Mª Rosa Vidal Tosas
ART GALLERY ZÚCCARO (Madrid 1996)
Antonio Cobos Soto (Senior member of La Critica de Arte Española))
The paintings dreamed by Mº Rosa Vidal Tosas
The young artist Maria Rosa Vidal Tosas, who has a brilliant exhibition career, belongs wholly to the group of artists that don’t need to attract attention.
For her creations she doesn’t need to inspire herself in nature, in that pink-blue hour, nor walk into shantytowns of large cities to reflect the local customs because she realises all her work in her studio.
In all her work, although she might use figurative images as a counterpoint, the major focus and protagonism is her still lifes, which are noble and poetic, and in which she expresses the simple things of her everyday environment.
There’s mastery in all her paintings but especially there’s the power of attraction of her loving creations… “And she always ends up finding love in what was done with love”.
Mireia Guillaumes. Art critic of the magazine Revista Bonart.
We have always considered politically committed artists as the ones who deal with social matters. However there is also another kind of committed artist who is not so interested in the topic, but in the way of expressing it. This last type would be the case of Vidal Tosas who has found in oil painting and in the spaces of light the way to start an investigation which moves between abstract and figurative.
In her formal search, Vidal Tosas began with the Academics. When she saw the still lifes of Morandi, she discovered that new communicative means based on simplicity and in a language which appealed to the most ancestral and primitive feelings were possible. A language which surprisingly was absolutely contemporary and distilled to its purist intimism. Vidal Tosas claims the still life as a starting point to initiate a series of investigations in which the human figure and landscapes take part.
