Brief Bio

Joso Vidal is a self-taught painter born in 1964 in Barcelona. Between 2004 and 2018, he lived and worked in the United States, a key period for his artistic development. He currently lives in Barcelona, where he continues to develop his pictorial work.

His career includes exhibitions in galleries and art fairs both in Europe and the United States, establishing a distinctive voice within the contemporary painting scene.

Art Statement

My work falls within an intuitive and gestural neo-expressionism, where color and free strokes take center stage. I paint images or landscapes that may be recognizable, but I do not seek literal representation; rather, I explore their emotional vibration.

The process is essentially spontaneous: I work with energetic brushstrokes, textures, and layers that suggest more than they define. It is a painting born from inner movement, from the need to create from a physical and sensory space, often leaving room for silence, voids, or forms that dissolve.

I move between figuration and abstraction, with an open and experimental attitude. What interests me is not conveying a closed message, but opening a free space of connection between the work and the viewer, inviting them to look and feel without the mediation of narrative.

Each painting is an exercise in freedom and listening, a visual territory where instinct, the body, and imagination dialogue across the canvas.