Diego Martínez︎My work is defined by the aesthetic
parameters of today’s photographic technologies. Nowadays, massive and
immediate access to multiple high quality photographic tools juxtaposes with
the eye of an amateur user. The social mass is thereby the main producer of
images, and uses broad public platforms for diffusion: the result is then the
over-exposure/ over-embellishment of (practically)
all aspects of everyday life. My painting series reproduce the modus operandi
of that actual gaze. The critical operation is activated in the moment of the
selection of the model; in the visual
transfer from the surface of the screen (television, cinematographic, digital,
photographic) to the surface of the canvas. Therefore, the painting process causes a
tension point because it takes back this actual image –which is quick,
superficial and abundant by nature– to the slow dimension of traditional manual
work, in order to suggest new lectures about the many cultural valorization
systems of the image, and its respective symbolic functions.