Manuel Gamonal

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 val...

B.A. in Fine Art, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, (1999-2004).
PhD. Courses: Painting and Visual Discourse. Department of Painting, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, (2004-08).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2020 “Naturalezas de ficción” (“Natures of Fiction”). Curated by Kasia Nagórska. Espai Nivi Collblanc. Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània. Valencia (*)
2017 “The First Ending” Curated by Kasia Nagórska. Collblanc Espai d'Art. Culla (Castellón) (*)
2010 “Kurtz: Para hacernos ver” (“Kurtz: To Make Us See”). Curated by Ricard Silvestre. Centre of Documentation of Contemporary Valencian Art. University of Valencia. Puçol (Valencia) (*)
2007 “Cleaning”. Galería Kessler-Battaglia. Valencia
2005 “Realidad, sueño y deseo” (“Reality, Dream and Desire”). Galería Akka. Valencia
2001 “Fragmentos de espacios (“Fragments of Space”). El Molí Cultural Center. Benetùsser (Valencia)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2020 JustMad. Contemporary Art Fair. Espai Nivi Collblanc. Madrid (*).
2019 “Soroll de Fons” (“Background Noise”). La Grey. Tarragona (*)
2018 “Paisajes discontinuos. Miradas diversas” (“Discontinuous Landscapes. Diverse Gazes”). Curated by Irene Ballester Buigues. Rogelio Salmona Cultural Center. University of Caldas. Manizales. Colombia (*)
SCULTO18. International Contemporary Sculpture Art Fair. Collblanc Espai d’Art. Logroño (*)
2017 16th Miquel Viladrich Contemporary Painting Award. Torrelameu,...