Benet-Gregg Enrique

Painter, Lawyer, Entrepreneur and Environmentalist.

I believe that art should motivate the viewer to think about the non-obvious, to look beyond the immediate experience that the work causes to the public.
My exploration is precisely the use of obvious scenes including: portrait, still life and landscape. Using these traditional topics as a simple support where I add the non-obvious.
I use the simple form in my painting as a canvas to then focus on the sub-text of the work. Thus, I do not consider the "characters” used as stylized people, for me they are simply forms to which I add drama, color, emotions, atmospheres.
Whenever I face my work I do it thinking about abstraction.
While it is true that my pieces appear to be a stylization of recognizable figures reflected in a style that could be defined as expressionist, I consider them abstract works. I approach the figure of a woman or the shapes that make up a landscape as an empty format in which I develop my abstract, colorful and conceptual work.
Georg Baselitz uses humanoid, upside-down figures in his work, thus he gives value to their form and decreases the importance of the semiotic.
In my work, I do not paint a simple inverted figure, I let the elements keep their s...

Sorbonne (Paris), ITAM (Mexico, DF), Cornell University (USA) & Bellas Artes (Mexico, SMA)