VMP - Cabeza voladora

VMP (Instagram @molina.pardo) is a Spanish visual artist, a doctor in art and research; his practice combines contemporary figurative painting with experimentation in film and animation. Numerous awards and selections 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 constructed, but they are not used to symbolize psychic states, stories, or messages. They are laws of pictorial functioning, 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 the gesture is recorded on the surface. The codes it configures (repetition of motifs, certain light, a certain rigidity of composition, type of gaze) are rules of visual play, not keys to emotional or narrative interpretation.

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

These paintings on paper are mixed-media works on high-quality paper. The paintings begin as acrylics or simple drawings that are later manipulated with fine-grit sandpaper, apply glaze layers of Liquin with oil, and end up painted in oil to highlight soft tones or simply remove the shine from the acrylic, which on occasions somewhat recalls plastic.

Shipping is done by placing the painting between a DM board, MDF (Medium Density Fibreboard) and a thick transparent acetate sheet that can later be used for framing. The work is protected with bubble wrap and cardboard. The drawings carry a mat up to 50 x 70 cm.