(Oviedo, 1963)

He was born in Oviedo in 1963 and began to show his artistic talent from a very early age. In his youth, he moved to Madrid, where he studied Fine Art at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Whilst in the capital, he began working at the Antonio Machón Gallery, producing highly kitsch, very textural paintings in which he used pigments mixed with glue splattered onto the canvas and very garish brushstrokes.

In 1995, he moved to Rome after receiving a scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study painting at the Acedima de España in Rome.

After a 20-year hiatus in his artistic output, he resumed his work in 2014 with a style of painting closer to drawing.

Luis Rodríguez Vigil’s work presents a range of artistic variations in which realist, expressionist and symbolist elements coexist, amongst other characteristics specific to his style. The result is a realism all of his own, a kind of artistic-existential utopia that defies categorisation into specific artistic movements. The romantic sentiment, the subtlety of the colour harmonies and the creation of illusory, dreamlike spaces for the ghostly appearance of his characters bring him close to Symbolism, yet he remains distinct from it in his sophisticated, ‘barbaric’ naturalism and his artistic technique.