
PAD LONDON
For the 2020 online edition of PAD London, Opera Gallery is pleased to invite
you in a cross-cultural, engaging experience with a curated selection of works featuring artists such as
Fernando Botero, Joan Miró, Pierre Soulages, Manolo Valdés, Niki de Saint Phalle or Anthony James.

“In art, as long as you have ideas and think,
you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.”
you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.”

“The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words.
The meaning comes later.”
The meaning comes later.”

“Velázquez said that painting should be done with large brushes. That’s how I work. The emotion contained in a colour is expressed by this generosity, by expressing without restrains.”

“For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.”

“I depict time by applying a filter of motion and distortion.”

“I don’t want the viewer to feel like they’re just looking at a material object. I really want them to have experience, to feel that sense of infinity inside themselves.”
