Francisco Gimon

Francisco Gimon work examines the relationship between a thing and its essence, between what we see and what an image implies. The sense of precarious balance that can be found in his recent paintings thus reveals how utopia and dystopia can coexist within the same image.
Gimon delves into the territory of phenomenology and reviews issues related to perception that have fascinated philosophers and art historians, and that have also captured the attention of artists. In his recent paintings, Gimon juxtaposes painting with fragments of urban and natural landscapes.

In an effort to shed light on the formal and conceptual dynamics through which Gimon approaches his phenomenological research, by shedding the history of every element reproduced in an environment devoid of identity, Francisco Gimon paintings highlight the crisis of a point from a humanistic point of view, as they illustrate the fractured relationship between an individual and their cultural context. The relationship that an individual has with a place is made up of visits and memories that are stratified in time, resulting in a sense of belonging. As soon as a landscape delivers its history to a context that is capable of receiving all things, an individual may lose c...