Francisco Vidal Gardella (1960) - Cala Figuera (Mallorca)

Signed by the artist on the bottom and titled on the back "Cala Figuera"\n\nConservation status: good\n\nPresented unframed. The work\n\nDimensions: 38 cm high x 46 cm wide.\n\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\n\nBIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST\n\nFrancesc Vidal received, during the years he spent at the Olot School of Fine Arts, the influence of painters such as Xavier Vinyoles, Vilà Moncau, Lluis Juanola, and Josep Guardiola. From them he learned one important thing: the treatment of the landscape, the way to reproduce and define it; from his early trials, he would contribute, as an innovative artist in the field of color, aesthetic in composition and soul in the landscapes he reproduces. The regions of Girona are full of landscapes that invite immortalization through realistic painting. Vidal paints with an exceptionally distinctive personality, with an argument, evidentness, and an indication that the layman’s gaze is different from his own. A gaze that, in the ordinary, does not know how to see all the beauty offered by nature, since a painting reflects the fidelity of a place that, although known, is in reality totally unknown to us. Building on the Olot school teachings, Vidal added a personal visión of color in landscape, an aspect to which he pays special attention in his works.\n\nFrancesc Vidal plays with the different hues of the leaves of trees in their varying tones, depending on the season we are in. He captures the different nuances of the landscape with his chromatic diversity: greens, bluish-greens, pinks and oranges, yellows, yellow-green… All these colors should be found in the different nuances depending on whether we are in spring, summer or autumn. This is the great challenge the painter faces in configuring a landscape that might seem to be of a single color, but is not.\n\nVidal has made the landscape his habitual means of expression, but he also knows how to masterfully express the intense colors of the Mediterranean, the tempered whites of the Islands, the cliffs of Les Guilleries, or the French gorges of the Agly river.\n\nSometimes he lets himself be guided by pure figurative style and reproduces the landscape as a mirror. At other times he leans toward still lifes of flowers and plays with meticulous detail in the stems and leaves, as well as in the contrast between light and shadow.\n\nIn short, one could say that Francesc Vidal is a spokesman for our most intimate and hidden artistic instincts, which he reveals to us through his artistic expressions of landscapes, where cliffs and chasms demonstrate the physical reality of our country.\n\nIn his works, he conveys the spirit of the landscape as if it were an idyllic scene and draws us into that natural landscape, obliging us to stay within it, with the enchantment that entails. Through his work he makes us love and yearn for nature, as if hinting that if nature is lost, freedom—and even our own identity—are lost as well.\n\nThroughout his career, this Catalan painter has held exhibitions in almost all of Spain, France, and Switzerland.\n\nEXHIBITIONS OF THE PAINTER:\n\nCalonge, Girona.\nComarruga, Tarragona.\nSant Joan les Fonts, Besalú, Girona.\nOlot, Girona.\nBanyoles.\nLloret de Mar.\nPals.\nSetcases, Girona.\nSta. Coloma de Farners.\nRoses, Girona.\nPineda de Mar,\nAmer.\nVic, Barcelona.\nCambrils.\nManresa.\nGranollers.\nMataró, Barcelona.\nSant Pol de Mar.\nVilassar de Mar.\nManlleu.\nSabadell, Barcelona.\nArchena, Murcia.\nJaca, Huesca.\nZestoa, Guipúzcoa.\nBilbao.\nPamplona.\nLogroño.\nPuigcerdà.\nBenidorm, Alicante.\nPeñíscola, Castellón.\nValladolid.\nIrún.\nPontevedra.\nA Coruña.\nCórdoba.\nBarcelona.\nSevilla.\nValencia.\nMadrid.\nGijón.\nPerpignan, France.\nZurich, Switzerland.\n\nINTERNATIONAL SHOWS:\n\nFrankfurt, Germany.\nMiami, USA.\nNew York.\nMexico.\nBuenos Aires.\n\nPrivate collections: Germany, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, England, Brazil, Japan and Hungary, in addition to Spain.\n\nFor more information about the artist go to: \n\nhttps://www.monografias.com/trabajos94/pintor-francesc-vidal-gardella/pintor-francesc-vidal-gardella