In stone, 2026
Oil on canvas
195 x 195 x 4 cm (76 ¾ x 76 ¾ x 1 ⅝ in)
«We could say that painting lives in a loop, like a crisis. Every so often it reappears, alternating optimism, regression and reflection. And here we are, in an eternal return of permanent desacralization, where painting is claimed before as tradition than as technique, more as thought than as form. Sometimes there is no canvas, no brushes, no pigments. At other times it is not two-dimensional and, at other times, it is not even painting, but an idea where the only unalterable thing is the word.
My visual universe is developed on the basis of a technical-conceptual procedure that I have named “repainting”, which refers to the constant transformation of the canvas and the pictorial surface; either by erasing, superimposing, cutting or repainting. A process that I conceptualize as an allegory to the very cycle of death and rebirth of painting and of the painting as an object capable of perpetuating time.» _Hector Onel Guevara
