Paco Dalmau (Vila-real, Spain, 1978) is a visual artist, based in Rotterdam since 2012. Educated at Sanvicens Fine Arts School in Barcelona and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, his current work focuses on the Evolution series, an ongoing project that explores the hybridization between painting and sculpture, creating wall-based pieces. Each work in the series reflects a process of formation—of memory, emotion, and inherited experience.

Throughout his career, Dalmau has consistently pushed painting toward new formats and spatial relationships. In the early series Polyptychs, he combined realist and expressionist portraits with installation-based arrangements, investigating ideas of identity and familial connection. With Fractions, he moved away from figuration, exploring monochrome surfaces, minimalist rhythm, and the relationship between painting, light, and the exhibition space—an approach that shaped his early years in Rotterdam. This evolution extended into the White Wall Project, a series of large-scale, site-specific works that brought painting into the public realm, using installation and social participation to generate shared experience and community presence.

Returning to the studio, Return series marked a more introspective phase, with compositions centered on atmosphere, contemplation, and emotional layering. The series acts as a bridge, grounding his transition toward the visual and conceptual maturity found in Evolution, the body of work that has since defined his current practice.

The Evolution series by Paco Dalmau builds upon a legacy in which painting becomes a space for introspection, transformation, and the articulation of the self. This approach connects with the Abstract Expressionists—artists like Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, or Jackson Pollock—who treated painting as a medium for existential reflection, where gesture and matter embodied interior life. For Dalmau, this serves as a foundation rather than a model. While his work shares their introspective sensibility, it focuses more specifically on the layered and mutable nature of identity over time.