Pedro Paricio, Master Painters

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Halcyon Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of new paintings by Canarian painter Pedro Paricio (b. 1982 Tenerife). In the series of works featured in this exhibition, titled Pedro Paricio: Master Painters, Paricio makes reference to particular paintings and characteristics of the work of several great artists including Velasquez, Caravaggio, Modigliani, Bacon and Hopper. Paricio cleverly adapts and borrows the iconic imagery of these artists and fuses it with his own visual language of masks and harlequin colours, introducing layers of meaning, and playing with the identity of subject and artist.