Artist profile
Visual artist from Alicante
"In my creative process I try to connect with my most primitive brain, not to think or at least not to work with very elaborate thoughts, to work with gesture, with intuition and with the music I listen to.
Uncertainty in our personal lives and in the world is what drives me to paint, and to do so through a process also dominated by uncertainty about the outcome.
My training as a Biologist gives me an evolutionary vision of the natural world and of human beings that I transfer to my works, but from a lyrical point of view, without science, looking for what is not clear, what we perceive but cannot explain, what slips through our fingers.
The paintings of Chauvet, Altamira, or Pla de Petracos. Darwin and the evolution of species. Human evolution from the first hominids to Homo sapiens. Science fiction films that present future worlds (2001: A Space Odyssey, Dune...) all of that is in my works in some way, and it is reflected on canvases that look like any wall in a modern city, with stains, marks, advertising, graffiti.
I paint with a faraway look, letting things happen, accepting them. I try
to understand a world that is always modern and old, without giving explanations, only with paint.
Visual artist from Alicante,
In my creative process I try to connect with my most primitive brain. Not thinking or at least not working with very elaborate thoughts. I work with the gesture, with my intuition and with the music I listen to.
Uncertainty in our personal lives and in the world is what leads me to paint and to do so through a process also dominated by uncertainty about the result.
My training as a Biologist gives me an evolutionary vision of the natural world and the human being that I transfer to my works, but from a lyrical point of view, without science, looking for what is not clear, what we perceive but cannot explain, what It slips through our fingers.
The paintings of Chauvet, Altamira or Pla de Petracos. Darwin and the evolution of species. Human evolution from the first hominids to homo sapiens. Science fiction cinema that proposes future worlds (2001: a space odyssey, Dune...) all of this is in my works in some way, and is captured on canvases that look like any wall of a modern city, with stains, brands, advertising, graffiti.
I paint with a lost gaze, letting things happen, accepting them. I try to
understand a world that is always modern and old, without giving explanations, only with painting.
Interview in Gorilla Art Magazine 2025
Alfonso Sánchez, winner of the 3rd Sánchez Butrón National Painting Competition
Alfonso Sánchez selected for the Valencia Art Biennial 2023
Alfonso Sánchez Exhibition "I Have a Plan" Alicante
Art Review Artelista 2022 - Alfonso Sánchez
Interview at the Contemporary Art Platform (PAC)
The expressionist work of Alfonso Sánchez - Diario Información
Finalist work 31 Antonio Arnau National Painting Prize - Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo) 2022
Finalist work 63 Gredos National Painting Prize - Arenas de San Pedro (Ávila) 2022
Finalist work 55th National Painting Contest Villa de Sant Joan d'Alacant 2022
Finalist work 28th Eusebio Sempere Painting Biennial - Onil (Alicante) 2022
Finalist work 30th National Competition Villa de Mancha Real (Jaen) 2022
Honorable Mention YOT Painting Awards Barcelona 2022
Finalist work in the 18th National Painting Prize "Primero 2023" Toro (Zamora)
Finalist work XXV Francisco Carretero Painting Competition Tomelloso (Ciudad Real) 2023
Selected artist for the VI Valencia Biennial 2023
Finalist work, II Francisco Pedraja Muñoz International Painting Prize. Badajoz 2023
Finalist work XXXIV Villa de Montellano Painting Competition. Seville 2026.
His work is held in private collections in Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Finland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the USA, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia.
Contact:
Mobile: 600248019
E-mail: alsape1302@gmail.com
Instagram: alfonso.sanchez.art
Study:
Sant Joan d'Alacant (Alicante)