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Untitled (Half of What You See)
Original title: Sin título (La mitad de lo que ves)
2016
Oil on canvas 
Dimensions: 250 x 200 cm
Reference: ACF1004
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Rubén Guerrero belongs to a generation of artists who are exploring new paths for the future of painting, transforming it into a radically contemporary discipline. His compositions, in which geometric shapes take centre stage, start from small pseudo-architectural objects he himself manufactures. Each painting follows a complex analysis of the resulting image; the objects, systematically forced to adapt to the picture plane, are seen from the full front and create a trompe-l'oeil effect. As we see in this work, Guerrero's paintings reveal a paradox between figurative abstraction and abstract figuration, as the artist seems to be trying to steer our attention in two opposite and tangential directions — on the one hand, inspired by the principles of illusionistic painting; on the other, by speculations on abstraction.

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