Video: Paintings-photographs from Paco Pomet: redrawing the past
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Spanish artist Paco Pomet uses old archival photographs as canvases, introducing fantastic or absurd elements into them, changing scales, painting additional participants or painting over existing ones - and thus commenting on the inherent tendency of human memory to forget and distort the events of past years.
Some of the author's interventions in the original plot of the photograph look just funny, others have a rather important meaning. But the most important thing is that the works of the Spanish artist do not leave the audience indifferent and indifferent, forcing them to take a closer look at the photograph and understand what actually happened from this story, and what is only invented, exaggerated, unsaid, distorted, forgotten … And how, looking at The work of Paco Pomet is not to think about this: how much truth is there in those stories about the past that have come down to our days, and could it be that most of them are simply "drawn" by the storytellers?
Paco Pomet was born in Granada (Spain). The author studied fine arts at the University of Granada (Granada), the Academia de España (Rome) and the School of Visual Arts (New York). The artist has repeatedly presented his work at various national and international exhibitions and more than once became the owner of awards in the field of art.
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