Dino Valls

FORABILIS. oil on canvas. 23 x 20 cms.2000



DINO VALLS is a self-taught Spanish painter living and working in Madrid, Spain. Having previously obtained a degree in medicine, he is now one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of new figurative art. He has participated in important international exhibitions of contemporary art, and has held numerous showings in Europe and the United States.

His paintings (VALLS does not paint from live models or even photographs, but invents his figures) are overflowing with suggestions of pain, isolation, physical discomfort and psychological distress and are painstakingly crafted with the application of layers of tempera over which he lays transparent oil glazes. His technique is steeped in the traditions of old master Dutch and Italian painting, which he has studied.

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