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Installation at the "Natures of fiction" exhibition, 2020

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Manuel Gamonal

Spain

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Giclée print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper EXHIBITIONS: 2020. “Natures of fiction”, curated by Kasia Nagórska. Espai Nivi Collblanc. Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània. Valencia, Spain The “Natures of fiction” project is born from the expression and reconstruction of apparently wild, virgin, hostile natures, recreated and fictionalized in civilized states, domesticated for human enjoyment. Concerned with the nature of manipulated and deconstructed images, Manuel Gamonal looks beyond the natural and the fragile to reimagine the garden in a world of altered political, technological, and environmental circumstances. Through designs and colors, geometric and ornamental shapes, he establishes links between natural spaces and lived architectures. Originating from his discovery of Łazienki Park, the largest public garden in Warsaw, he explores the iconographic relationships between the natural environment and the constructed space. There is an illusion in Gamonal's natures. What the photographs convey is not his experience. It is nobody's experience because what we see does not exist in the realm of reality. The landscape dematerializes, the images are subtly transformed and mutated, repositioned, suggesting multiple points of view. The outdoor natural environment faces the interior cultural space, reinterpreting itself in fictionalized natures, evoking history and the passage of time. The garden includes and mediates between two possibilities, here and there, reality and potential, while distorting perspective. The image liquefies, becomes malleable, recomposed by light and its intuitive movements. The brushstrokes gesturally fragment the photograph, turning it into an expressive painting, varying from clarity to blur. The garden in some moments can be identified while others have become abstract compositions, barely recognizable. "Fictional Natures" has an alien quality. Simulacrum, simulation, representation. The real, the unreal, the imaginary. Kasia Nagórska

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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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