Campano’s love of painting is evident in his unique personal language. In his own words, his master was José Guerrero (1914-1991): “it was he who guided me towards painting. I was coming from other forms of art, from bricolage, things that were not pure painting. His lesson was to channel me towards pure painting”.

After his early experimentation with automatism, in the 1970s he turned to the work of Gerardo Rueda (1926-1996) and Gustavo Torner (1925) as guidelines, a that would offer him a way of ordering his painting both compositionally and chromatically. In 1974 he moved to Paris, where his painting expanded and freed itself from ties, more in step with US . This in turn led him towards larger formats and greater expressiveness and dynamism. In the 1980s he started working on series addressing poetic themes or reinterpretations of works by great painters of the past who he admired, such as Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) and Paul Cézanne (1839-1906).

This watercolour was painted in 1985, the year of the group show held in New York in which Campano took part alongside other artists including José María Sicilia (1954) and Miquel Barceló (1957). The exhibition marked a turning point in his career and led to a sea change in his aesthetic vision.

The piece is a sketchy depiction of an urban view with light lines used to represent a riverbank with houses, trees and a bridge balancing the composition.