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Giclée print on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 gr paper Image size: 21 x 15 cm Total work size: 30 x 21 cm, excluding frame 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. Giorgio Morandi used to say that nothing can become more abstract and more unreal than what we see. And what we see here are intimate scenarios composed of the disposable, the flat and the austere. If there is a clear protagonist here, it is the blackness. On black backgrounds, in the darkness, in the nocturnal silence, everyday anonymous objects come to life, charged with cadence and spirituality. They become still lives, improvised tableaus or anonymous funeral portraits. Bathed in a zurbaranian darkness, the found pieces find their metaphysical root. The waste that is not intended to be seen takes on organic and fetishistic notes through a voyeur’s eye. Out of context, they become set designs, afterimages, finally abstract compositions, blurring the edges between object and form. The ruins are transformed into artificial signs, translated into geometries. Geometries that in their purest form would allude to ideas of order and control, but here they get fragmented, fractured or combined, reflecting the conflict, the uncertainty, the unrest of this moment in time.
2017
Digital on Paper
3
5.9 W x 8.3 H x 0.1 D in
Brown
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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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