GUILLERMO FORNES

Fornes’s early work at the BilbaoArte Foundation involved a large degree of experimentation with new painting techniques, something he continued to explore after his collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

His works are inscribed with a poetics wherein expressive elements from traditional Eastern painting combine with neo-expressionist gestures, both interpreted from a conceptual aesthetics that reflects on the mechanisms of the language found in the expressive dynamics of contemporary art.

Discursively, his oeuvre—whose vocation is humanistic—reflects on the relationship between history, habitation, and material and spiritual culture as a support for an expanded pictorial subjectivity that aspires to extend the mechanisms of our perception in a world fractured by the extreme specificity of different spheres of knowledge.

In an oeuvre informed by symbolism and synthesis, the gesturality and expressive capacity of blotches contrast with the power of colour. Opposites in dialogue with each other determine the conception of these deep paintings with profound messages, characterised by naturalness and an unpresumptuous poetics without intellectually distancing barriers.

In short, his work lies between antiquity and modernity and manages to convey its expressive and poetic charge through its own transparent, subtle gestural resources. Interested in experimentation and research into new supports and approaches, he carries out experimental work in expanded painting and Landart.

Fornes’s oeuvre has been exhibited in America and Europe, and is represented in major public and private collections, institutions and foundations.

Courtesy rosenfeld, London.