The early works of Facundo Fierro preserved by the Island Museum of La Palma

In December 2019, the Conservation and Restoration Center of the Cabildo de La Palma documented a comprehensive intervention on several of Facundo Fierro’s early works belonging to the Island Museum of La Palma. As the center itself explains, the treatment consisted of removing frames and secondary supports that were damaging and acidifying the pieces.

This information holds documentary value that goes beyond the restoration itself: it confirms that a public museum institution—the Island Museum of La Palma—preserves Fierro’s early work and that this work has received professional conservation treatment, exactly the type of evidence that allows for a distinction between the career narrative told by the artist himself and his verifiable presence in institutional collections.

These early works, dating from before or during the beginning of his exclusive dedication to painting in 1976, are also one of the few documented avenues for future research into Fierro’s formative period prior to his consolidation as a professional artist.

Source: Conservation and Restoration Center, Cabildo de La Palma (December 2019). More in the artist's biography.