Flavio Galvan Email & Phone Number

United States

Flavio Galvan is an Argentine artist currently residing in Florida. During the past 27 years he has created a solid body of work employing classical techniques (oil, ink, pencils, etc..) and also experimenting with other forms of expression. ​Flavio has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in South America and United States. Some of his paintings are in major collections in Argentina.​Flavio's paintings are mainly figurative. From the beginning of his career, his work has been consumed with the obsessive search for detail, the diffusion of light, and movement all of which has led him to develop at times dynamic scenes with figures flying in space and others are seen in extreme close up. ​The vibrant palette of his early years, full of primary colors in contrast, has slowly turned during Flavio's career to his presently employing an exquisite and subtle gamut of tonalities that remind us of ancient oriental art.

I find in the new characters that inhabit today’s urban scene a certain dignity, elegance in their movements, in the manner they use the space they occupy, and a certain beauty in the sound of their words and in their garb.Not only have they created a new iconography, but also a sophisticated style with which they put together a marvelous mise en scène.There is something fresh and energizing in them as well as an enigma. Are they a legion of angelic beings dressed eclectically and haphazardly? Are they pointing to a new road to follow?I have painted series of portraits imbued by the magnetism that emanates from these street strollers. In the pictorial aspect, I describe them with sobriety and with an economy of resources, with classic backgrounds and sometimes monochromatic ones. I allow to emerge the inner being of each character that resides in that subtle world of contrasting forms that I perceive in each one of these characters.