193 Gallery is delighted to participate in a new edition of Art Paris Art Fair with a solo presentation by artist Rafael Domenech. Simultaneously, Domenech will present a solo exhibition in our Paris gallery from April 1st to May 31st. Both the Art Paris presentation and the gallery exhibition are curated by Jérôme Sans.
The project includes a group of new works that activate the hidden potentials in the traditional book form by unfolding it as multi-media painting-like structures. The “book-paintings,” as Domenech refers to them, bring together an archive of photographs taken intermittently in and around urban settings since 2017 with varied surplus materials that include commercial vinyl, paper, tyvek, and plywood in a layering process that tracks the city’s urban dynamics and material flows. Closed, the “book-paintings” are containers for the many possibilities to set off a complex distribution of information and a play of forms and colors. Open, they are complex and vibrant structures that open new possibilities for painting in the age of standardization and data overloads.
