Francisco Vidal

FRANCISCO VIDAL (Lisbon, 1978).
"Time Run". 2009
Oil on canvas (diptych).
Signed in the lower left corner. Signed and dated on the back.
Provenance; Private collection
Measurements: 134 x 308 cm; 138 x 312 cm (frame).

Based on a still from the cult film "Pulp Fiction" by Tarantino, Francisco Vidal places the gangsters played by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson on a strident red background, and replaces one of the guns with a banana. An intense yellow stain spreads out, suggesting an explosion. It is a painting formed by two canvases, which results in an expanded scene impregnated with freshness and carefree.

The painter Francisco Vidal lives between Luanda (Angola) and Lisbon (Porturgal). Graduated in Plastic Arts at Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, he took an advanced course in Visual Arts at Escola de Artes Visuais Maumaus, in Lisbon. She lived for some time in the United States, obtaining a Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University, New York. She began exhibiting regularly in 2005. In 2014 he presented the painting project "Utopia Luanda Machine" at 56th Venice Biennale, in the Angolan Pavilion, curated by António Ole, and at Expo Milano, curated by Suzana Sousa. In 2016, the project "ESCOLA DE PAPEL" was presented in Luanda and, in 2017, in São Tomé. and Príncipe. Francisco Vidal's practice highlights ideas around work and international mobility. Recognized for his large pictorial installations, he draws powerful calligraphic lines on silkscreen canvases, in vivid colors and varied chromatic combinations. He also practices a figuration rooted in the language of comics. He has works in national collections, such as those of the EDP Foundation, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Cachola Foundation, and international collections.