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Nervión

2023

Size

124 x 100 cm
49 x 39.37 in

Year

2023

Medium

Paintings

Reference

3dff7cae

Engraving on 350 gr paper Edition of 30

1966 Bilbao, Spain

Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country. 1991. Painting Specialty.

He left painting in 1993 when creating a 3D Animation company. In 1999 he moved to Barcelona. In 2007 he returned to Art through Drawing and in 2017 he dedicates to Engraving. "To draw, I put as a condition that all the marks made are visible and no correction is made. I apply a system in which a first line prefigures the back line and if an irregularity occurs, it is transmitted on the next line. Similar processes occur in nature so that these a posteriori drawings connect with familiar patterns and shapes such as surfaces, tissues, fluids, orography, waves, etc. The basic idea for drawing is not to represent something but to activate a process. It is akin to automatic drawings that we unconsciously make when talking on the phone. A drawing like a musical improvisation, an automatic writing, a clear traffic for the present without correcting anything. I see the matrix once finished with the size of the drawing already invariable as platonically “out of time”. The idea frozen. Then the stamping processes would be the movement, the dynamic time that crosses the plate with its wealth of life."


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Address

Barcelona,

In January 2016, the Pigment Gallery gallery was born in Barcelona. Pigment is the matter that gives paint its color. Its etymological origin comes from the Latin word pigmentum, which is composed of the verb “pingere” (to paint) and the suffix “-mento” (result). This simple term turned out to be suitable for naming the gallery, since the word evoke...

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