Marc Gonz - Cake boy

Marc Gonz

resistance.

In front of one of his paintings, we don’t look at an image. We face an inner landscape — a tactile memory we didn’t know we carried within us.

The way Marc Gonz works consists of burying layer after layer; in this burying process, a face is formed, part of the disorder and the error to find a harmony. Marc Gonz’s works, through matter and color, present us with a distorted version of reality. The brutality and density of the brushstroke reveal a visceral work, at times vibrant, grotesque and primitive, but at the same time it expresses deep emotions, which recall the ancestral and the spiritual, going to the essence without artifices, an excavation of the soul. With a mix of abstraction and expressionism, they create a transformation of the human form, where its meaning is transcended. All of this gives us an idea of his complexity and leads us along the path to the deepest parts of the unconscious. The artist himself makes his own paintings, achieving an impasto technique in which the density of the painting is recreated by shaping large, overflowing masses of paint. The volume of the brushstrokes makes the works almost sculptural, creating microcosms that take on their own identity as we approach.

Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona.

Exhibitions:

Estampa. Madrid
Galería Uxval Gochez. Barcelona
Art in Nuvola. Rome
Art Madrid, Madrid
Feria de Arte Just LX. Lisbon
Saatchi Gallery London, London
Fold Gallery, London
Ferran Cano Gallery. Barcelona
Nuno Sacramento Gallery. Ílhavo, Portugal
Villa del Arte Gallery. Barcelona
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona
Palau de la Música. Valencia
Affordable Art Fair. Amsterdam
Art Montpellier. Montpellier
Espai Jaume Muxart. Barcelona
Atelier Richelieu. Paris
Louvre Carrousel. Paris
Acceso al Certamen D'Arts Plastiques. Valencia

Awards:
X Edition of the UNED Competition. Madrid
Biennial of the Catalan Contemporary Art Show. Barcelona.