Pedro Paricio: Nine Portraits Mapfre Foundation, Canary Islands Pedro Paricio: Nine Portraits Mapfre Foundation, Canary Islands
28 September 2023 - 4 January 2024

Pedro Paricio: Nine Portraits

Mapfre Foundation, Canary Islands
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Pedro Paricio (Tenerife, 1982) - who lives and works between Barcelona and London - showcased Nine Portraits at the Mapfre Foundation in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, from September 28, 2023 to January 4, 2024.

In this new series of paintings, Paricio approaches many of his references - the pictorial tradition, the history and philosophy of art, intertextuality, narratology, cinema, but he uses a different chromatic range and incorporates renewed expressive techniques, in a body of work that the artist himself has defined as "paintings with a pop look but a classic spirit".

Pedro Paricio's work is unique and immediately recognizable. The nine portraits from this collection are territories to be searched: shapes and colours that make up a body, but go beyond the flesh, towards the unsuspected shapes that we have inside if we look at ourselves through a microscope. These portraits, viewed through Paricio’s geometric lens, inhabit a landscape in which countless stories fit, and which the artist seeks to interrogate.

Nine Portraits is Paricio’s fourth solo public exhibition in Spain, after the ICAS in Seville, curated by Juan Manuel Bonet, 2012, TEA in Tenerife, curated by Isidro Hernandez, 2014 and at CAB in Burgos curated by Javier del Campo, 2022.

'It is said that our face is the mirror of the soul, but can our eyelids, our lips, the tension of our cheek muscles really reflect the unfathomable depths of everything we do not know about ourselves? Paricio's Nine Portraits are territories of search: shapes and colours that make up a body but go beyond the flesh, towards the unknown forms we would discover inside us if we looked at ourselves under a microscope, or if the primordial stardust that surrounds us shined. Geometric portraits in which everything is contained: the millions of years of random mixtures and combinations that resulted in a body, a story, a face as deep as a winding cave which can shelter countless stories.'
Noelia Terrón-Laya
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