Paco Sánchez

Paco Sánchez was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1947. Belonging to the Generation of the 70s, Sánchez trained at the Luján Pérez school as a student of Felo Monzón, a leading artist of indigenism on the islands. The ripening of Paco Sánchez's plastic universe began in those formative years, focusing, above all, around the ideas of the island and the south and what they meant for its people: isolation and poverty. Both identity conditions were interpreted and assimilated by the artist through the myth — his origin and continuity — linking the pre-Hispanic universe of the islands with that of his own childhood in Gran Canaria. The artist has worked with practically the same mythological elements for more than five decades but combined in different ways. As for his painting, he usually uses saturated flat colors and silhouetted shapes, with different points of view, both frontal and aerial, and his copious figures—humans, animals and chimeras—populate his canvases along with pre-Hispanic and later architectures.