Bosque Roibal

Born in the Balearic archipelago, Daniel Roibal (Palma de Mallorca, 2001) began his unique life and artistic journey there: almost like an ancient Greek, he arrived in countless places from which he draws the arguments for his painting, academically seasoned in the United Kingdom, where he resides.

Despite his youth, Roibal has managed to deliver a well-defined artistic discourse, like the clearing that opens up in a forest similar to those he encountered at the first stop on his journey: Costa Rican forests, an initial lost paradise, in the middle of a natural world in clear extinction, from which he manages to extract all his energy by capturing not so much the concrete landscape as a sensory record derived from his experience in it.

So his fabrics, sometimes raw linens, exude a voracious chromatism that should not be sought in those lost virgin scraps but in the sensations they produce: in the end, despite the threats and setbacks, the vitality they offer us, or even the will to overcome them, is much stronger.

His saturated and vibrant work is like a sensitive collage, the product of an unrestrained superimposition of stains and strokes among which, already on the edge of that natural realm of gestures and signs, the silhouette of some concrete forms emerges, almost vegetal, almost logical: everything is like an uninterrupted summer in a spontaneous and fertile movement, in short, for him, a space in which to be and think.

Juan Carlos Aparicio Vega