The Arranz-Bravo Foundation inaugurates "Muy Buenas" by Gorka Piñol

The Arranz-Bravo Foundation of l'Hospitalet presents, from February 18 to May 11, 2023, the first institutional exhibition of the painter Gorka Piñol (Barcelona, 1987). Artist resident in the Entresol Primera space of the Freixas de l'Hospitalet building, Piñol is an artist who expresses himself, in an obsessive and structured way, through pictorial practice.

His painting is an attempt to control the entropic chaos natural to the experience of living through plots and repetitions, achieving a constructivist and kinetic plastic image that is both regulated and anarchic, ordered and dynamic. Beneath the formal appearance of his pictorial work hides a playful and uncomplicated artist, who wants to connect his forms with the hurried, fluid and synthetic world that characterizes our contemporary culture.

Based on this structured and playful look, the exhibition proposes a selection of works from the last ten years: from the time when he started in abstract and speculative reflection through plots and repetitions, to the last pictorial works, which are complemented by some three-dimensional work made from synthetic waste left over from his artistic practice.

According to the architect Marta Llorente, author of the text Entre l'ordre i el caos: Una new calligraphy , "The plot, the fabric and the warp of these already finished canvases consists of a system that Gorka has been inventing for years , perfects, allowing its transformation, as if it were a path with no return, its own path. In reality, no two paintings are the same. The plot of each work also cannot be discovered in a first inspection: it is not geometric, since it escapes the law of exact measurement and escapes constancy and repetition.”

Gorka Piñol Tabernero (Barcelona, 1987) has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, he has completed a master's degree in artistic production and research at the same university. His career highlights the individual exhibition at Alejandro Gallery in 2014, and his selection as a finalist artist in the Francesc Gimeno de Tortosa, Art Emergent de Sabadell and the Ricard Camí Prizes.