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The new series entitled "Interior Voyage with Landscape", the most recent work of Pablo Genovés to be shown in 2005, maintains the artist's particular creative proposals.
These organic forms, having acquired life beyond any outside control, begin an inverted journey toward the past until they inhabit fake postcards, dated at the beginning of the 20th century, in an attempt to link the future (allusion to the extraterrestrial), the present and the past in their memory pathways. It is exactly at this moment that they are captured in a new photographic snapshot, to be later shown publicly in large, full colour images.
Pablo Genovés' images are characterized by holding, under their shiny appearance, an unusual view of memory; possibly fabricated, without doubt manipulated, a collection of dream fragments and reminiscence, surprises from the artists' unconscious. Celebratory suppers and luxurious, almost delirious ceremonies in a surreal atmosphere create a surprising mystery that urges the viewer to uncover it. Contemplating these images opens the mind to a world in which time melts, as like the painting and photography used in the original technique developed personally by the artist.
Therefore, painting, photography and elements of art history that are re-read using contemporary imaging technology constitute the artists' tools, allowing for this hybrid of techniques, disciplines and transpositions.
.....both procedures, pictorial and photographic, act in these pictures as vehicles for their own historic baggage and culture which resound like an echo from afar in the midst of each piece. On the one hand the painting, which from representing nature has moved on to a preoccupation with itself as a language, a reflection of its own material qualities, both visual and tactile. On the other hand, the photography, which instead of being a procedure for the objective knowledge of an object is more a distorted reflection of this, a fiction which generates an imaginary copy of what is real.
Enric Mira from the text of "Extravios"catalogue.
....faces which are eyes and lips, sexual marks which neither compel nor invite, kisses which sway on the undercurrent of the media.....
Francisco Lopez for "El Mundo"
....carefree images which focus on the face, the smile, the kiss, desire,seduction...
Josina Suarez for "El Pais de las Tentaciones"
....isolated from their original context, rescued from a remote past, the images and their subjects reappear, ambiguous, astray....spectral apparitions, distorted images, moments and faces rescued from the ruins of a hazy past.
Joan Bufill for "La Vanguardia"
....shiny, immaculate photographs which both literally and metaphorically throw back the reflection of our own image and what surrounds it....
J.A.Alvarez Reyes for "Diario 16"
...together the pieces transmit a feeling of unreality, as if these images were really surrounded by the deforming mist of oblivion and distance....
Catalina Serra for "Pais Babelia."
...all that he sees is made up of substitutes, of icons (advertising) and idols (of the masses), of objects which represent other, different objects (such as the record player) or substitutes them (like photography), or supplants them (like the blow-up doll)...
Javier Rubio Nomblot for "ABC Cultural"
......first he deforms and then visually shapes objects which he finds half way between the solid and the liquid state, in a real process of fictitious liquefying which frees the photography from its´ dependence on reality...
Carlota de Alfonso for "El Punto de las Artes"
....his images which join instants captured by the camera, manipulated by the computer and transformed by paint, have the powerful presence of contemporary icons...
Nuria Barrios para "Vogue"
.....they want to talk to us about painted photography or certainly about photographed paintings. Tell us that purity no longer exists, but that everything must be more complicated and move towards the mixing of territories......
Sergio Rubira for "Lapiz"magazine
....in these perspex blocks, behind the smooth and shiny surfaces, like butterflies, are the fragments of a different structure to memory...
Rosa Olivares from the text of "PhotoBolsillo"
I use images that come either from appropriation or taken by me personally. Then I transform them with the computer and mix them with photos of previously painted canvases. Once more I manipulate this symbiosis digitally. The result combination is converted to photographic paper with digital printing.
By gathering all these elements I try to create a convergence of different disciplines, an intersection of mediums. I give them an appearance of painting reproductions, or more precisely, of photographic enlargements of artwork.
I'm interested in creating an atmosphere of 'true' or 'false', I want the viewer to realize a reproduction can be the original work of art.
It fascinates me the intangible space created by the mixture of mediums, and I aim for self-expression in that area of uncertainty that springs from the rooted base. The virtual world opens up and allows me endless possibilities bringing me close to what could be called an artistic sentiment.
It is a 'non-place' where a dialog is established between pictorial elements, as a way of representing reality.
My work generally focuses on the masculine and the feminine worlds with their yearnings for mutual approach: the moment before touch, between seduction and desire with its gestures and demeanors.
Pablo Genovés
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© Pablo Genoves 2008
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