THE FRAME OF ILLUSION
In the Renaissance,
the painting was defined as -a transparent window through which one looked to a
section of the visible world-. With time, its history evolved, becoming more
sophisticated and even standardized under a measurement system adapted to the
pictorial genres of figure, paysage, marine. Shortly after, the
Industrialization would bring revolutionary formats of illusionism such as the
moving image.
The installation The
Frame of Illusion reflects on both re-presentation systems from the visual
pictorial scene: the picture / window and its equivalent of image / screen.
A symmetric
scenography shows three standard painting (figure, landscape and seascape) confronted to three floating frames that, suspended in the gallery room, work as
mimetic projecting screens that reproduce the pictorial artworks on video. When
looking at them we notice a temporal dimension. Shadows move describing the
path of natural light through the simulated void spaces. This system presents a
dual scenario to the viewer: the contemplative experience of the painting that
requires time next to its “instant” version shown on the virtual experience of
the video projecting screens.
Figure Landscape Seascape refers to the Universal Measurement System for stretcher bars and canvas that made possible the standardization of painting. A formats grid created in the 18th century’s France it is still valid today without barely inquires into its nature. This Series plays with the traditional formats as an a priori conditioning factor of painting as a window by completing a scale of size and color. Each title refers to a pictorial gender & number according to the grid and questions about the container-content relationship as a frame of representation.
The Frame Of Illusion Installation (painting & video). Includes the set of 3 paintings Num: 40 figure paysage marine formats and 3 video-loop simulations projected on equivalent suspended frames | 2018-19 |
Figure Paysage Marine Collection Series on standard formats between Num. 40 to Num. 120 figure paysage marine genders. Mixed media on acrylic and eurepean stretcher bars | 2015-2018|


-This project was made thanks to the FormArte Grants for th Visual Arts
at the College of Spain in Paris, CIUP sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Spain-
at the College of Spain in Paris, CIUP sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Spain-