Gallery 5. Art New York 2018. Available.

Painting as a Vision

Contemporary Art

By Victor Varela

Painting as a vision intends a dematerialization of painting itself by an intentional 

setback of perception that problematizes the experience of seeing. 

What painting sees, as much as what it allows to be seen, comprises the 

minimum unit of the image as its maximum consequence.  

On one side, the stain as a floating signifier, the cut of colour with its chromatic 

texture, the extreme tension between order and chaos, the corrosion and 

misunderstandings in Art History, and on the other, the very limit consequence 

induced by figuration, the maximalism of the sequence of shots, the cinema 

screen as a screen of life.

But the vision is always above the eye, fencing the eye in and resignifying it, 

vision is informal and not conceptual. 

This painting, halfway between the outburst and the drawing, is defrosted to 

propose a visual and thermal shock, a biological notice that is equal to its aura 

and function.