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David San Francisco

My artistic practice focuses on producing works capable of generating knowledge that adapts to the individual experience of each viewer. These are images in which I deliberately avoid assigning a predetermined meaning, allowing each person to construct their own interpretation through memory, perception, and lived experience. In this way, the work evolves alongside the individual, remaining open and mutable over time. I understand painting as a language that enables a specific form of communication. When an artwork maintains a sufficient degree of ambiguity, it can establish a meaningful bond with the viewer and operate as an active participant in an ongoing dialogue rather than as a closed statement.

Silver and copper function as directional elements within the image, encouraging each work to interact with the surrounding space. These materials are combined with graphic marks reminiscent of writing, designed to stimulate curiosity and invite the viewer to enter the pictorial field. The compositions are structured on surfaces conceived as walls, revealing multiple strata that introduce varying depths, while areas of exposed, unworked canvas confront these constructed surfaces directly. This tension generates a visual interplay in which no single element dominates, granting the viewer greater freedom in navigating the image.

The golden ratio formats and compositions that characterize my work act as visual connectors, fostering relationships between the viewer, the artwork, and the space in which it exists. Through this resonance with its environment, the work opens up new fields of interpretation and spatial reading.

I propose a slow, contemplative artistic experience in which the level of the viewer’s engagement determines the meaning of the image. It is through this active relationship between the artwork and the individual that significance emerges.

  • Born inValladolid, Spain
  • Lives and works inMadrid
  • EducationFine Arts, PHD, Complutense University of Madrid

Exhibitions

Exhibition history
2024

Abstract Today

Espacio 15 Art Gallery · Madrid
Colectiva
2024

Los 15 de Espacio 15

Espacio 15 Art Gallery · Madrid
Colectiva
2024

Febrero

La Zona Gallery · Madrid
Colectiva
2023–24

La imagen Vaciada

Biblioteca Pública de Zamora · Zamora
Individual
2024

Jóvenes pintores

La Salina · Salamanca
Colectiva
2022

Jóvenes pintores

La Salina · Salamanca
Colectiva
2021–22

I-T(f)

Hospital de Día Pío XII · Madrid
Individual
2020–21

I-T(f)

Galería Luis Méndez · Salamanca
Individual
2019–20

Premio Ibercaja de Pintura Joven

Sala de Exposiciones Patio de la Infanta · Zaragoza
Colectiva
2018

Now, the Part of Intuition

La Trasera · Madrid
Colectiva
2018

Las 11 condiciones

La trasera · Madrid
Colectiva
2017–18

Bellas Artes

DomusArtium2002 · Salamanca
Colectiva
2017

The Wall

Escuela de Arte y Escuela Superior de Conservación y Restauración · Salamanca
Individual
2016–17

Bellas Artes

Palacio de Quintanar · Segovia
Colectiva
2016

Punto y Aparte

La Salchichería · Salamanca
Colectiva

Competitions and Awards

Achievements
2024

Programa de Arte Joven de Castilla y León

Finalista · Valladolid · 2024
Finalista
2023

Pintores Jóvenes

Fundación Gaceta · Salamanca · noviembre 2023
Seleccionado
2023

Programa de Arte Joven de Castilla y León

Valladolid · 2023
Mención especial
2022

Pintores Jóvenes

Fundación Gaceta · Salamanca · noviembre 2022
Seleccionado

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