Gabino began training at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia, while also working at the studio of his father, the sculptor Alfonso Gabino. In the late 1940s he settled in Madrid, furthering his training through scholarships that took him to travel around Europe (Rome, Milan, Paris and Hamburg) and the USA (New York) from 1948 to 1959, giving him an opportunity to acquaint himself with the latest trends and to meet artists of the stature of Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Max Ernst (1891-1976), Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964), Louis Kahn (1901-1974) and the Italian neo-humanist sculptors Carlo Carrà (1881-1966), Giacomo Manzù (1908-1991) and Marino Marini (1901-1980).

His earliest sculptures were figurative, mainly female nudes in bronze. In the 1960s he performed a shift towards Constructivism, reaching his maturity by creating a personal style based on a sort of collage of superimposed metal plates as if cuirasses. The most common materials in his works were iron, steel, aluminium and brass, often combined to play with textures and finishes.A highly versatile artist, Gabino also excelled in engraving, an activity he started in the late 1950s at the studios of Antonio Lorenzo (1922-2009) and Dimitri Papagueorguiu (1928-2016). His engraving works contain embossments and a layering of colour that connects with his unmistakable vernacular.Together with Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002), Andreu Alfaro (1929-2012) and Martín Chirino (1925-2019), Amadeo Gabino is one of the most noteworthy Spanish contemporary sculptors. His works are to be found in the most important Spanish museums, including the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao or the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca.

Gabino represented Spain at the Alexandria Biennale (1954), the Venice Biennale (1956 and 1966), and the World’s Fair in New York (1964), and he has won countless awards, including the Gran Prix at the Havana Ibero-American Biennial (1953), Valencia National Industrial Design Prize (1980), the Schwäbisch Hall International Sculpture Prize (1987) and the Alfons Roig Award in Valencia (1998). Among the many exhibitions of his work held in Spain and abroad we would single out the retrospective organised in 2000 by the IVAM in Valencia.He died just one day before the ceremony for his induction into the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Bulgaria:

National Museum, Sofia

Chile:

International Museum of the Resistance >>Salvador Allende<<

Cuba:

Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana

Finland:

Alvar Aalto Museo, Jyvaskyla

Porin Taidemuseo, Pori

France:

City of Oloron Sainte-Marie

Germany:

>>Gesipa<«<, Frankfurt

Mönchehaus, Museum of Modern Art, Goslar

Bank for Public Economy, Hamburg

>>>Kravag« motor vehicle insurance, Hamburg

Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen

City of Schwäbisch Hall

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Municipal art gallery, Mannheim

Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel

Japan:

Sumitomo Corporation, Yokohama

Mexico:

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Chapultepec

Switzerland:

Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva

Spain:

Caja de Ahorros de Alicante and Murcia

Museum of the Siglo XX, Alicante

Feria Nacional de Muestras, Bilbao

Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao

Caja de Ahorros Municipal, Burgos

Central Electrica, Castrello

Universidad Laboral, Cordoba

Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol, Cuenca

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Elche

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Ibiza

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Lanzarote

Assicurazione Generali, Madrid

Banco Exterior de Espana, Madrid

Biblioteca National, Madrid

Campo de la Naciones, Madrid

Compañia Telefónica, Madrid

>>La Equitativa«, Madrid

Iberia Lineas Aéreas, Main Office, Madrid

Instituto Nacional de Colonización, Madrid

Instituto Nacional de Industria, Madrid

Museo de Escultura de la Castellana, Madrid

Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid

Museo de Fundacion Juan March, Madrid

>>Olivetti«< Main Office, Madrid

>>R.E.N.F.E.«<, Madrid

>>Ybarra<< Transatlantic Company, Madrid

Association Canaria de Amigos del Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Museo de Escultura en la Calle, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Museo Collection Eduardo Westerdhal, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Museo de Pedraza, Segovia

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville

Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad, Valencia

Colegio de Arquitectos, Valencia

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Villafamés

Museo de Bellas Artes, Vitoria

UNITED STATES:

Amos Cahan Collection, New York

Nelson Rockefeller Collection, New York

New Spanish Tourist Office, New York

Spanish Pavilion at the 1964-65 World's Fair, New York

Aschenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, San Francisco

Florida Federal Tower, St Petersburg

Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas

Museo de Arte Moderno »>Jesus Soto<<, Ciudad Bolivar