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Fernando Gómez Balbontín

Li | 2009-2010

Chile

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Painting

Unrecognizable structures next to recognizable forms; satellite images that seem to take distance from what is real although they certainly express an unknown reality; images that seen from an perspective away from the specific knowledge seem to have only an aesthetic aim. However, what emerges is nothing but the spontaneous result of the accurate exploitation of a mineral.

Intense colours emerge from deep northern Chile and its hidden nature; geometric shapes that contrast with the organic morphology of the Atacama Salt Flat (immersed in the vastness of the driest desert in the world) and that are a true reflection of human intervention. Exploding bombs that cause chaos and electric cars that link lithium with friendly uses of the environment, are also some of the elements involved in this vision, allowing us to understand the message that makes the series meaningful and that begins with the following thought: “Chile has the largest lithium reserves in the world, how shall we use them?”


text by Fernando Gómez Balbontín

Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Salar del Carmen | 2009 | acrylic and charcoal on canvas | 35 x 130 cm
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
SCL | 2009 | acrylic and charcoal on canvas | 35 x 130 cm
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
MOP | 2009 | acrylic and charcoal on canvas | 35 x 130 cm
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Iphone | 2009 | mixed media on canvas | 130 x 200 cm
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Electric car | 2009 | mixed media on canvas | 130 x 200 cm
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Hydrogen bomb | 2010 | mixed media on canvas | 130 x 200 cm
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Mood stabilizer | 2010 | acrylic and graphite on canvas | 130 x 200 cm
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Untitled | 2010 | acrylic on canvas | 65 x 250 cm
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Untitled | 2010 | mixed media on canvas | 65 x 65 cm
Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Li
Untitled | 2010 | acrylic on canvas | 65 x 65 cm

biography

Fernando Gómez Balbontín

Fernando Gómez Balbontín

Born in 1981, Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in Santiago, Chile

My work emerges from the necessity to create a visual language based on the critical representation of contextual realities. The purpose is to build a shape as a con-secuence of the content, and the result of it is nothing but the register of a thoughtful process. I am currently interested in an in-depth study on how our society lives. This excercise is done through analysing the view that society itself has about the existence of death.

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Artist's galleries

Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Everything exists 2019

Gallery image: Burning night | 2018 | acrylic and oil on canvas | 130 x 130 cm

Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Naked human

Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Naked human

Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Thoughts about life and death

Fernando Gómez Balbontín: Thoughts about life and death
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