Manuel Doblas Pinto "Royo" (1957) - Cadaqués (Gerona)

Signed by the author at the bottom "Royo"

The work is presented framed (the frame has a slight flaw)

The condition is good

Dimensions of the artwork: 60 cm in height x 73 cm in width

Dimensions of the frame: 62 cm in height x 75 cm in width

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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 several years. He followed the path of group exhibitions starting in 1981 and held his first solo show in 1992, precisely in this same Sala Rusiñol where we now find him again. He has won many awards in diverse places and it has not prevented him from regularly – he still does – taking part in rapid-painting contests all over the Spanish State. This, which for others may seem an obstacle, because after helping to gain ease and to find formulas that define his style, often leads to arbitrary approaches, in his case has represented a highly useful system for finding himself and confidently saying 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 with Manuel Doblas—never cease to feel the restlessness to move forward. Therefore 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 waiting holds no interest for him; he instead looks for exits toward a horizon marked by the iron rails that, once crossings are past, remain fixed because they serve the inner movement of people.

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