Félix Rubio

FÉLIX RUBIO — Spain

Félix Rubio is a Spanish contemporary painter whose work explores perception, memory, identity and the instability of contemporary experience through a personal dialogue between figuration and abstraction.

With a degree in Philosophy, Rubio approaches painting from an anti-realist perspective: reality should not simply be reproduced, but questioned, fragmented and reconstructed. Philosophy is therefore not an illustration in his work, but a conceptual starting point. References to thinkers such as Heraclitus, Leibniz, Spinoza and Bauman coexist with influences from European figurative painting, expressionism and contemporary abstraction.

His paintings combine recognisable figures with disrupted spaces, gestural marks, overlapping planes and areas in which bodies appear to emerge from or dissolve into their surroundings. He works primarily with oil and mixed media, using acrylic grounds, pigments, gesso, impasto, glazes, drawing and scraped surfaces to create paintings with a strong physical and material presence.

Rubio is particularly interested in the tension between beauty and rupture: apparently familiar scenes become unstable through fragmentation, spatial contradictions and changes in pictorial language...

Degree in Philosophy — UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Spain.
Independent artistic practice and continuous research in painting, contemporary art and aesthetics.

2026 — XIII Expoparty – Tribute to Lola Flores, Galería Manolo Alés, La Línea de la Concepción, Spain
2026 — 6th W.A.B. Biennale, Bra, Italy
2026 — Roràrte, “Rosso di Terra”, Costigliole d’Asti, Italy