Marc Gonz - Smell like spirit

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 upon layer; in this burial process, a face is formed, part of the disorder and of the error, to find 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, vibrant work, sometimes grotesque and primitive, but at the same time it expresses deep emotions that remind us of the ancestral, 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 on the path to the deepest part of the unconscious. The artist himself makes his own paintings, achieving a impasto technique in which the density of the painting is recreated, shaping large pictorial masses that overflow. The volume of the brushstrokes makes the works almost sculptural, creating microcosms that take on their own identity when we approach.

Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona.

He has exhibited:

Estampa. Madrid

Galería Uxval Gochez. Barcelona

Art in Nuvola. Rome.

Art Madrid, Madrid.

Just LX Art Fair. Lisbon.

Galería Saachi London, London.

Galería Fold, London.

Galería Ferran Cano. Barcelona.

Galería Nuno Sacramento, Ílhavo, Portugal.

Galería Villa del Arte. 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
Access to the Certamen D'Arts Plastiques. Valencia.

Awards:
X Certamen de la UNED. Madrid

Bienal de la Muestra de Arte Contemporáneo Catalán. Barcelona.