Vertical, 2021

Acrylic on birch wood

250 x 62 cm

Galleria Continua San Gimignano

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Walking near my Madrid studio, crossing a building under construction, I found one of the iron structures used as bases to place metal tubes for signage and boundary fences that characterize these spaces The openings and suggestive form of these bases, with their particular geometries, led me to imagine upright forms, which connect with the idea of a vertical city, of very tall buildings, also of monolithic and totemic forms of a distant and futuristic culture. As a result, the paintings and sculptures that have emerged from this exercise of urban associations and encounters, delve into the idea of architecture and the traditional objet trouvé. I like to think that these works could be equated to a theme with musical variations, as they constantly introduce chromatic or geometric differences faithful to a common goal.

View of the series at Galleria Continua San Gimignano, 2021

Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio