Good afternoon and good morning wherever you are in the Art world!

The Art talk are delighted to welcome Edward Gallagher founder of the leading gallery Galloire in #Dubai and Spanish artist Paco Pomet who will guide us through their current group exhibition “Signals”: “Exploring the impact of our rapidly changing modern world through an historical and nostalgic lens…By the time we reach adulthood, are our decisions and our thinking even our own or are the synapses and signals firing inside our minds wholly conditioned?”

Do join us to share your ideas!

GALLOIRE: "The gallery collaborates with leading contemporary artists from around the world who, regardless of medium, push boundaries of culture, thought and explore our digitally-dominant society. With eclectic range, we exhibit artists whose roots stem from urban art to classically-trained painting, from the world viewed through the lens to the data that surrounds us. The gallery is also characterised by a strong interest in how visual arts work in conjunction with other forms such as poetry, philosophy and science."

SIGNALS: See the installation and show summary online at https://lnkd.in/e36i3-JZShort show description: Galloire presents a group of celebrated international artists, from different continents and from different generations, but who are impacted by the same modern world of branding, commerciality and mass media. From our earliest moments of childhood to our dying day, we are bombarded by corporations which try to grab our attention, characters which vie for our affection and voices all around which tell us how we should live our lives… “

The figurative paintings of the Spanish artist Paco Pomet (b. 1970) transform mostly anonymous graphic sources into examinations of history, memory, and the absurd. Elements of subversion, at times subtle, then flagrant, imbue his compositions – usually monochromatic landscapes and portraits – leaving the viewer both intrigued by their accuracy and technical mastery, yet puzzled by their iconology.

Paco Pomet : A native of Granada, Pomet is a mid-career artist with an international reach, a prolific artistic output, and one who is commanding increasing scholarly attention for his already impressive oeuvre. Charged with denotative and connotative meaning, his work pleases the eye while provoking the mind, making sometimes surprising statements. As the artist, he is the first cause, the one who transforms his concerns into an image, allowing the viewer to deductively and inductively translate that effect.

Pomet’s work is embedded in the contemporary visual culture of intensive production of images yet also goes against the current, vindicating the use of the imagination to challenge the commonly obsolete perception of reality. In his paintings, the artist distorts the meaning of the image he reproduces through different ways: by integrating an element – often humorous – that is out of context within the subject that is depicted; by deforming characteristics or physical extremities of the beings he portrays; by playing with scale; or by using bright, almost unreal, colors. The result is a hilarious if not shocking or mysterious composition that invites the viewer to search for meaning, a playful proposition that reflects Pomet’s ultimate interest in “nourishing an active naiveté for looking at everything anew,” far from conventions…