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Jesús Meco Castellanos (Quintanar de la Orden. Toledo. Spain 1967)

Figure, Concept and Matter

The timelessness and materiality of the image as the axis of the visual experience determine Meco's artistic production. Timelessness, image, and matter in a work that straddles conceptual art and material art, between a commitment to color and informalism and a constant search for reinvention.

Meco employs techniques that mix traditional art pigments with materials such as sand, fabric, straw, rope, etc., with a predominance of collage and assemblage, and a texture close to bas-relief. He utilizes technical mixtification and the use of heterogeneous materials, often discarded or recycled, mixed with traditional art materials, seeking a new language of artistic expression. He applies his mixture of diverse materials in compositions that acquire the consistency of walls, to which he adds various distinctive elements.

Images that reflect a deep concern for human problems: illness, death, loneliness, pain, and sex. In a tone similar to existentialism, it emphasizes the tragic destiny of man, but also asserts his freedom, the importance of the individual, his capacity for action in life—in short, the free pursuit of knowledge.

Meco's work highlights the nature of transformation, in the most direct sense we attribute to art. He uses all kinds of materials and techniques, with complete freedom and often spontaneously. His painting, and his entire body of work in general, contains a highly poetic element. His research is constant; for example, in recent years, we have seen the appearance of different materials and fabrics primed and manipulated, producing folds and wrinkles, or different levels and spatial planes glued together successively, in many cases using collage, which is incorporated by its strictly pictorial values, a consequence of his dynamic sense of art and, at the same time, his need for realism in a somewhat lyrical way

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