Within the framework of ARTEMADRID opening, Aranapoveda Galeria announces the second solo show of Pablo Avendaño (San Sebastian, 1971) for September.
Avendaño’s painting sometimes adopts movie-making strategies, so pieces turn out to be “staged” scenes, a sort of fast pictures or sketches of shooting sets. The instants represented in Plot series look like photograms taken out of their temporal sequence, thus falling far from a naturalist and testimonial painting to create fictions and choosing an art that essentially is artifice.
The series invites to reflect on the condition of narrative through the painting, since the truncated story delivered by the artist is, at the same time, the premonition of something that is going to occur. It’s all about intense painting that forces spectators to complete the suggested “plot”. Many of the pieces propose two images that are somehow linked, though the nexus is never explicit. The titles, which come out of literature, support the “construction” of stories.
Avendaño lives and works in Brussels. His work has been recently exhibited at institutions such as the Fondation Roi Baudouin (Brussels), galleries Libre Cours (Brussels), Pierre Berge (Brussels), Galerie Xavier Hufkens (Brussels) and Meyer le Bihan (Paris), as part of personal and collective exhibitions. Although most of his production is pictorial, he has also showcased photography projects (series Lignes de fuite, Homo Ludens and Natura Naturata) and interventions in public spaces, such as the one carried out at Parc Malou within ANIMA project.
Plot series is exhibited at Aranapoveda September 20 – December 19, 2012.
ARANAPOVEDA Galeria
C/ Lope de Vega, 22 28014 Madrid
Source: Press release
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