Eusebio Sempere and Abel Martín. Silkscreen Printing: Art and Much Craft

Eusebio Sempere (Onil, Alicante, 1923-1985) and his partner Abel Martín (Mosqueruela, Teruel, 1931-Madrid, 1993) learned the silkscreen printing technique in Paris, in the workshop of Cuban artist Wifredo Arcay. Upon their return in 1960, now in Madrid, both set up a workshop to print the first artistic silkscreens in Spain. A complex book by Lucio Muñoz with textured sand attracted, due to its perfection, commissions from other artists. From the mid-60s onwards, it was Abel who took charge of the entire technical process and became an expert silkscreen printer, a key figure in the reproduction and dissemination of contemporary art. 
 

The deep conviction that graphic work deserved the status of an original work, which brought contemporary art within reach of a large majority of the public, turning it into a mass phenomenon, and the respect and enthusiasm that both professionals profess for graphic work, has an impact on their own artistic production. Sempere creates two hundred silkscreens, all printed by Abel Martín, grouped in series, published in portfolios or individually, and some of them accompanied by literary texts, a display of technique and craftsmanship.