Vangar presents Cabeza de río, the first solo exhibition by Víctor González, which will be open to the public from February 14 to April 30, 2025. The artist has recently been selected as a finalist for the prestigious BMW Painting Prize 2024.

Víctor González (Jerez de la Frontera, 1996) explores the codes of pictorial representation from an intuitive and emotional perspective, reinterpreting cultural elements from his environment. Architectures, ornaments, and everyday objects become key pieces of a visual language that reveals landscapes and biogeometric atmospheres. His compositions actively engage the viewer, constructing images that oscillate between the tangible and the dreamlike.

In his exhibition Cabeza de río, Víctor González establishes a dialogue between the various stages of his creative process, unraveling the narrative and emotional potential of painting. The artist captures different constructive and conceptual phases that recur throughout the development of his works, contrasting pieces of diverse nature, such as large-format paintings, collages, and works with treatments bordering on the sculptural. The exhibition opens with the piece Limbo, which serves as a gateway to understanding the entire exhibition. This work, through its internal structure and spatial arrangement, invites the viewer to take a step inward, connecting with the main theme: painting as a flow of thought.

The artist’s practice transcends traditional painting, approaching pictorial language through alternative techniques and materials. This experimental approach seeks to expose painting’s internal language, blending figuration and abstraction in a dialogue that provokes and challenges the limits of the medium. His works propose assembled spaces that explore the relationship between form, color, and sensation, blurring the boundaries between the real and the imagined.

Trained in Fine Arts at the University of Seville, Víctor has developed his career in Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom. He has recently been selected as a finalist for the 2024 BMW Painting Prize, and his work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Royal Academy in London and the Unicaja Foundation Centre in Seville. His work has been recognized with grants and awards such as the VIII UNIA Painting Competition of the International University of Andalusia, the Honourable Mention of the I Prize for Artistic Creation of the CICUS and the Provincial Council of Seville, and the artistic residency at the Antonio Gala Foundation. He has also been selected for the XIV Meeting of New Artists of the Xunta de Galicia and the Cidade da Cultura Foundation.

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