Francisco Landazábal

I am an art entrepreneur, philosopher and fine artist who discovered through art, the way to defeat time and space. I want to heal and amuse people with a direct and honest way to express the art of painting with acrylics and oil sticks on canvas.

While figurative art is a matter of doing it technically well, abstraction is like a “leap into the void” where your mind has to be fully connected with the representation of an idea through the strokes that depict a space arrangement or composition and the precise performance of colors with their own scale value and tone like in a symphony. I always tried to keep the visible strokes as part of the drawing, discovering recently that the strokes became like a calligraphy of soul, like a photo of my inner reality. Thus, the abstract expressionist background became a wall, a beautiful background to “say” something else, with words, with straightforward messages to the viewer.

Within the messages, sometimes irony is an important way of communicating to a society that is largely sleeping or skeptical.

With my “canvas graffiti” proposal, I want to go beyond, to that point in which I can not only do something beautiful, but to publicly declare any thought or any position that comes f...

Mostly self-taught. I also studied in the atelier of Jean Pierre Accault, a french master who used to live in Cartagena, my hometown.

Several local and international exhibitions held in Colombia and USA during more than three decades of career.