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Spanish artist who grew up in Malaga, although he develops his professional career in Barcelona. He currently resides in Granada. He is an industrial designer and training architect known in Spain for being one of the designers who shaped the change of era and culture that was lived in the nineties.
After being recognized for his career as a communicator, he currently combines the activity of his design studio with new incursions into the art world.
His artistic work is based on geometric abstraction close to pop art and questions the apparent opposition between tradition and digital media. In the creation of his works, he combines the computer with the canvas. Handmade cuddle, on paper; scans, vectorizes and colors with computer, and then executes it by hand on the canvas. The process is documented in social networks.

Architect by Polytechnic University of Catalonia

architect, graphic and industrial designer in rafamateostudio

AV Artist in Residence, at ArtVentures. Saint Helena, California. (2017)
Thomas Keller series. ArtVentures Gallery. Menlo Park, California (2018)

My encounter with art comes from my own evolution as a designer and architect. My intentions as a freelance designer always had an artistic authorship and a free way of understanding design. There were several moments in which I had the intention of combining my professional work with artistic practice, and it was in 2015 after finishing my degree as an architect when I decided to transfer all my experience to painting in a continuous way. With the certainty that this way should be based on my origin and my experience as a designer and architect and not so much in the tradition of fine arts to use. For that reason perhaps, I define myself in the networks as a precision painter.

The topics I work with are variable. My way of understanding design has always been eclectic and that I think carries over to my work as an artist. Sometimes the starting point is in a real object that I synthesize in an abstract way. Other times I impose on myself some organic, geometric or conceptual discourse that I make it evolve in my process through different series. Regarding the theory, I start from a formalist vision of art as it was understood in the 20th century, although with a revised treatment adapted to the new digital media.

The discourse of my work revolves around a review of abstraction. I start from geometric abstraction, but also from pop art. I relate the digital with the analog and the organic. I usually start with a small manual drawing that I then digitize and decide on shape and color with digital media. Once the work has been decided in that first phase, I proceed to paint by hand and on an easel (the latter is also a declaration of intent). The digitized drawing is faithfully transferred with traditional precision drawing tools onto the canvas, then proceeding to fill in the colored areas in a relaxed and methodical way.

I believe that painting, as plastic art in a pure sense, must develop exclusively in the universe of formal composition and color, and to a lesser extent in other universes such as symbolic, narrative or social more typical of other arts.

geometric art, neoformalism, pop art, spain, conceptual, organic, manual drawing, digital media