It is a visual artist experimentalist, although the genesis of his work is watercolor. Francisco Urban uses different materials adapting it to his paintings, as being complements of a broader view of the world around us. He creates dynamic atmospheres that transform the canvas in three-dimensional processes.
In your work there is a certain recycling of different materials. Since always felt this need to mix concepts?
Francisco Urbano: Not always. I consider myself a watercolorist, because it allows dominate certain rebelliousness in the paint, in the materials. I like working with watery, dripping paint thru the support and try to dominate them with paper, they mix up and give something other than we had expected. That's how I identify the source. Over time I like new things, started using new materials and experiment. My work is very experimentalist; there are others who do it also. I am not alone. I like to use different materials, adhesives, resins, woods and plasters in my work.
Then they are inserted into artistic installations?
FU: No, I work in series. I have a canvas titled "baby tiger" that belongs to a series of 30 works depicting progenitor and babies animals. The difference is that I present it with elements taken from nature. Peel pine, resins in watercolors with drawing. Currently, I am working on the film series, used the posters that serve to promote the movie, the idea behind them is that when the film premieres are the focus of attention on the street and after that suffer the effects of erosion, graffiti, sun, rain, wind and all that darkens it slightly. I decided to revive them and bring them back the spotlight and show has some films that marked me as a cinephile.
What inspires you in your work? Note that there is a great diversity of themes; ideas emerge when walking down the street?
FU: It happens sometimes walking the streets and get some ideas for themes that I like and try to develop them in the fine arts, with such experimentalist work and recycle material. I feel the need to develop materials. The themes are very varied and I test different concepts. I have worked in a more erotic series, with naked; I entitled them of "models" are portraits of models throughout the history of painting. Formerly the models posed for hours for the masters, usually, it all ended in great novels. The techniques were different and they had to be together during days or weeks, so I decided to present the works of the masters with my technique was a series that I really liked to do and I think I'll go back, because is not completed. It is a very interesting work.
