Born in 1955 in Zaragoza, Spain, Vicente
Pascual Rodigo began to study art in the Escuela de Artes of Zaragoza
and the Escuela de Bellas Artes of Barcelona in 1969. He held
his first solo-show in 1971 and has been exclusively devoted
to art since then.
From 1970 to 1988, he worked with Angel
Pascual Rodrigo in the two-man collective La
Hermandad Pictórica. During the period 1970 to 1974,
they worked on installations and paintings in a style close
to Pop but with a social agenda.
In 1974 and 1975, Vicente Pascual traveled to Afghanistan, Pakistan,
and India. In Pushkar,
Rajhastan, he studied the diverse arts and philosophies of India,
which left an indelible marc in the way Pascual looks at the
life. After his return to Spain in 1975, he became acquainted
with the writings of Frithjof
Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Seyyed
Hossein Nasr. Aware of the accomplishments of contemporary
art, Pascual championed a movement that advocated a return to
an intellectual
landscape filled with symbolism.
From 1980 to 1992, Pascual's studio was in Campanet, Mallorca.
During these years, he traveled regularly to Bloomington, Indiana.
In 1992, he moved his studio to the United States where his
art underwent a severe external change, reducing forms to fundamental
geometry close to the essentialist conception of Agnes Martin's
grids. As Chris
Gilbert summarized, "for Pascual, the shapes-the circles,
squares and other reduced glyphs-in his paintings are forms
akin to the intersubjective schemas of understanding that Plato,
Kant, and Cassirer saw as preconditioning appearances."
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