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“…winks like something Gabriel García Márquez might
have wanted on an LP cover had he joined the rock group Blind Faith”
THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE (UK)
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“Moved by the traditional, but also drawn to the contemporary,
Carles Gomila harmonizes both with a dash of technical agility”
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST MAGAZINE (USA, CANADA & UK)
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‘THE SIRENS CALL’
Carles Gomila seeks to paint works that are tender and yet disturbing, evocative full bodied and elegant. He loves painting the human figure based on the real human anatomy plus his own imagination and feels free to represent the human figure and redeem the values of classical art from a contemporary perspective.
Gomila was born in Ciutadella de Menorca in 1978. The glowing Mediterranean light of the island suffuses each of his works. Gomila’s magical surrealism places him at the forefront of living European surrealists. At the moment he makes paintings and drawings of compositions of figures, as much of the natural world as from his imagination, working with great variety of subjects, from the smallest to the monumental.
In addition to the author painting, he dedicates a part of his work to how the paintings are prepared. For more than four years he has been intensely dedicated to the experimentation and study of old techniques of oil painting, acquiring a habitual practice that is not often seen in our days: he prepares the supports of the canvasses in an old world style, using only the best pigments, oils, balsams, resins and other raw materials. Gomila has been dedicating to historic authenticity in material and techniques in his work, prepares his own oil paints and supports in a totally artisan form even and all the used materials are of superb quality and guaranteed to survive well into history. Thus, the works receive greater depth of color, wealth of shades and an excellent conservation.
Trained in Fine Arts, the artist admires the classic artists, such as Ingres, and the Roman and Greek paintings, as much to escape from fashions as to reach the essence of a pictorical practice to which he has dedicated himself professionaly since teh age of 21. A coherent attitude that has led to the study of the Renaissance, neoclassicism, and romanticism, to make his own home-made pigments, and to know to be creatively contemporary though a skilful combination of figurative languages and aesthetics full of symbolism and cultural references.
A command of drawing is seen as one of the first steps that the artist uses in the construction of his large formats, made from superimposed layers that define a certain tendency to the ‘horror vacui’. His imagination is ordered by searches for interpretation, borders and signatures that each viewer must be capable of grasping, as much for the plastic and intellectual references as contemporary.
This is an imagination that is considered magical by his national and international gallery owners. Human figures, especially female, in contexts related to the theatre, the cinema, the engravings from the Victorian age of the traditional, exotic Japanese, with which the artist seeks to play, between the impact and the force of the cultural references. For this, his canons of beauty are something more than figures that awaken feeling and libido in us. In these, we sense the aura of the classics by their timelessness, unclassificable aesthetics and nearby presence. A language capable of incorporating pop-art form and aesthetics beside leaves of gold, of virtuosity with the paintbrush, oils, acrylics, collage, impressions, stencills of his own making…
An uninhibited imagination and the search for beauty captivate the viewer’s vision by the direct, tender, disturbing looks. A newly-created language of his own, an avantgarde work.
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He works for art galleries in USA, UK, France & Spain.
† S.I. Fine Arts represents his work in USA (exclusive)
† S.I. Art Group represents his work in Europe
† Fine Grime represents his work in UK
