Eusebio Sempere (Onil, 1923-1985) spent 12 years of his life, between the end of 1948 and the beginning of 1960, in Paris, where the artist had the opportunity to learn about modernity and be a part of art. its time. He experienced difficult times in the French capital, full of small successes and great economic difficulties. The work done during the day to survive left him only time to paint at night, tired and sad. In these efforts, he explores geometric abstraction while building his own artistic vocabulary, which is reflected in two key threads in his career. On the one hand, the so-called ‘Parisian gouaches’ are gouaches on cardboard: a quiet and almost secret work that reaches a surprising maturity. On the other hand, ‘luminous reliefs’, a type of work with electrical installations in which geometric shapes are cut, simulating movement along different planes that are alternately illuminated.
