In a very personal style, far removed from the modes of painting of his contemporaries, Juan Fernández Lacomba depicts a bleak, desolate landscape which may remind us of the surrealist spaces of Yves Tanguy (1900-1955): profound, diffuse landscapes in which the horizon is so indistinct that one cannot really tell where the earth ends and the sky begins.
 
Lacomba started out in a figurative expressionist idiom which gradually softened and concentrated on representing landscape. He developed this taste for landscape in Paris, where he moved in the early eighties with a scholarship from the French government.
 
In the mid-eighties he set up his studio in Carmona, in the province of Seville. At that time the central focus of his art was abstract landscapes, with a sensual and expressive visual appeal, always closely related to memory and dreams.
 
This work, Presa, forms a couple with Isla cantera, also in the BBVA Collection and, as noted in the inscription on the back, it was painted in Carmona. The picture, in orange and reddish tones, suggests an encounter along the artist’s journey into the imagination.