CRUCETA IÑAKI Olalde, born in Bilbao on 20 Febredo of 1945-1992.
"Almost entirely self-taught" comments L. A. ART, for their first exhibition together with Merino de la Cruz in 1965. In 1966 participated in the exhibition of the Second Grand Prix in San Sebastian Basque painting.
He makes his first solo exhibition in the SALA AFFA at Ferrol in 1968, and from this happen countless exhibitions of painting and sculpture.

First prize for other techniques of painting contest outdoor Galdácano 1971. Organized by the Art Association Biscayne.

First Prize XXI by other techniques Painting Competition Outdoor Baqui, organized by the Art Association Biscayne

First prize for the XXV technical oil-air Painting Contest GUERNICA free in 1972.

First prize in competition with other techniques of painting outdoors Marquina 1972.

Arthog Hall in Bilbao 1969-70
1971 - Exhibition Hall Information and Tourism of Santander.
1972 - SCR Arrate-Eibar (Guipuzcoa)
1972 - ISAL Art (Bilbao)
1973, 1975, 1977 - THE FISH (San Sebastian)
1973 - VIGO CAM.
1973 - WINDSOR (Bilbao)
1974 - TANGO (Bilbao)
1975 - New Exhibit Hall Municipal Savings Bank of Vigo.
1976, 1977 - ART Salal (Bilbao)
1976, 1977 - Tártalo ART (Vitoria)
1978 - EIPIA, Hondarribia (Guipúzcoa)
1978 - Gallery of the PAZ RAMOS (Mexico)
1978 - Sala AUSART, Vic (Barcelona)
1978 - BAY-SALA Gallery (Bilbao)
1978 - ECHEVA (Bilbao)
1979 - Tártalo ART (Vitoria)
1979 - Loarte (Bilbao)
1979 - STUDIO 75, Algorta (Vizcaya)
1979 - ALTEX (Madrid)
1979 - Frontera (Madrid)
1980, 1984 - Echeberría 2 (San Sebastian)
1981 - ERAKUS-TOKI, Getaria (Guipúzcoa)
1981 - CALEDONIA (Bilbao)
1982 - CITY SAVINGS BANK OF SAN SEBASTIAN
1985 - THE LOCAL (San Sebastian)
1986 - Caja Rioja (Logroño)
1987 - BOX Guipúzcoa (San Sebastián)
1988 - Caja Laboral Popular, traveling exhibition:
Mondragón.
Irun.
Ermua.
Getxo.
Tafalla.
Escoriaza.
1989 - CAIXA OURENSE
1989-90 - Gallery TORRES (Bilbao)
1990 - Caja Municipal de Pamplona.
1991 - Gallery TORRES (Bilbao)

In love typical Basque character above all "the arrantzales."
Quote of the painter: "My character is a typical Basque individuals disproportionately monumental" and then created his characters with disproportionately large denoting strength and charisma.

- Impressionism painting for me is more noble, more difficult and we'll say it once, almost pretty.

"CRITICAL"

Cruceta walks slowly, but surely, in the first stage of his life. He knows he still has a long way to go but not worried. He lives today and it takes off.
JOSEPH MARFEROLA.

Cruceta is a living painter, expressive, with a rich sense of color, and a spontaneous execution and juicy.

La Gaceta del Norte 1969.

Draw with ease and precision, are framed the issues vigorously with sturdy fishing anatomy have been treated by Cruceta. Knowing the Cantabrian color, exudes in his paintings, predominantly green light, well played with ocher. With courage and mastery. Cruceta has left the pigments in its precise extent, accusing their fillings in a good know-how. Ledge of the reef with crystal csntábrica observation and exquisite sensitivity, tie the inexhaustible well-treated subjects are very grateful in this exhibition that presents.

MEDRANO JC 1971.

There are a breath of youth in the paintings of Cruceta, perhaps because of his loyalty to greyish blue, to pink mist or by simple adherence to his village taverns Vizcane delights in early morning, working ridden tragedies, dramas or sorry for less Family .....

PEREZBELLAS-LA VOZ DE GALICIA 1973.

Drawing strong, faded colors and a real show ended.
ACTING FISH GALLERY Exhibition in 1973

Artist Vizcaya annotator of plastics and anecdotal subjects offered by the country. Peoples, Mar. And it does so very personal but with a full technical expressionist resonances in the composition and give the color. But it is precisely the subjective version of the motives inspiring and perfectly coordinated pictorial realization, which gives the work of Cruceta singulkaridad worth it apart from other performers of similar issues.

JOSEPH critical assessment BASQUE DAILY BERNEZO in San Sebastian 1973.

In the painting of two aspects combine Cruceta main, the coldness of the analysis and the depth of feeling, because even though this has deeply Bilbao painter present every technical problem in the pictorial work Sege, every picture, every time, "responds to a definite mood, as I said," in this way - continued - can be a time when you care to study only the problem of light, while other, in which a number of reasons you see all dark "

ART painting between lécnica and feeling. 1973.

Painting nice, fresh touch, well cared for values on some issues very treaties and by the Basque painting before now ............ guess is a painter of obvious possibilities.

J. B. ART 1973.

If there really is a Basque painting inthe between "classic" Basque painting must be sought in contemporary art Cruceta Iñaki the significance of this symbiosis. Because Iñaki Cruceta collects, transforms and relaunched with a new approach contributed by teachers vascoos the recent past.

JM ALVAREZ-Matching VOICE OF SPAIN-1975.

Cruceta trace with a sure hand almost architectural shapes, giving the fishermen and sailors a monumentality that is asking more than the color and sculptural matter their compositions masterfully embedded, all the possibilities that he mural gives the epic development constructs. Because this is the "tone" that transcends the paint with a certain social accent, although her diction color - almost reduced to the range of blues, greens and grays - sodina put to creative purpose.

Berry JOSE - EL DIARIO BASQUE - 1975

Cruceta's painting is full of new spirit taming the image and using it to achieve capture on canvas or paper pictorial inspiration. Cruceta Iñaki plays with the distortion of the image, the shapes, transforms, enlarged limbs and Ferzan the corppulencia of the figures, the mode and interpretation of the Expressionists, obtaining results full of vigor. At the same time, with the more austere palette in line with the traditional Basque painting involves the issue masterfully maternidaddes arrantzales or all Oeller sustained by a firm stroke and stroke resolved.

ALVAREZ JM Empar-LA VOZ DE GALICIA-1977.

Cruceta's painting is figurative, a resounding clear as figurative and bright, free clothes to spoil the color of the entire unit to treat in each of the subjects exhibited .............. Diluted in the right perspective the landscape, petite, wrap it in a tammósfera as subtle as delicate, without being eccentric baroque, presents a series of more places that, even so common and familiar, are still pleasantly surprised .
POO SAN ROMAN

Drawing with ease and precision, are strongly framed the issues of fishermen, with stout anatomy have been treated by Cruceta.

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Break plans and everything is full of light (Torres)

A quick and decisive in painting Cruceta, who spent figurative domain of the people of the villages, a Realist Art, the signs of abstraction ...

FERTILIZER SATURATE 1990.

Worked, experienced and lived by and for the Arts, we deserve that his work is in oblivion.

He died in Bilbao in June 1992: Painter, sculptor and poet.