Painter, sculptor and architect.
Spanish artist born in Barcelona in 1968 and living in Malaga, graduated in
architecture at the University of Navarre.
The question is not whether to paint or not to paint.
The question is whether to paint with or without paint.
"'Painting without painting' is the paradoxical synthesis of a work in which cardboard
and abandoned books become the main raw material.
As an artist, Pedro Zamora applies to painting, which traditionally
belongs to the art of posing, the art of removing, typical of sculpture. This approach
characteristic of Pedro Zamora may have its roots in his other vocation,
architecture, a discipline that draws on both arts. His work can be defined
as the approach of a kind of radical contemplative ascetic.
His desire to make painting without painting, almost without art (and almost without
painter); to create a work in which he "paints nothing", without it happening
almost notice; to confront what no one wants; to make art
almost without doing it... all this makes him almost immune to the fear of
the artist that his work does not remain, because he starts from the principle that it is almost
nothing, that it was made without "ulterior intentions" and that ultimately, one cannot destroy
than what has been built, that is why the art which is most alive is that which does not
can be killed because he makes himself dead."
Manuel Fontán del Junco, Director of Exhibitions of the Juan March Foundation.
Alongside this eremitic period of 'painting without painting', Pedro Zamora
has also been exploring 'painted painting' for several years. A painting in which he
believes again in the gesture, in his gesture, as he had once believed in that of
anyone – because he incorporated into his compositions “scribbles” that he
found, provided that they were anonymous. Believe in his pulse,
accept it... that's all. Believe in the trembling of his hand like the trace
significant of someone, of one of us.