Pintura prefabricada

Abstract

I grew up in a metal manufacturing factory, where the day unfolds among machines, pipes, blueprints, and precision; there I saw a certain sensuality in the design that makes the viewer approach the objects: color, shape, material, technique, men in the construction of real processes for real needs. When I had to choose among the careers to study, the path seemed quite clear, however, despite the interest in mastering the materials, the human factor was always present. I thought about the way employees go about fulfilling their duties and, although for everyone it was a means of survival, I needed something more. As Santiago Cárdenas well explains: 'that philosophical problem about what reality is, whether we exist, how we are, I thought that painting could at least help to feel that sensation of being alive.' Thus, the condition given by an environment and the need to understand problems of individual thought became different resources to bring me closer to painting. Two situations that in the initial stage of this writing are presented in parallel (condition - motivation) and that during the development of the process converge. The work presented as a project is framed within a pictorial practice, where reticular images that I capture in urban routes are articulated with paintings by artists from the Western tradition; in this way, the aim is to provoke reflections on painting as abstraction, its modes of construction, and to explore the notion of invention in art.