VMP - El man rosa sobre la mesa con cosas

VMP (Instagram @molina.pardo) is a Spanish visual artist, with a PhD in art and research, whose practice combines contemporary figurative painting with experimentation in film and animation. He has received numerous awards and selections that attest to a consolidated and recognized artistic career.

This original piece, created in 2026, is a figurative study in which an internal system of codes is built, but they are not used to symbolize psychological states, stories, or messages. They are laws of pictorial operation, not keys to allegorical reading. The painting is not organized to “say something” beyond itself, but to show how a figure is sustained, how color closes a space, how gesture is registered on the surface. The codes it configures (repetition of motifs, a certain light, a certain compositional rigidity, type of gaze) are rules of visual play, not keys to emotional or narrative interpretation.

It is proposed that the viewer confronts the painting as an object with its own internal laws, rather than searching behind it for a confession, a trauma, or a personal story. It is not denied that the viewer may read metaphors, but the practice is rejected as being permeated by the obligation to produce them. The interest does not lie in encoding a hidden world, but in explicitly organizing the visible world.

These paintings on paper are mixed-media works on Fabriano paper with a high cotton content. They begin as acrylics or simple drawings that are later manipulated with fine-grit sandpaper, glazed with Liquin oil and touch up with oil paint to highlight soft tones or simply remove the gloss of the acrylic, which at times somewhat resembles plastic.

The shipment is made by placing the painting between a board and a thick transparent acetate sheet that can later serve for framing. It is assembled in a 50 x 70 cm matting; it can be shipped with the matting. The work is protected with bubble wrap and cardboard.