Urban palimpsest No. 2. Painting

This painting is a tangible manifestation of the exploration of collective and individual memory. It is created from the (projection and tracing) of photographs of inscriptions, incisions or "vandalic" carvings on walls, trees, statues, public toilets and other elements of tourist and historical spaces in the city of Barcelona, such as the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia, the Botanical Garden and several museums. The creative process includes the capture of digital photographs, detailed tracing using vector software, enlargement and projection of the image and, finally, a manual tracing on the canvas. All these stages are performed on patchwork textile scraps, which evoke memories of my personal life. The work seeks to create a symbiosis between the personal and the collective, based on the premise that individual memory is collective, since our memories are intertwined with people, spaces and objects that make up a shared universe. At the same time, this painting is inscribed in the tradition of appropriationism, taking as a reference the work "Still Life No. 35". (1963) by Tom Wesselmann, in which he used the process of appropriating, projecting, tracing and reinterpreting. Finally, my intention is to show objects extracted from reality and experiment with them new forms of abstraction, thus creating a decontextualization of banal elements of everyday life, typical of the so-called "low culture", to transmute them and elevate them to the category of a work of art. This work will be sent stretched and stapled on a wooden frame (inside a safe wooden box). With the information of the technical data sheet and signed on the back. And attached the Certificate of Authenticity.