This is a work of high artistic quality by an artist who uses a highly personal painterly idiom, full of very recognisable references, to reflect on the world around us. He is a masterly inventor of buildings and architectural spaces, whose paintings are characterised by refined technique and by transmitting a certain feeling of unease which invites the viewer to meditate on them.

Ángel Orcajo, who started from an almost magical realism, belongs to that generation of painters who responded to the crisis of Informalismo by opting for a figurative alternative generally inspired by British . The urban landscape becomes the thematic basis of his work: big cities, which take on a bleak, disturbing atmosphere in his pictures. It is a space with a certain metaphysical character in which geometry and unease are superbly administered.

In the eighties, his chromatically intense and spatially complex compositions—an explosion of forms and colours—became more markedly and obviously dynamic. The presence of skyscrapers, an ostentatiously deployed symbol of rationality, does not express an idealisation of this form of architecture but rather the inability of the individual to escape technological functionalism.

Imagen permanente, quite similar to Escenario último (1987), another work in the BBVA Collection, is representative of the metaphysical spirit in Orcajo’s painting which enables him to give vent to the frictions arising between the city and the human being, whom he excludes from his compositions. He captures a world of constant motion solely through the use of an architectural space.