A Separate Reality - 100 x 130 - Named as finalist with special mention - MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art), Barcelona, Spain

A Separate Reality was chosen as finalist work at MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art), Barcelona, Spain.

This work by Francisco Sánchez was named a finalist with a special mention at the MEAM Museum (European Museum of Modern Art) Barcelona, Spain, as part of one of the most anticipated events on the international art calendar: Figurativas.

Organized by the Private Foundation for the Arts and Artists, this prestigious figurative painting and sculpture competition has established itself since 2006 as a key platform for recognizing contemporary figurative artists from around the world.

In honoring A Separate Reality, the jury reaffirmed the vitality of Sánchez’s surrealist narrative—featuring gray skies, rugged mountains, pyramidal structures, and desolate paths leading nowhere—thereby placing his work in dialogue with the most significant voices in contemporary figurative art as his work aligns more closely with Romantic and Expressionist traditions (Caspar David Friedrich, and later Kiefer), in which color is pared back to intensify the sense of solitude and monumentality.

This painting stands out as a work that marks a turning point of maturity in the artist's career.The grey skies, the desolate paths, the rugged mountains and pyramidal structuresplace the painting in dialogue with the great voices of contemporary figurative art.The palette of contrasts—ranging from gray and black to white—intensifies the drama of the landscape and reinforces the sense of isolation and solitude.

However, it is the underlying composition that gives the work its full power: the artist emphasizes visual resonances and likens the arrangement to musical chords. This musical analogy reflects a quest for harmony, in which forms and contrasts combine like sound registers to create a visual rhythm.

Thus, this painting can be considered a seminal work, in which structural rigor and dramatic force converge in a pictorial symphony.

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