The “Gallera”
All my work is a poetic weft that questions the formal limits of the pictorial and its relation with the space that it inhabits. Support, surface and space in continuous review.
The traditional genres of art have been diluted in unlimited forms of expression, including painting, which overcomes the traditional limits of the support and which, in its expansion, also appropriates the three-dimensional space while encompassing other techniques and disciplines.
From this new perspective, we will not talk about "painting", we will talk about “the pictorial”, an expression that groups more creative possibilities.
In 2008, I made a pictorial installation in a singular espace, La Gallera.
La Gallera is a building built in 1870 that housed cockfights. It has a beautiful geometric plant with twelve sides and two heights, currently rehabilitated as an exhibition hall.The architecture of the space conditions the exhibition and forces us to create a work exclusively for the space.
The work created for the exhibition " Baste the space " was the result of the use of three-dimensional space as a pictorial support. Work plays with space and is part of it. The viewer can go through the painting and enter it. The architecture of the place allows to observe the work from the first floor and at the same time walk around it. In this walk we can have many different points of view.
The work demands a different attitude from the viewer, understanding the spectator as activator of the work's senses.On the floor there is a vinyl that we can step on, the vinyl is an image of a collage. I wanted to introduce in this work the image of the painting, not the painting physically. The image accentuate the idea of hybridization.The structure is iron lacquered in yellow and refers to the old iron swings where I used to play when I was a child.
