Robert Llimós, the Spanish painter who had an encounter with extraterrestrials and who now portrays them

It is always said that life is an instant. A person can go from having everything to having nothing in seconds, or vice versa. To the famous artist Robert Limos (80)a subnormal experience changed his life forever.

Robert was a renowned Spanish painter who had participated in exhibitions in New York, Miami, Milan, among other notable sites. The man received the National Award for Plastic Arts from the Generalitat of Catalonia and created a sculpture for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

But a trip to South America completely changed her life, man had contact with aliens and this was a turning point in his life: “I had a UFO in front of me. It didn’t make any noise and a little light scanned me,” the man told the newspaper. abc.

After this event, Robert began photographing the beings he saw that afternoon and even made a documentary called Art and UFOs (2016) telling all about his experience.

a successful life

Robert Llimós was born on October 19, 1943 in Barcelona, Spain. In his youth he studied at the Massana School and the San Jorge School of Fine Arts. Robert was passionate about art and formed a team with Eduard Arranz Bravo, Rafael Bartolozzi and Gerard Sala, with whom he became known in an exhibition in 1964.

At the age of 26 he separated from the group and decided to deepen conceptual art, within which he created some actions such as “Llimós” in 1972. Between 1975 and 1983 Robert lived in New York, and between 1987 and 1988 in Miami.

In the early 1990s, Robert was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts of the Generalitat de Catalunya and created the sculpture Marc for the Olympic Games in Atlanta, one of his most famous works, dedicated to his son who died the year last.

Robert’s paintings, up until then, tended to focus on the human figure, in a very unique and expressionist style. Everything was fine, Robert had success and recognition, but he was about to reach a turning point in his life.

On the beach of Fortaleza

In 2009 Robert Llimós traveled to a friend’s wedding in Brazil. One afternoon, the man was walking through the dunes of Fortaleza beach, he started drawing and let himself be carried away by the landscape.

Suddenly something extraordinary happened: “I had in front of me a UFO surrounded by a clearing fog. It made no noise. Colored lines were projected onto the ship’s deck. A small light peered at me. Behind it was a couple, a man and a woman,” the artist told the ABC newspaper.

Robert said it he was kidnapped for 2 and a half hours by these beings, but who only observed him, adding: “They chose me. They wanted me to see them to make them known to the world, to communicate their existence. But the CIA and NASA don’t want it known and hide it. Not even the Church is good, just imagine”. the man said to the Spanish medium.

Following this meeting and the painful death of his son, Robert’s life changes radically. He abandoned the kind of art that had given him prestige and began to portray beings from another planet that he saw on the Brazilian beach.

Works dedicated to his sight

As Llimós recounts in the documentary about his sighting, “Art and UFOs (2016)”, the change in artistic trajectory led him to be rejected by both the art market and the cultural world. Despite this, the artist continues to paint what has marked him so deeply.

Robert, since his episode, has begun to portray the UFOs he saw that afternoon. The regular buyers of his works didn’t understand anything, they turned their backs on him. The man He went 7 years without selling a workbut it has not ceased its efforts to publicize its extraterrestrials.

“Nobody understands me. Luckily in Italy they listened to me and I was lucky enough to exhibit in Rome. This exhibition which arrives in Barcelona was possible thanks to the Pastificio Cerrer Foundation and to Nando and Elsa Peretti”, commented Robert.

Robert has a goal to make the world go round with his alien artwork and says he has to show off his work and that authorities around the world are aware that “other beings” exist.

Hard to think that Robert’s works could go around the world, the largest canvas of all, a gigantic view of the ship has a value of 26,000 euros. The painter was abandoned by everyone. When Martian landscapes appeared in his paintings, no one ever bought anything from him again.

Today Robert Llimós does not give up and intends to change the world with his works. He continues in search of that leap, of that work that will give him all the recognition he knew how to have in the 90s. The truth is that after that subnormal experience he has never been the same, not even his paintings.