ESPACIO CERO/ZERO SPACE

Espacio Cero focuses its object of study on what happens in the most immediate and hermetic reality of the place of creation. Carlos Pesudo resorts to the figure of the egg as a metaphor for the isolation in which he places himself in his studio, where he works by listening to the minimum or the most elementary. In such a scenario, the artist asks himself the following question: what happens, or how do things happen, in a place where nothing happens?

For Carlos, the egg is his mental space in his place of work, while the painting is the transcription of this space. It is an element to which he turns not so much for its morphology but as a container of an absence of element, that is to say, for the empty and isolated space that is generated inside it, which he calls -zero space-.

The exhibition presents works in painting and a video-art piece that approach the same concept from different prisms, and despite the distance between these two languages, they share a formal link, since in both an aesthetic of the manual or the formless can be sensed.

“Non-perfection is something that interests me as much in video as in painting. I’m interested in working from the experience of language, even generating an aesthetic of error, of the informal or the manual as a decision and aesthetic resistance”.

For Carlos the painting is both the end and the means, since it deals with the same concept from which it starts and his painting tells us about how the action, the creative process and the construction of the image develop in his workspace. He does not propose a clear and recognisable image but an ambiguous and obtuse image, which poses a duel between information and dis-information.

“I propose the shape of the egg in such a way that it converges with other elements, such as the number 0, the letter O, or the sun, the moon, a seed, a drop of water or simply a line that generates the delimitation of a space. I also use other recurring forms or include text, which is sometimes legible and sometimes not, precisely because I want them to be confused with forms and integrated into the language of abstraction that I propose. I am interested in generating an ambiguity in the signs and in the image through this codification of elements”.

They are pieces that refer to metalanguage and to the creative process itself, in which certain elements, shapes, text, papers or symbols appear repeatedly, building together a cosmos of abstraction. It is a work that is born of the intuition of the process and that mixes the conscious with the unconscious.

“My paintings make use of the crudeness of the support and the imperfect form, they are works that propose an exercise in synthesis, whose composition is recurrently constructed not so much from painting as from absence, and it is this very absence that brings with it a certain attitude towards the practical process and how action and non-action are managed in front of the painting. The work I do is based on the gestural and the spontaneous but also on reflection and pause. I am interested in generating a certain violence and dynamism in the painting, but resorting primarily to very elementary forms or reduced and desaturated chromatic palettes, even to parts that are left unpainted”.

Carlos Pesudo proposes a reflection on the attitude that the painter has towards the work and approaches an image through painting that seems to derive from some ambiguous nature. Where he moulds his own abstract language and generates a repetition of certain elements that do not represent anything certain but rather provide a kind of floating information in a void that fluctuates between the different works, which represent, in short, what happens inside an egg.