“SEARCHING IN NO MAN’S LAND”

BY ARTIST JULIO VAQUERO

Julio Vaquero (Barcelona 1958) has developed his work as a painter around the world of culture, knowledge and his confrontation with the experience of time.

His large-format paintings and installations have been shown in different exhibitions on realism, such as “Realism in Catalonia”, Barcelona 2000; “Mimesis et inventio”, Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, Germany 2002; “Visions of Reality”, Caja Canarias Foundation, Tenerife Spain 2014.

Also in 2014, Vaquero presented his work “The End of Appearances” at the “Centre d’Art Santa Mónica” in Barcelona, a large installation created with solidified paint that confronted the experience of contemplating the past and the horror of time.

His latest personal exhibitions at the Marlborough Gallery in Barcelona and Madrid have shown his drawings on tracing paper in large format, where Vaquero works with materials created by himself, looking back at the history of painting “Stolen Museum” Barcelona 2018 and on the ambiguity of the realistic representation “Memories of the Physical World”; Madrid 2020.

On this occasion, Vaquero presents his latest gouaches in small format on the ambiguity of the idea of identity, creating digitally manipulated faces whose changing and brittle material quality seems to evoke the feeling of fragility of our existence.

PRESENTED BY PIGMENT GALLERY