Paco Simón

Paco Simón

Born in Barcelona, 1954, Simón studied in the School of Arts of Zaragoza where he met his partners at the Grupo Forma (1972 to 1976). After a period of intense activity with the group, he continued his activity separately. He started to work with Sala Gaspar in Barcelona doing multiple exhibitions in Spain and abroad. His work became intensely colourist, full of eroticism and sensuality.

In 1988, Simón set up a studio in New York, and split his time between there and his home in Zaragoza. He returned to abstraction and made large-scale paintings creating floating architectures with a restrained palette. Gradually he began to re-introduce colour, making paintings where the organic and the cellular co-exist in space. Some of these paintings refer to cosmic space, others to urban, keeping the rhythm and balance of the landscape.

Coloured shapes began to emerge from the surface of these paintings making them seem three-dimensional. He continues to paint, but since 1995 he has become interested also in installations where light and colour become very important. He works in different places: Israel, Australia, United States, Poland, Germany, Great Britain, etc. Since the year 2000 he has run the association Arte en Órbita, which organises cultural projects internationally.

Simón considers himself a multimedia artist who loves paintings and handmade work, who does not stop researching and is constantly looking for new ways that can surprise him.