Francisco Calabuig

Francisco Calabuig Gisbert was born in Albalat dels Sorells, Valencia, in 1946. At a very young age, he starts an apprenticeship with painter Antonio Torregrosa, who teaches and mentors Francisco.

In Valencia in 1973, takes place his first exhibit at the “Associació de la Premsa”. Since then, his work has been presented in more than 90 solo exhibits and numerous collective exhibitions.

Witty, graceful, talkative, friendly… Francisco Calabuig is an impressionist with a clean and calm brushstrokes. He repeatedly returns to a collection of tonal, vibrant, perfect impasto, lucid and playful landscapes, in which color, light, and movement initiate a perfectly harmonized song in three voices.

His thematic explores the traditional countryside themes: farmhouses, pines, locust trees, or bushes outlined against the blue-violet background of a sky with body and soul, almost palpable.

Whitewashed country houses, stones piled up...It is a recognized countryside scenery that was experienced before and then reinterpreted, to be made anew according to aesthetic requirements.

Something of Gabriel Miró can be perceived in his small formats, the reduced-size paintings. It is the lyricism, the charm, the juiciness, and the narrative that can be observed in some specific artwork.

Adrián Espí Valdés

Spanish Association of Art Critics, on the work of F. Calabuig

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Some of the galleries where he has exhibited his solo work are:

Sala Pinazo, Valencia
Salón Cano, Madrid
Sala Rusiñol, San Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona)
Sala de arte Lloscos Gallery, Valencia
Galería de arte San Jorge, Alcoy, (Alicante)
Euroarte Galería de Arte Europea, Lisboa (Portugal)
Sala de arte Florida Blanca II, San Lorenzo del Escorial (Madrid)
Galería Goyaz, San Sebastián
Galería de arte Ausaga, León
Galeria d’Art Terraferma, Lérida
Forum Artis, Motril (Granada)
Sala de Arte Monticelli, Gijón (Asturias)
Galería de Arte Zúccaro. Madrid
“Diálogos con la luz” Excma. Diputación de Alicante. Palacio Provincial
MD Segrelles del Pilar. Valencia
Galería de Arte Van Gogh. Granada
Galería Portal a l’Art, Calpe, Alicante
Galería San Antón, Pamplona
Galería de arte Sala Goya, Palma de Mallorca

Some outstanding group exhibitions:

Museo da Água, Lisboa (Portugal), Coletiva “30 pintores Alicantinos” Excma. Diputación de Alicante. Horizon One, El Cairo, Egipto. Paisaje y pintura en el Mediterráneo, dieciocho pintores de la Comunidad Valenciana. Corts Valencianes

His work has been included in, among others:

“DICCIONARIO DE PINTORES Y ESCULTORES ESPAÑOLES DEL SIGLO XX” de Forum Artis
ARTE ESPAÑOL 1981, GALART 1997, ARTEGUÍA 1998
DICCIONARIO DE ARTISTAS VALENCIANOS SIGLO XX, “PINTORES ALICANTINOS 1900-2000” published by the Diputación Provincial de Alicante and the catalogue-book that on the occasion of the exhibition “DIÁLOGOS CON LA LUZ”- 2004 published by the Diputación de Alicante.

CONTACT
email: fcalabuiggisbert@gmail.com
Phone: 616201099

WEBSITE
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