Ángel Sevillano’s work brings us closer to a pictorial exploration that emerges from playing with the support itself, hovering between lines and colors, and between the solidity and transparency of forms. In this exhibition, these boundaries and dualities are heightened through the site-specific development of each piece, as if they had intentionally been conceived to illuminate internal questions of painting related to materiality and the limitations imposed by its adaptation within any architectural space. In a rather ironic approach, we see paintings that bend around corners, cover floors, flank windows, and span doorways.
Within his representations there exists a kind of retinal persistence that brings together images that are, at first glance, heterogeneous and disconnected in time and place, yet that maintain an underlying consistency. Flowers, figures, and animals each assert themselves as still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, and together they reaffirm the visual tension inherent to each genre. This cloud of subjects and stagings is articulated around a series of Romantic ideas that surround Ángel Sevillano’s work. They speak of unexpected encounters, bucolic strolls, waiting, unrequited love, doubt and attraction—all of them facets of intimate and vital experiences of love.