Xavier Valls

1923-2006

Alien to all modes, solitary and independent, Xavier Valls approaches the group of painters who, such as Morandi or Luis Fernández, practice an almost frozen exercise of painting, who are able to give meaning to the void or suggest the form of silence from a landscape. Images both interior and evocative, simple and multiple; motifs that we can guess close, organized around a world that opens the workshop, space that contains them or delimits them. The views of Paris, the gentle landscapes, nuanced by delicate gradients of light and colour, constitute, with the still lifes, the usual sequences of a painting to which the passage of time fits.

Miguel Fernández-Cid

1997