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A concept for my work is the idea of showing the image window. I use figurative elements. Over these figurative elements, I overlay geometric shapes with “abstract” forms  and at the same time in another spatial level, as if it were in an inner space and could see the outer space through a window. This comes very close to Magritte's art “Cuadros ventana” (“Windows Pictures”). Other concept, my interest is in mix oposit concepts, like figurative/abstract, classic/contemporary, painting reality/photography/reality. I have been painting since childhood and had a good tutor in Barcelona (Spain) with a gallery that sold me all my work who lived between Barcelona and Paris. In 1997 I stopped painting due to cancer, I started dating again in 2009 and in 2011 I moved to London where I have my studio, with various exhibitions and art fairs in that city.

Francisco Nicolá's works are in the following collections:
CAAM Murcia - CULTURAL RIOJA. Logroño - REINA SOFíA COLLECTION. Madrid. La Caixa. Barcelona - Autonomous Region of Murcia. Murcia - COLLECTION D'ART L'Avui. Barcelona - Mango Collection. Murcia. GOVERNMENT COLLECTION. Madrid. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York, Bank of America. And in numerous private collections around the world
His work has been exhibited at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Royal Academy of London, the Arco Madrid, the Pinta Art Fair in London and the London Art Fair in numerous art galleries in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Paris.

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