Daniel Verbis
León 1968

Daniel Verbis graduated in Fine Arts from Salamanca University. Since his first exhibition at the Art23CB Gallery (Salamanca) in 1990, his work has been noted for the use of an alphabet of unusual and unpredictable forms, an unclassifiable system of formal correlations packed with visual aphorisms, puns and wordplays. An output determined by the crisscrossing and intersection of drawing, painting, sculpture and text.

Verbis has often defined his painting as an ‘awkward’ practice. His work does not follow conventions or indeed any known exception, not even the dissent tolerated in the history of art after the first avant-garde movements of the previous century.

His best known works include large murals where images of different range and scale overlap and are camouflaged; his series of works on paper that recall scientific diagrams and histological outlines; and his objectified paintings, which tend to become confused with the structures that support them, with the rigging of the canvas.

Daniel Verbis has become a fixture on the private gallery circuit and on the institutional art scene. In 1997, his stand-out solo show was at the Drawing Centre in New York. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Burgos Contemporary Art Centre (2004); the Patio Herreriano Museum (Valladolid, 2013); the Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art (León, 2006); and the Sala Amós Salvador (Logroño, 2016).

Beatriz Herráez