For Rubén Guerrero (Utrera, Seville, 1976), painting is not about illustrating a preconceived idea, but rather about setting in motion a process in which the image is constructed and, at the same time, challenged. His work, which is difficult to classify, explores the fundamentals of painting—the surface, two-dimensionality, the limits of the canvas—and unfolds in a constant tension between structure and intuition, between what we see and what the painting might yet become. With a rigorous, though never rigid, language, his work subjects the pictorial space to continuous re-examination and transforms each composition into a field of friction between control, perception and desire.
Having studied Fine Art in Seville, Guerrero has established a solid and distinctive career within the field of contemporary Spanish painting, with close ties to the Luis Adelantado gallery. His work has been exhibited in Spain, Mexico, Miami, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Italy, Puerto Rico, China and Brussels, and forms part of collections such as the Sammlung Friedrichs Collection, the “la Caixa” Foundation, the Sorigué Collection, Banco Sabadell and the Related Group Collection in Miami.
He currently has a solo exhibition at the José Guerrero Centre in Granada and at the Meadows Museum in Dallas.
