Soledad Sevilla

Soledad Sevilla studied Fine Arts in the sixties at the University of Barcelona and then at the seminar of Automatic Generation of Plastic Forms at the Calculus Center of the University of Madrid. Already in the eighties he made a stay at Harvard University in Boston, USA. Initially situated in the so-called rational abstraction, geometry and the work with light unify his plastic proposal, which began as pictorial and which, in the eighties, progressively incorporated installations and interventions in space.

His painting uses the coldness of the grid as a base on which wefts and modular explorations are deployed, although later on it is dressed with a certain lyricism and expressiveness. Towards the end of the nineties the grid disappears from his painting, although he maintains an idea of geometry, wall and space through the vegetal world. As for his installations, light is a central element in them, often treated geometrically.

Sevilla has intervened heritage spaces such as the Castillo de Velez Blanco in Almeria or some courtyards of the Alhambra in Granada, and has also made formal inquiries on paintings and iconic authors of art history such as Velazquez and Rubens. With a long exhibition career, highlights include retrospective exhibitions presented at the José Guerrero Center in Granada (2015), the Marlborough Gallery in Barcelona (2017), the Tomás y Valiente Art Center in Fuenlabrada (2018) and the Bancaja Cultural Center in Valencia (2019). His work can be found in collections such as the Reina Sofía Museum and the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, Artium in Vitoria-Gasteiz and the MACBA in Barcelona, among many others.