Paco Pomet: BLUES (AND A LITTLE FLAME)

"I am pleased to be back in Copenhagen for the opening of my third solo show at Galleri Benoni.

In this occasion I wanted to unite the series of works that make up this exhibition under a single character, which can be defined by using the musical term that describes compositions imbued with melancholy and sadness: the Blues.

The perceptual alterations and the problems regarding the representation and interpretation of the landscape that these paintings produce in us refer, in a free and surreal way, to those terrifying changes in the natural environment that we have been witnessing in recent times.

At the end of the show, however, we find a small work that abruptly denies the previous set, breaking with its burning tone the cold harmony imposed on the entire series.

The title, A Little Flame, and its warm tone are guessed, at first glance, as a symbol of hope, but when the gaze travels over the scene where this impossible apparition takes place (a sea of icebergs, possibly in the Arctic or Antarctica) it notices the fatality of attending a sinister representation of global warming and, paradoxically, the painting that can temper and enliven our spirits in the room produces the opposite effect on us and plunges us into an affliction even greater than the blue tone that had previously been dominating the entire journey through the room.

It could be said in conclusion, as a final stanza of this text, that a dance between the cold and the warm plays to exchange its swings between the small realm of the pictorial and the immense (and probably fierce and merciless in the near future) kingdom of nature." (Citat: Paco Pomet)

Kilde:
Galleri Benoni