Francisco Sebastián Nicolau

FRANCISCO SEBASTIÁN NICOLAU (Valencia, 1956).
Untitled.
Mixed media collage, pastel and graphite on cardboard.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 28 x 20 cm; 52 x 39 cm (frame).
His paintings, drawings and sculptures can be framed in the territory of realist figuration, without fitting into it in a specific way, as their games of connivance with other languages separate them from the most limited tendencies. From a naturalistic vision of the landscape in the 80's to his evolution towards the current formal synthesis, he has been fixing his interest in the relationship between the atmospheric landscape and the architectural, urban and industrial element, to approach from them also the space of sculpture and from this, return to painting with an organizational vision of the work, in which he establishes analogies between reality-fiction, as in his drawings of constructivist cardboard figures, with games between the tangible and the represented, or between reality-abstraction in large oil paintings and drawings of folded rubber that seem to support themselves with the power of a physical fact and on which he currently acts with geometric drawings made with cords and threads that create fictitious shadows on them, in a language between abstraction-figuration-constructivism. He has exhibited his work in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Mallorca, Milan (Italy), Geneva (Switzerland), Osaka (Japan), several editions of ARCO, etc., and is currently in numerous private collections around the world and in widely recognized institutions such as the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia, the Contemporary Art Center Caja Burgos in Burgos, the Bank of Valencia Collection, the MAPFRE Foundation in Madrid, the Contemporary Art Collection of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the Fischer Collection, etc. He is represented by important galleries such as Alejandro Sales Gallery in Barcelona, Juan Gris Gallery in Madrid, Leonarte Gallery in Valencia.
An intense lyricism runs through this still life with ensaimada, perhaps because of the dry stalks or the ripeness of the apple, an elegant way of speaking of the cadence of time. Glazes, play of light, balanced harmonies and compositional sobriety are combined in this scene.