PORTRAITS
PORTRAITS
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Meeting. Acrylic on Canvas 130x130cm
This painting depict the board of directors and group executive board of an european producer of sanitaryware. The portraits are taken from an internal leaflet I took at a company meeting where I was one of their waiters, hired by their caterers, through a temporary staff agency.
This painting depict the board of directors and group executive board of an european producer of sanitaryware. The portraits are taken from an internal leaflet I took at a company meeting where I was one of their waiters, hired by their caterers, through a temporary staff agency.
Being that one of the reasons I distanced myself from the 'sitters'. I rearanged the portraits in a symmetric hierarchic order. Showing on the top their boss, that although he takes center stage, because of his demeanor, appears more distant and smaller than his subordinates.
Being that one of the reasons I distanced myself from the 'sitters'. I rearanged the portraits in a symmetric hierarchic order. Showing on the top their boss, that although he takes center stage, because of his demeanor, appears more distant and smaller than his subordinates.
324 workers (324 Acrylic on Board Portraits) Instalation 240x500cm aprox.
This are real workers portrayed in and for their place of work. I reorganized the portraits in the shape of the plant of the building they work in. I wanted to show more than one level of identity in their portraits. Similar to a portrait in front of a landcape or an indoor space can show belonging, in here inspired by minimalism structures and architecture, I use the simple shape of their building to portray their corporate identity.
Yearbook, 2007, Acrylic on canvas, 114x146cm
This tipycal pop-american image of a yearbook allows me to show the evasive identity of the individual in a group image, when also you have a relation with space of belonging in this case the school.
Employees of the month, 2007. Acrylic on canvas, 130x195cm
All portraits found in one google search for the term 'employee of the month' organized by the order of the seach results, with empty spaces as an open ongoing practice.
CORPORATE PORTRAITS
CORPORATE PORTRAITS
Corporate Models. 35 x Acrylic on canvas, 25x20cm
At first glance these paintings look like portraits of different business people, but in fact the portraits are based on various image banks and catalogs of corporate photography, in wich models/actors were the subjects of the portrait.
The catalogue of poses, attitudes and gestures indicate authority and power in different, typical, cliché ways. As well as the palete of greys and blues relate to corporate enviroments.
The way they are portrayed, as a simple outline like make-up, is intended as to define only the superficial part of the subjects, what really represent them, creating a series of phantom portraits that show more the corporate identity than the personality of them.
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