VÍCTOR GONZÁLEZ
CÁDIZ (SPAIN), 1996
The works of Víctor González are presented as portals of access to an auratic space of chromatic gradations that transcends the immediacy of the everyday and that could be astrological as well as microscopic.
His soft geometries are situated between the abstract and the referential and in them coexist the intuitive and spontaneous with the analytical; the subconscious and the processual with the unravelling of the systems and codes of colour, form and perspective that operate in the language of painting. Gonzalez embraces the discipline of the craft, executes the processes with processes and explores the mysteries of the pictorial plane and its metaphysical qualities, which have to do both with the material and the both with the material and the poetic. His paintings insinuate architectural spaces - or details of them - that could well belong to could well belong to the public square or to the seclusion of the contemplative life of cells or sacred spaces of Templar dimensions.
Without being a believer or participating in the precepts of any creed, Gonzalez embraces the influence that the symbols and archetypes of the Catholic religion that conditioned his childhood and explores with curiosity the links between the tangible and the intangible and the totemic qualities of art; although in the end, as he states, it is ultimately, as he states, it is the painting that imposes its will and surpasses any interpretation of what he has seen.