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Fuentes Olmo, born in Andújar in 1940, studied Fine Arts in Seville and Madrid, specialising in Post-Conciliar Sacred Art and monumental murals in reinforced concrete. He is considered to be the introducer, from 1968 onwards, of abstract sculpture in Andalusia.
 
With regard to his academic activity, he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada in 1989, and in 1998 he was appointed director of the "Sculptural Techniques Research" group of the Department of Innovation, Science and Enterprise of the Andalusian Regional Government.
 
Among his most important prizes and awards, the following stand out: the "Carmen del Río" and "Madrigal" Sculpture Prize in Madrid, the appointment as Numerary Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville, the Insignia de Alfonso X el Sabio of the Ministry of Education and Science, the appointment as Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Nuestra Señora de las Angustias in Granada, the Gold Medal of Andalusia, the Gold Medal for Merit in Sculpture from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Granada, the appointment as corresponding foreign academic at the Portuguese Academy of Letters and Arts in Estoril and the Gold Medal of the City of Andújar.