Madrid.- Last night, Thursday April 25th, 2013 at 8PM, one of Madrid's leading galleries, Galeria Fernando Pradilla located at the prestigious Salamanca neighborhood, inaugurated the exhibition entitled "Presentismo Preterito" or Presentism Preterite (on view through June 1st) by Spanish artist Alejandro Bombín.
Based in Madrid, Bombín, 28,makes reference in his paintings to the idea of a journalism or news media that is constantly evolving with thousands of news images that are fleeting and transient in our minds.
The exhibition consists of large format paintings and drawings that were mostly made in 2012 in which the artist reflects on the complex properties and appreciation of the images that we constantly see on print using something he calls "screen painting," a technological pictorial process.
In the screen painting process, Bombínrevolves around the study of the multiple possibilities of perception of the image; he begins with scanning the page of a print, a encyclopedia book or a magazine which he uses as a model to start painting on a white canvas a in a meticulously layering process.
This sheet with the corrupted image is cut into horizontal segments or strips that recall the sweeping lines of the scanned images. Side to side and section by section, Bombín completes the composition, in such a way that the immediately preceding section is always hidden or masked with tape and in doing so, he does not see the final work until it is finished.
"Nowadaysyou are exposedtoso manyimagesthat you can not possibly remember whatyou saw yesterday,so it's likeif you had notseen anything, with your image-capture process fading all the time," said Alejandro Bombín.
In his second solo show at the gallery, Bombín is working on a much larger scale in which one can see more corrupted images and his altered movements creating an ethereal moment of the digital medium that is the painting itself.
"It's like documenting the transition that comes from the analogue to the digital to come back to the analogue especially nowadays that we are living in a digitized world where the only analogue forms of expression will be found in art or in furniture," added Bombín.