Baptiste Laurent - Campo de Batalla

Collaborative painting: Baptiste Laurent/Léo Faber/Paco Peña.

Conversations and Punches / 2023 Text by Javier Guijarro Fayard, curator of the exhibition. "Conversations and Punches" is a bet on painting as a laboratory-style project for three artists who previously shared the Latolier studio (in Madrid's Usera district, amid artistic ferment in recent years). Founded by Baptiste Laurent, it has become a creative hub. Laurent has enjoyed this format. It is a performance-like action in which the relationship among the three artists generates dynamics that drive the works forward and create new challenges. We will see a mix of topics as diverse as a battlefield, Greek horses, a fight inspired by Goya, a swing in a colorful field, large butcher knives over blue Portuguese tiles, a fish on a plate with two large arms emerging from the void, or a pink canopy in the middle of a field with a mysterious nude woman floating face down in the sky.