Luis Adelantado invites you to the first exhibition at the gallery of the French artist < a9> Clarence Guéna at Boiler Room.
Clarence ‘ s work is fed by an imaginary that she modifies in the form of a palimpsest or a new engraving. Through different techniques such as industrial reaming, cross-stitch or painting as a medium that transcends between the classical and the contemporary. His practice is visible as a game between know-how and mechanical and manufacturing execution.
It can be said that these, these paintings are composed of successive layers. The layered effect resulting from this process is imprints and overlays with representations archetypal, revealing in its own subtlety a latent abstraction.
The project on show at Boiler Room relates his work, a hybrid of painting, engraving and superimposed layers, to the gallery space itself, which will become another canvas on which to exhibit his ideas. In fact, two of the walls will be covered with wallpaper that, following the rhetoric of Guéna’s pieces, will reveal their interior through successive layers.
At this point, the multiple layers emerging from the exhibition itself will become unique. Echoing the gesture of the painting, in a dialogue between the ornamental, in contrast to the rawness of the gesture.