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Artist: Lluis Ribas

An exhibition of new and recent works by Spanish Luminista Lluís Ribas. His work is characterized by his expert knowledge of light, shade, and opaqueness. He is particularly skilled at drawing classic female forms with delicate and brilliant execution. Ribas's paintings are profoundly beautiful and feature a wide range of colors that he employs with great care.

"Within the rich and varied subject of themes that Lluis Ribas has chosen,
the most stimulating and captivating, without doubt, is that of the female.
Only such a select spirit as his, only such a brush as his, soaked in delicacy,
could confront the universal theme of the woman and emerge triumphant." – J. Mascaro Passarius

Lluís Ribas was born on December 28, 1949, in Masnou, Spain, a coastal town in the Maresme district near Barcelona. Ribas used to spend hours on the beach drawing in the sand. His mother wished for him to have a better life than that of a fisherman. At the age of nine, he started taking drawing and painting classes with Jose Maris Martinez. When he turned 13, he enrolled in the "Escuela Massana" in Barcelona. In 1975, at the age of 25, Ribas held his first solo exhibition, which earned him international recognition. Since then, he has exhibited his works in some of the most prestigious galleries in Europe and the United States. To date, five books have been published about his paintings.

Ribas is a well-known contemporary Spanish artist who specializes in luminism. His work is characterized by his profound knowledge of light, shade, and opaqueness. He is particularly skilled at drawing classic female forms with delicate and brilliant execution. Ribas's paintings are profoundly beautiful and feature a wide range of colors that he employs with great care.

As the son of fishermen, Ribas learned about the uncertainties of a life dependent on the sea at an early age. Nevertheless, he always felt drawn to the beach as it represented the starting point of an adventure across the waters.

As a young artist, Ribas chose the sea, with its continuous harmonic movement, as another favorite theme, which he expresses on his canvas with great emotional precision.

Ribas is an artist who values quality over quantity. He prefers to work slowly, continuously refining his vision in an endless pursuit of aesthetics. His career has spanned over twenty years, and his paintings are highly sought after by galleries and collectors alike. Ribas is not a prolific painter, and his disciplined approach to painting requires years of planning for an exhibition.

“Ribas has shown his command of technique, his drawing capacity, and his great skill in a wide range of themes – especially the female figure, the touchstone par excellence for all painters. The figure of the woman, dressed in transparent clothes, facing the sea, caressed by the sun, leaves us in no doubt that he can take on any subject matter that he pleases. Only when you love something, when you feel it in your heart, can you translate it on to canvas the way Lluis Ribas does. And he converts each of his canvases into a study of light; blending the tone, working the material, capturing not only the reality, which is the guideline Ribas always maintains, but also the special atmosphere which pervades all of his paintings. His brushwork is insistent, and carries out work that is almost that of a miniaturist, uninvolved with the passage of time. In each of his paintings, Ribas knows just how far to go, knows when just one more brushstroke could shatter the magic charm of the canvas. Reality immersed in atmosphere prevails in all of his paintings. Light penetrates the canvas and become a neutral fundamental element; it is the creator of transparency and reflected sunlight, ennobling all that is beautiful, founding and settling the deep human breath which beats in each and every canvas of Ribas.” – Joan Llop