TEN YEARS AFTER<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The past month of September marks ten years of the definite absence of Xavier Valls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I still seem to hear at our meetings in Paris, Barcelona or Madrid. The painter had a personal charm narrative, a motif for the portrait oral, a special memory for seemingly less and less relevant, and perhaps more of a probe, a fine irony that was in the target to disarm pretentious and fantoches .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is No doubt that among the painters of the exquisite and subtle, intimate and severe, of the sensible and discreet, is Xavier Valls. Their paint absorbs the poetry of the lived experience, of what is supposedly inconsequential, with a clear sense of the extent.<\/p>\n\n\n
Xavier Valls not painted the reality, but its aroma. \u201cThe reality \u2013he said - is wonderful, but with the condition that it be considered, a dream with the objects or landscapes.\u201d It is not actually the thing that attracted him, but its spectrum in the light, after its slow distillation in the process of observation. A filtered light, soft shades, with the slight tremor of emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What mattered was the hue. Alejo Carpentier wrote that sometimes, in the painting of Valls, \u201cappears to be a serious figure of a naked woman, as still as the edged mountain in the clarity of their gentle seas look\u201d. Its landscapes have distance, moisture profiles indefinite, mists stationed, a fragile stillness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xavier Valls was not a theoretician, but their convictions are held on a long and patient practice of the painting. Not born a speech and then try to translate it into action, but that he painted for years and then was the explanation of what has been lived and experienced. Explanations that he was pleased to hear from the lips of their creator. Listen to him talk about art \u2013yours and others\u2013 it was a real feast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Valls had a retina taster, who examined and appreciated what unnoticed, that transcended in poetry what dwells in our environment without having found their magnet and its mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the drawings, this exhibition \u2013Francisco Calvo Serraller analyses with authority\u2013 is the essence of the work of Xavier Valls. The painter gave a lot of importance to their drawings, considered to be the backbone of his work, to be governed by a surprising idea of order. Here also the light saves the possible severity of its schema approach, but always maintaining a kind of architecture secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xavier is not, but his work remains, and we can enter into dialogue with it. And in this way, to talk to him...<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez-Braso<\/p>\n\n\n
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