Paco Dalmau

abstract - installation - mural - public space - social

Paco Dalmau's pictorial practice explores the interplay of color and depth perception as a method of producing abstract expressive work. The selection of a chromatic range is the starting point towards this dialogue, where the erosion of the material, the glazes and the blurring of the color, manages to incorporate into each painting a distance between layers and values, which provides a feeling of depth, mysticism and spirituality. Introspection, motivation, self-awareness and the way of perceiving his relationship with the world are important subjects for Paco Dalmau. With these ingredients, Dalmau makes the exercise to internalize his sensations and emotions in order to carry out this experimentation on the canvases. Since 2012 he lives and works in Rotterdam (NL), where the conceptual and methodological influences of the Dutch artistic culture have permeated his artistic practice. This cultural miscegenation defines the current work of the Valencian artist, where passion, method and concept converge in his creative proposal.


PAN Amsterdam

Exhibition / presentation

Art North IV

Exhibition / presentation

Paco Dalmau. White Wall Project

Project

  • 13-10-2018 t/m 04-11-2018
  • In collaboration with: Stedelijk museum Schiedam, Kade40 Vlaardingen, Theater Kooningshoof Maassluis
  • Location: Beatrixpark Schiedam, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Kade40 Vlaardingen, Theater Kooningshoof Maassluis, Schiedam
  • Paco Dalmau will close his White Wall Project, for which he won the Waterweg Cultuurprijs 2017, at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. This summer more than 1000 people from Maassluis, Vlaardingen and Schiedam painted an 800 meter long canvas in the Schiedam Beatrix Park. Paco chose the most beautiful parts of it for this exhibition. The exhibition is free of charge.
  • https://www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/tentoonstelling/paco-dalmau-white-wall-project/

Evolution series 2021-2022

Exhibition / presentation

  • 13-12-2021 t/m 31-01-2022
  • Location: BAD Foundation, Rotterdam
  • Evolution series seeks to explore the interplay of color and depth perception as a method of producing abstract, expressive work. The objective of these paintings is to create images of organic shapes, paintings that seem simply born by themselves, where the artist's action becomes almost invisible. The erosion of the material, the glazes and the blurring of the color, manages to incorporate into each painting a distance between layers and values, which provides a feeling of depth, mysticism, an
  • https://www.foundationbad.nl/paco-dalmau-evolution-series/

Un acto de creation. (An act of creation)

Exhibition / presentation

Evolution series by Paco Dalmau and sculptures by Anton Vrede

Exhibition / presentation

  • 25-04-2018 t/m 15-04-2018
  • Location: Gallery HOMMES, art and projects, Rotterdam
  • Paco Dalmau Arrufat's (1978, ES) artistic practice is broad and covers both painting and social public installations, such as the White Wall Project. In his new series of paintings, Dalmau explores subjects that are anchored in the painting tradition, such as color and layering.
  • https://www.hommes.nl/newpage10

Art | Basel | Miami Beach.

Exhibition / presentation

  • 02-12-2021 t/m 04-12-2021
  • In collaboration with: Alfa Gallery Miami
  • Location: , Miami
  • Group show from Alfa Gallery artists at Art Basel Miami 2021 and extended online on Artsy.
  • https://www.alfa-gallery.com/art-basel-2021

View from Balcony Peak

Exhibition / presentation

  • 16-04-2022 t/m 29-05-2022
  • In collaboration with: Galerie Larik
  • Location: , Utrecht
  • View from Balcony Peak (Group show) Babs Bleeker, Daan den Houter, Eliz Zegers, Eva Spierenburg, Kevin Nieuwenhuijs, Lucas van Eeden, Maaike Kramer, Paco Dalmau and V&B
  • https://galerielarik.nl/exhibition/

Acknowledgments

    Pricing
  • Waterway Culture Prize. Schiedam. Vlaardingen, Maassluis.

  • 2017
    Publication
  • Paco Dalmau. Polyptych's family portraits.

  • 2011
  • Catalog exhibition Museu Casa Polo. Paco Dalmau. Polyptych's family portraits.
  • Ayuntamiento de Vila Real. Concejalias de Cultura y Museos. - Juan Jose Rubert, Alejandro Font de Mora, Isabel Rubio y Antonio Gasco.