Víctor Pimstein exhibits his recent paintings at Barcelona’s Galería Joan Prats
Víctor Pimstein
River and woods, 2008-2009
From the 18th of June to the 26th of September at Barcelonas Galería Joan Prats
Víctor Pimstein, a Mexico native living in Barcelona, turns his oils on canvas and wood into highly personal inquiries resulting from a meticulous observation of his environment and of the dialogue he engages in with himself based on this observation and in the quest for meaning.
In this show, which is called “The World was Somewhere Else”, he exhibits his most recent paintings. Some of them are re-creations, while others are mere inventions in which he approaches the objects in his studio from a highly particular vision that exudes sensitivity and contemporariness. Pimstein tends to focus his attention on details, fragments, particular aspects of his images, which are abstract and decontextualised and go beyond the boundaries of any direct physical experience.
The colours of the pieces that will be on display at the Galería Joan Prats starting on the 18th of June are intentionally blurred to spark the viewers imagination as to what they portray or to situate the enigma they display in a crucial place within contemplative subjectivity, as an instrument that fosters dialogue between public and painting. With regard to this exhibition, Pimstein himself has stated that the works chosen speak to us about his way of imagining the world in his youth, in a stage in which what he could see around himself left much to be desired and where he trusted in the existence of an unknown paradise that later ended up not being as wonderful as he had imagined. He also alludes to the radical transformation in the world of images entailed by the emergence of the digital, and in parallel the transformation in the world of the imagination. Before Internet became yet another domestic part of our everyday lives, images were sensed by viewers in another way, they promised other worlds, and Pimsteins oeuvre refers to the end of that era.
Born in Mexico City in 1962, this artist studied literature and architecture and has displayed his works in both individual and collective exhibitions in Canada, the United States, London and Spain.
Víctor Pimstein
Highland, 2007
