Ignacio García Gómez del Valle

‘The logic of supplement’ and ‘Parallel Lives’

As a brief introductory text defines certain conceptual areas so that the spectator can reconstruct that which he sees, so do the elements which frame the landscape. These are supplementary structures which allow us to glimpse the integrity of an internal image. These marginal elements - the text, the frame, the components of the very landscape which structures the vision - defines something extraordinary about the rest, and offers a new definition of these two spaces. That which is included in the piece and that which remains excluded, plays a defining role. This reflection on the construction of the image is offered by Ignacio García Gómez del Valle in his series ‘The logic of supplement’.

‘Parallel Lives' is the project on which the artist is now working. As with ‘The logic of supplement’, the images which form a part of this new project are also diptychs, in which two images with identical frames face each other. The landscape is the same but each picture has a different figure contained within it. The artist offers a reflection about the symmetry that is born of randomness.

Background

Tenerife, Spain, 1978

After completing a Fine Arts degree in Pontevedra (Galicia), he did a PhD in the same faculty, titled 'The city of mirrors', completed in 2005. In 2007 he moved to Barcelona in order to study a MA in ‘Comissioning and cultural practices in art and new media' organised by Ramon Llull University.

In 2006 he put on his first individual show: ‘The logic of supplement' at the Sala Alterarte at Orense University. He has participated in various prizewinning collectives in Galicia. In 2008 he was awarded the Generación 2008 prize, organised by Caja Madrid. He currently combines his artistic activity with commissioning exhibitions.