Description
The works by Alejandro Bombín are a tribute to painting, its material consistency and pure colour, which regains the image and its romantic
significance.
Bombín’s painting research is a reflection on the archaeology of images that are part of a personal and at the same time shared imaginary. He works on documents with alterations that manifest the passage of time and investigates abandoned images (photos from albums, postcards, obsolete scientific books) creating a kind of a bridge between digital and mental errors, giving the viewer the chance to lose himself in deformations and colours.
With Romance, Bombín creates a dialogue between fiction and affective relationship, taking inspiration from Pop art and new figuration. The symbolic dimension of the ‘romance’ refers both to the ideological inertia of traditions and to the power of the reproductive technology of the contemporary images. These works seem to take up the idea of rhyme, rupture and alliteration from literary texts to give them a concrete visualisation.
The artworks contain glitches, the generation of errors in digital reproduction. The glitch, usually defined as a discrepancy between prediction and result, allows us to observe the breaking of the code as the cipher language of a communication channel. This type of error, in this case, presents itself as an interruption in the automatic reproduction of predetermined patterns and models.
