Pedro Paricio

An English gallery makes Pedro Paricio one of the most sought-after
Spanish artists by selling his works for up to 150,000 euros

The prestigious Halcyon Gallery, with three locations in London and
another in Shanghai and which has in its catalog works by masters such
as Picasso and Matisse, began to represent him in 2011. That year he
organized his first solo exhibition of Pedro Paricio from Orotava in the
English capital. Titled Masters of painting, it included 18 works in
which he reinterpreted artists who have always inspired him, such as
Velázquez, Caravaggio or Picasso himself. He did it with his particular
pop style and his striking color palette captivating the attendees, who
on the same opening day bought all of his paintings.

In the second exhibition, Diary of an artist 2007-2012, the gallery
dedicates all its rooms to the Tenerife native and reissues its success.
The 50 pieces are sold for prices ranging from 30,000 to 150,000 euros,
which makes him one of the three most sought-after contemporary Spanish
artists and the fashionable painter of one of the capitals of the
planet. Critics surrender to his talent and he is included in Francesca
Gavin’s book 100 New Artists. Juan Manuel Bonet, former director of the
Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, described it as “the freshest and the best
seen lately in the field of emerging Spanish art”.

Pedro Paricio was born in 1982. He began his Fine Arts degree at the
University of La Laguna, passed through Salamanca and finished it in
Barcelona in 2006. Coming from a humble family, in order to achieve his
dream of dedicating himself to painting, he worked as a delivery man of
pizzas, loading trucks, as a clown at children’s parties, a
photographer, an exhibition curator, and an art critic.

His first exhibitions on the Island were in 2008, at the Casa de la
Cultura in La Orotava and at the Casa del Vino de El Sauzal. After
hanging his work in galleries and halls in Salamanca and Barcelona, ​​in
2012 the first large solo show of him arrived at the Casino de Sevilla,
which captures the attention of the main national media.

Three years earlier, in 2009, Paricio was working as an art critic for a
magazine in Barcelona. He was not doing badly but he had no time to
paint and he felt it was time to choose and he did not hesitate. He left
everything and went to London. As a great consumer of culture, the
English city offered him the opportunity to keep up to date with the
latest trends in all disciplines of art and he hoped to find there a way
to live off his vocation.

He spent two years sleeping on the floor of his studio and outlining a
personal vision, which crosses the limits between the abstract and the
figurative, the object and the narrative to transform his canvases into
ephemeral plays, as he describes them, full of colors. alive. The
harlequin self-portraits that evoke his own aesthetic are recurrent in
his work, dressed in blue jeans, a black jacket, a fine black tie and
his inseparable black hat.

In 2011, when Halcyon unveiled him, English critics began speaking of
him as the Spanish Damien Hirst. Since then, he has lived comfortably
and divides his time between his London studio and La Orotava’s. From
the 31st of this month until March 8, he will share headquarters with
his admired Oscar Domínguez. The TEA will hang Elogio de la Pintura, an
exhibition that will bring together 104 of his works from different
creative periods, almost all owned by private collectors from around the
world.

Source: laopinion.es