We understand the world through small details, fragments and gestures that give meaning to a whole. Our existence can only be understood through our perception or interpretation of the everyday. The detail of those elements that without a context are incomprehensible, but at the same time are the soul of our own reality. Nature, a gesture, the branch of a tree, simple and common objects... all these details make up our existence and are part of our everyday life.
For Estampa 2022, we wanted to focus on artists who, with their gaze, give new meaning to the everyday. The artist/observer who, by means of different visual operations, propose a new, fresh and different view of the everyday. We want to invite the public to look again at what routine has somehow made invisible.
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JAVIER DE JUAN
Jaen, 1958 Possessing a very personal and recognisable voice and a splendid mastery of drawing and colour, Javier de Juan became one of the most present and active artists in the field of drawing and painting in the eighties. He began his artistic career as a painter and illustrator, at that time very much imbricated in the assumptions of the so-called New Spanish Figuration, made up of a series of very diverse artists, but at the same time with some common features - fundamentally a high figurative, colourist and narrative temperature.
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LOLA GUERRERA
Córdoba, 1982Trained as a photographer, Lola Guerrera began her career constructing images that only existed to be photographed, pieces with a very strong ephemeral component that seek a connection with uncertainty. Thus arise large pieces made with tiny scraps of matter, thus connecting the minimum with the maximum and highlighting the immensity of the cosmos in front of our own fragility.
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RODRIGO ZAMORA
Santiago de Chile, 1970Made up of paintings, drawings and sculptures as a body of work, my artistic practice is highly committed to actions such as walking, observing and collecting.
I am engaged on presenting images as narratives of my own experience related to public spaces or transit places either from contemplation, or in function to propose an imagery as a poetic metaphor of the way one can perceive and appropriate landscape in general as well as partially.
