Description of the work

The work Paris is by the artist Gregorio Iglesias. Made with mixed media on canvas. It has dimensions of 162 x 162 cm.

GREGORY CHURCHES MAY
He trained in Lleida, and soon made his work known in Paris where he succeeded with the work Com a gos mullat.

Gregorio, always committed to painting, has been defined by some critics as existentialist or neo-expressionist. And tied to a bittersweet feeling that produces the need to paint or feel part of the painting.

Thus, his work cannot be separated from his experiences, as he is an intrinsically emotional artist. Who is interested in the constant experience, news and emotions that give you their travels and their day to day.

WORK
His works are almost always marked by his own sensations, which he shapes with a firm stroke of his brush in his work. His technique is markedly gestural and moves between figuration and abstraction.
Each series of works leads the viewer to feel a whole accumulation of different and universal sensations and feelings.

One of his last major projects is the creation of a monumental canvas of 400 square meters, which is exhibited in the turbine room of the former war machine factory in Peenemünde.

In this place the prototypes of Hitler's war machinery were designed and manufactured. At the expense of the forced labor of thousands of prisoners in extreme conditions, slaves. Today, Peenemünde is a museum of history that wants to serve the culture of world peace.

Gregorio Iglesias Mayo, with this work wanted to rewrite the cruel past according to his words: "print the story that transmitted to me the objects that I was finding"

THE VINEYARD OF ARTISTS
Already in 2013 this artist painted in the middle of the path of La Vinya dels Artistes the work "Between Heaven and Earth". An impressive mural 60 meters and 5 and a half meters wide created daily for almost two months outdoors painting night and day. Under inclement weather, also subject to the interactions of field work and terrain reliefs. The result is a titanic work, completely linked to the territory of Les Garrigues, with strong dreamlike notes and great personal symbolism.

Other series are: the dogs, the landscapes of Les Garrigues, the interior of the Paris metros that evokes a tunnel of life, the bookshops. His particular language always refers to the great masters to whom he always pays homage.

For more information on the work Paris at the Espai Cavallers gallery.