Guillermo Pfaff

Guillermo Pfaff’s utilitarian approach and modest materials, while unquestionably his own, recall that of Carl Andre or Mario Merz, who found and formed poetry out of otherwise banal objects. Pfaff’s own assemblage of painterly materials, wherein the image and its parts are interchangeable, performs a sacrifice of the banal while creating a window into something profound. Whether that thing is the space within, upon or around the work itself, it’s perfectly clear that indeed nothing is hidden.

In 1999 Pfaff finished his studies and exhibited for the first time in a commercial art gallery. Although at the time he worked with different media, painting became his most recurrent language. The decision to focus on painting involved a certain degree of self-criticism—the artist conceptualized the pictorial process in search of an approach to it that would suit his circumstances. He has exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions throughout Spain since 1999, including such venues as Hionas Gallery, New York, Galeria Trama, Barcelona, JiM Contemporani, Barcelona, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid, Piramidón, Barcelona, and Palau de Casavells, Girona, among others. 

Courtesy of Hionas Gallery