Manuel Doblas Pinto (1957) - Autoretrato

Signed by the author on the bottom part

On the back, it is signed and titled again

The work is presented framed

The condition is good

Dimensions of the artwork: 41 x 33 cm.

Dimensions of the frame: 63 x 55 cm.

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BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST

Manuel Doblas, born in Humilladero (Málaga) in 1957, but trained from a very young age in Catalonia and with a mindset well rooted among us, has been a painter for many years. He followed the path of collective shows starting in 1981 and held his first solo exhibition in 1992, precisely in this same Sala Rusiñol where we find him again today. He has won many prizes in diverse places and has not hesitated to participate regularly—he still does—in quick-painting competitions all over the Spanish state. This, which for others may seem a obstacle, because after helping him gain ease and find his own formulas that define his style, often leads to recurring ways of working, in his case has represented a highly useful system for finding himself and to be able to say with propriety what he desires.

Only those who fear explaining things believe they will find themselves very soon. And those who are always thinking—this is the case of Manuel Doblas—never stop feeling the restlessness to move forward. That is why this painter, of whom we now see what he has just done, seeks high spaces by capturing the verticality of the skyscrapers and describes abandoned train stations because he is not interested in waiting, but in seeking exits toward a horizon marked by the iron rails that, after crossing intersections, remain fixed because they serve the inner movement of people.

Manuel Doblas has changed his way of expressing himself and has done so for the better. Gifted in plastic expression and with mastery of the technique, he does not stop, but advances.