Gonzalo Sicre Maqueda (Cádiz. 1967) is one of the most interesting figurative artists in Spain.
He settled in Cartagena. his work can be inscribed in the group of neo-painting
metaphysics that counts among its most important representatives to Charris. Joel Mestre and Dis Berlin, reunited in the collective El Muelle de Levante in the early 1990s.
The presentation of exterior and interior spaces without human presence is a constant in Sicre’s work, evidencing a clear abandonment of narration or anecdote, in favor of concentrating on the most purely luminous aspects of painting. His work delves into the relationships between painting and photography, the figurative way in the creation of melancholic spaces and soft lights, rarely do objects become the main and only protagonists.
His work is indebted to the painting of the American painter E. Hopper, Sicre’s images are impregnated with the same sad light and soft melancholy, his compositions are equally calm and orderly, producing the same restlessness so close to mystery that he also captured the American painter in his works.