He didn’t just devote himself to catering Francisco Arquillowho was very protagonist this year for his intervention at the Macarena. The professor inaugurated this Tuesday at the Casa de los Pinelo, headquarters of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Seville, a … exhibition which looks back on his journey in the world of painting. The exhibition covers 18 works from virtually every stage of the artist and includes different techniques, formats, media and motifs.
During the presentation, Arquillo himself explained that “even if I am not known as a painter, I hope that it is recognized that I had a life intensely dedicated to painting. It’s my constant travel companion. “I’m known as a restaurateur, but I’ve always wanted to paint.” After his academic training in Fine Arts, Arquillo discovered the conservation of works of art in Madrid and launched into it. “But I always continued to paint. “I combined my training as a technician, as a person endowed with scientific rigor and artistic sensitivity, with the vocation, which allows you to adapt your feelings and emotions, and to express experiences that you cannot do otherwise.”
The professor continues by declaring: “I have always really liked research. In one painting there is a pictorial process, in another painting there is a different support, a different technique, because I like to investigate and look for new things. Each painting has something different“. He also emphasized, and the exhibition is a good example, that “in terms of pictorial concepts, I don’t stick to anything other than what I paint, because I want to paint, and depending on the mood, one thing will come out or another thing will come out.” I don’t paint to sell“I paint to satisfy my desire for beauty.”
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Participants at the exhibition opening
Arquillo stopped at several jobs exposed. One of them, “Disequilibrium”: “You see that there is a scale where there is an imbalance, because art, for me, weighs more than technology.” Another is a less conventional work and a priori incomprehensible: “Here we have a mushroom seen under an electron microscope and magnified 1,000, 2,000 or 200 times. So these are the roots of the fungus. This is an interpretation called “Invisible Nature”.
He also highlighted a painting made with the technique of mosaic entitled “In memory of Justinian” “which is due to an exercise I did in Ravenna. I have a special affection and devotion for it because on the back there is a dedication to Esperanzi, Ravenna in 1966. I dedicated it to my wife. The sample is completed by day and night landscapes recently made during his travels through Europe during his summer vacation while studying, among others in Olvera, as well as other paintings of different kinds which can be visited until December 19 and from January 12 to 23 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday to Friday.
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