Pablo Siquier

Siquier's paintings are formed from a neo-Baroque sensibility to reveal the ambiguity and semantic dissemination of contemporary artistic and cultural practices. His work, with strong formal attributes, rebuffs the rigour of order and reason to visualise a world defined by different interactions and diverse points of reference.

Siquier's early work from the second half of the Eighties reflects the opposition between the figurative and the abstract, a penchant for details and the artifice, the interplay between figure and ground, between order and formal precision, and the use of vibrant colours. His paintings later employ a more austere palette to reflect exclusively geometric forms, inspired by architectural motifs. From 1993 onwards, he drastically renounces colour and embarks on a series of black and white paintings, whilst also eradicating references to architectural ornaments in favour of more complex and articulated compositions. The paintings are pure and precise abstractions, with the interaction between light and shade exacerbated, transforming into a purely graphic surface where the organisation of space dismantles all rationality.

In his most recent work, Siquier leaves behind the canvas to work directly on the walls of galleries and museums; drawings and installations that operate with the illusion and real perception of space. Via computer generated drawings transferred onto gigantic printed surfaces, these installations appear to erase the borders between painting and the real world.