Opening 7th October, 2021
Until 12th November, 2021
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.
Pepe Domínguez
"Manufactura" is the second solo exhibition of the Sevillian painter Pepe Domínguez (Alcalá de Guadaira, 1997). Focusing on painting as a medium, his work reflects on the process itself and the tension between the manual/emotional and the technical. He has participated in collective exhibitions such as PLAN RENOVE: the old-new pulses of painting in Seville (2018) or A Flote, Colegio de Arquitectos de Sevilla (2019). She had her first solo exhibition at Espacio Olvera Gallery (2019), and is currently preparing her next exhibition for the INICIARTE production grant (2022).
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