An Other Day

Characterized by a language of reduced forms and shapes defined by solid fields of color, the work of Antonio Ballester Moreno explores the human relationship with the image and the roots of pictorial representation at large. Making the conceptualization of schematic images, a graphic structure that portrays our conceptual categorization and perceptual constancies of the world, the point of departure of his work, Ballester Moreno examines the nature of human perception and the way we understand and construct, through images, the world we live in.

An Other Day is part of a series of paintings, for which a strong emphasis on the subject of horizontality is characteristic. Despite the actual verticality of the work, the theme of horizontality here reflects in its subject, horizontal lines crossing the painting from both sides, and the system of display, where despite its undyeable autonomy, the work is part of a greater universe (of other works). Working with universal and permanent forms, such as spheres, lines, or horizontal color fields, Antonio Ballester Moreno appropriates graphic structures that portray our conceptual categorization and perceptual constancies of the world. The use of patterns becomes for Ballester Moreno a way of opposing the contemporary notions of speed and the legacy of modernity. Time is depicted from a biological perspective characteristic for evolution, may this evolution be a biological one or an intellectual one, such as the evolution of forms, characteristic for its slowness and opposition towards post-industrial modes of life. Painted on untreated, raw jute with layers of liquid paint, a process reminiscent of dyeing clothes, the porous nature of the canvas, rich texture, and strong material presence appropriates the basic from the cycle of life, taking us back to the once familiar, to the universal, to what we all share.