Manufactura
Solo show by Pepe Domínguez
Manufactura
Solo show by Pepe Domínguez
7 October - 12 November 2021
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Pepe Domínguez
With this project I try to reflect on the pictorial surface as an element that enables and conditions the theme. Taking the production process as the main axis of investigation, the tension between the theme and its formal resolution articulates and directs the conceptual search that is constructed as I go along. I try to resolve with my work the contrast between individuality - which is expressed in the manual, the emotional, the failure - and an exteriority related to the coldness of the automatic/mechanical represented through industrial aesthetic forms. I represent from the eclectic a state of mind (dispensing with a narrative logic) that is nourished by sensations and memories translated into the pictorial in a synaesthetic way. In the paintings, the surface functions as an equidistant point between one's own mood and the environment, being a porous space capable of registering rhythm and time through the different decisions taken throughout the process. I advance through the correction and superimposition of layers in the search for a pictorial ideal, which sometimes leads to an almost total simplification of the image where the concrete and the abstract coexist.