LUIS VIDAL

Projects such as Umbilical Meninos (2001) have marked a very unconventional personal trajectory. Luis Vidal moves with ease in the fields of sculpture, installation, leather engraving and drawing; he also circulates his work in the most prestigious museums and international galleries.

He is a multifaceted artist, as evidenced by his many forays into film projects, his explorations as a curator, his ventures into fashion and design, and his recent creative social project that seeks original ways to raise funds for underdeveloped regions of Africa.

However, his work has not strayed from that irritating subversive quality, as Luis walks his own path without being trapped in the cogs of the elite of collectors or art critics. Vidal is endowed with a more global perspective on the harsh reality that surrounds us.

Life – in all its inner violence, corruption and endless struggle between good and evil – is channeled in his installations not as a consecrated, provocative formalism, but as an emotional experience under construction, which is, therefore, capable of being contemplated by the viewer with the necessary critical detachment.

Text courtesy Alzueta Gallery.