Francisco Viri

Francisco Pellicer Viri draws both childlike and complicated lines in his paintings. With his developed principle of “one-liner” or unbroken line figure, he consistently treads on the pendulous themes between existential freedom and solitude, innocence and inanity, coherence and absurdity. 

The line is not just a simple line that Viri might have started as a child then continued during his formal studies (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in Rhode Island School of Design, a prestigious school in fine arts and design in the USA. His line is a streak of a continuous line, which starts from a certain point then goes back to the same point after forming a seamless figure, thus mimicking the unbroken perimeter of a circle with no beginning or end.

“The line,” says Viri “is the basic element that forms the figures in my works. Each composition is structured by only one line. The line is the heart of the drawing. The line is the soul of my paintings.”

In this vein, Viri proposes an eccentric artistic style that embodies the principle of continuity. Behind the opulent forms and colors of his art, lies the symbolic representation of a solitary figure, drawn or painted in a circuitous unbroken line. What is profoundly tangible in his art is the poetic rendition of solitude and, to a certain extent, his proclivity to existential soloism. However, even in his elegiac portrayal of solitariness, Viri’s sensibility and humor emerge in some of his compositions.