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Enamel and asphalt paint on canvas on board

Exhibition history:
2017. Manuel Gamonal "El primer final / The first ending". Curator: Kasia Nagórska. Collblanc Espai d'Art. Castellón, Spain

Manuel Gamonal’s work puts to the test the notions of the monumental and intimate space, of gravity and lightness, order and chaos. Drawing from a formal territory already developed in previous projects, he manipulates the matter, configuring and reconfiguring the forms in a very personal language based on line, repetition and serialization. A formal and conceptual consequence of trends in conceptual, minimal or post-povera art, it employs materials of purely industrial origin, such as asphalt and enamel, investigates the relationship between the sign and the ruin, seeks parallels between the abstract form and the real compositions of a human landscape, abstracting geometric elements from an everyday environment. If there is a clear protagonist here, it is the blackness, in all its shades: from the warmth of an organic black, the opacity of the asphalt, to the metallic coldness.
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Manuel Gamonal

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Painting, Enamel on Canvas

Size: 13.8 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in

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Enamel and asphalt paint on canvas on board Exhibition history: 2017. Manuel Gamonal "El primer final / The first ending". Curator: Kasia Nagórska. Collblanc Espai d'Art. Castellón, Spain Manuel Gamonal’s work puts to the test the notions of the monumental and intimate space, of gravity and lightness, order and chaos. Drawing from a formal territory already developed in previous projects, he manipulates the matter, configuring and reconfiguring the forms in a very personal language based on line, repetition and serialization. A formal and conceptual consequence of trends in conceptual, minimal or post-povera art, it employs materials of purely industrial origin, such as asphalt and enamel, investigates the relationship between the sign and the ruin, seeks parallels between the abstract form and the real compositions of a human landscape, abstracting geometric elements from an everyday environment. If there is a clear protagonist here, it is the blackness, in all its shades: from the warmth of an organic black, the opacity of the asphalt, to the metallic coldness.

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Enamel on Canvas

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13.8 W x 23.6 H x 0.8 D in

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Born in Albacete (Spain), 1968. Over the last few years I have been developing an artistic project whose main medium is painting and drawing, and which analyzes the idea of abstraction, trascending its purely formal meaning and is elevating it to a conceptual level, its genesis being the idea that every form is provided meaning. Both allow me to experiment with the ambiguity and combination of form-sign and text-form, building formal and syntactic contents which create a still multiplied and focused image where the viewer reads and decides its duration and level of analysis. I use strategies such as observing images of diverse nature and origin, and rereading social and artistic discourses in different genres. They allow me to analyze the society from mixed and multidisciplinary points of view, and to question how we build our idea of reality. I am interested in investigating the phenomena of subculture, politics and contemporary art, especially regarding the rise of generational movements claiming social change, or phenomena of postcolonialism and control. With all this in mind, I intend to reopen questions about past events and statements that have been left meaningless, trivialized and absorbed by the society, and make as valid as possible again. Rather than to say something, my work aims to connect with someone, to stay alert and remain vigilant, to be aware of the environment not in order to change it, but to at least raise awareness of it. In short, my work since conceptually addresses the apparent contradiction, the double meanings , the conflict, fragmentation and discontinuity. It questions the speed of contemporary social and artistic events, and vindicates the eternal present of painting, so often destroyed. Formally: matter, shape, time and frozen process The structures insert themselves into the text as meanders, the stratification, serialization, accumulation and automatic drawing flood the compositions (structures), which open the way to a more plastic and sensory reading. Texts like voice-overs create a space for action and memory. A coupling or "assembly" of shape and text pursues a clear aesthetic objective, at the same time critical with the watchful eye. Time is crucial for observation and reading, something demanding for instant happiness of the present and the rapid visual consumption. This worries me, therefore I talk about it.

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