Rafa De Corral

Bilbao 1967
Bachelor BB.AA Vasco1995 Country University, he moved to live in London where he served as professor of painting and drawing. Later settled in Valencia where he lived for fifteen years.
In his paintings, the mere representation has been relegated to the background to make way for a painting sober, where the speech is of great prominence. What started as ideas deserted and desolate cities wrapped in a fog and colorful skies that were lost in a distant horizon, has become dramatically sweeping panoramas leaking exaggerated.
The author explores the visual textures, color balance, composition and shadows fictitious volumes, by using conical perspective. This is a game in which the passion and rigor go hand in hand.
A palette watered; heavens of great presence, concrete, stone and asphalt eroded by the elements - rain, wind -, help the painter to influence the course of his work. Finally progressively diluted the "classic" reference leading to fractious elements represented in a fictional space that comes from within.

"I'm still working around my cities, more deserted and disquieting than ever where now, the fight harmonious visual riches, studied use of color, clean atmosphere that envelops everything and careful geo...

Rafa de Corral
Bilbao, 1967.
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University
the Basque Country. Bilbao.

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Gallery Ansorena. Reclaiming space. Madrid. *
2010 Hall LAMETRO. Structures reasoned. Valencia. *
2010 Magatzems Wall & Video Room. Umbra and Penumbra. Valencia.
2009 Vidal Alonso Gallery repartee Silence as Barcelona.
2008 Culture Room Alzira. Valencia balanced sequences. *
2007 Point Gallery. Stillness feigned. Valencia.
2007 Gallery Xanon. Contrasts. Bilbao.
2006 Blue Caterpillar Art Gallery. The speed of silence. Valencia.
2006 Gallery Nadir. Madrid.
2006 Room Barbasán, Extension of reason. C. A I Zaragoza. *
2005 Museum Rajoleria, Structures tangents to reality. Valencia. *
Gallery 2004 Ansorena. Madrid. *
Art Space 2004 "The Llogeta" of CAM The inner city. Valencia. *
2003 Vasco Navarro Architects Association of Bilbao. PUZZLES Bilbao. *
Culture Room 2002 Quart de Poblet, Hybrid City, Valencia. *
2001 Art Gallery "Carmen Carrión" Small Format, Santander.
2001Galería "Nadir", Valencia
2000Galería, "MelaParedes" Containers, Javea,. Alicante. 2000 Gallery "Pedroso" Epicenter of Soledad, Noja. Santander.
2000 Cultural Space "Carmen Sui generis" City boxes. Valencia.
1999 Cité Universitaire. House of Spain. Precipitated Civilization. Paris. *
1999 "Cavallers" Communicate El Carme...