Mixed media: Pols de marbre, coarse stone and pigment on canvas. stat excel.slow
Modest Sala Sebastià (Badalona, 1951) is a painter and writer. Signa les seves obres com “Walas”. Influenced by family tradition, she has dedicated herself to painting since she was 18 years old in a self-taught way. His initial figurative style will evolve towards abstract expressionism and later cap to informalism.
Most of these works have an essential material component, which gives these paintings a characteristic texture. The technique he uses to create the seven paintings is complex. It manufactures its own diluents that it sweeps up with marble and other materials. The base of the color are pigments a l'oli.
Throughout his career, he has held national and international exhibitions: Principal Art Barcelona, AFF Art Fair, SIART, GMAC LA Bastille Paris, MARBART, Art Fair Cologne, Donostean Kursal, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Hirochima Prefectural Art Museum, Art Beijing, Art Baho, EFE Serrano Gallery, Nou Mil.leni Gallery, Cervantes Gallery, ST-ART.11 Strasbourg, Aragon Gallery, Fundación Iberoamericana Universidades.
He has published Demoniacal (LegaxArt, 2014), Materiae vs Vitae (LEgaxArt2015) and Are we humans vermin? (LegaxArt,2017)