BERNI PUIG

Puig's desire to experiment with the medium led him to gradually abandon thewall and the two-dimensional plane. Thus, in Plein Air (2021), he employs thetechnique of anaformism, using the optical effect to deform the image so thatit must be viewed from a specific angle and perspective, giving it a sculpturaldimension.

In recent years, the artist has chosen to combine outdoor and studio work in arenewed desire to catalogue the involuntary memory recorded by architectureand ruin, this time using the strappo technique. Traditionally associated withthe extraction of Romanesque frescoes, Puig updates this method when heapplies it to the removal of the domestic paint and graffiti that cover the wallsof factories and abandoned houses in the textile colonies of the Llobregat riverbasin.

Shunning representation to construct a particular system of signs, the artist'swork reorders and rescues the most intimate and precarious aspects ofpainting, offering a space for human inconstancy.

Text courtesy Alzueta Gallery.