Paco Pomet "Classicism", 2021, Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm.
Paco Pomet "Eclipse", 2018, Oil on canvas, 200 x 270 cm.
Paco Pomet "Fake", 2020, Oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm.
Paco Pomet "Hesperides", 2020, Oil on canvas, 130 x 170 cm.
Paco Pomet "Llagas", 2018, Oil on canvas, 130 x 170 cm.
Paco Pomet "Middle Age Crisis", 2021, Oil, acrylic and ink marker on canvas, 60x 81 cm.
Paco Pomet "The Art of Scaling", 2020, Oil on canvas, 130 x 150 cm.
Paco Pomet "The Visitor", 2016, Oil on canvas, 120 x 140 cm.
Paco Pomet "Little Big Grief", 2020, Oil on canvas, 130 x 170 cm.
Paco Pomet "Beginnings", Installation view, 2021
Paco Pomet
Born in 1970, Granada, Spain
Lives and works in Granada, Spain
MELANCHOLIA
Richard Heller Gallery is proud to present "Melancholia," the gallery’s fourth solo exhibition with Granada, Spain-based artist, Paco Pomet.
Paco Pomet writes: "Since my childhood, the observation of different states of light in certain landscapes has been the trigger, and in many cases the condition, which fostered an intense aesthetic experience. Generally associated with dusk, at twilight, although often embodied in the vertical and oppressive light of the summer midday, this intense experience before the light and the landscape could provoke fear and anguish on some occasions or, on the contrary, an overwhelming enthusiasm. The difference between a painful experience or an enthusiastic one rested in a certain whim of the spirit that I have not always been able to control.
In the majority of occasions this experience was translated into a joy, a reverential communion before the ecstatic beauty of the spectacular unfolding of the world. A celebration of ‘being in the world,’ a commemoration of ‘the figure and the landscape.’ But, in others, this experience was tinged with hurt before the immensity of the world along with the consciousness of lightness, smallness and finitude of one’s self-existence. In these cases, the landscape revealed itself as a sinister scenario where the changes of light were filled with threatening intentions, showing the disturbing vastness of the space as well as the awareness of the inevitable passage of time."
In this series of paintings, gathered under the title "Melancholia," the semantic intentions of Pomet have, in this case, a marked course. Although Pomet admits that “the melancholic feeling constitutes a strictly personal and non-transferable experience,” the works gathered in this exhibition treasure the aspiration (“chimerical, in any case,” the artist admits) of provoking in the spectator that sensation of fear before the abyss that the German romantics called The Sublime, that nostalgia the Portuguese and Brazilians call Saudade, and that feeling that in ancient and pre-modern medicine they called Melancholia.
About the artist:
Pomet received a Fine Arts Degree from the University of Granada, Spain, in 1993 and graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2004. Pomet’s works are in the permanent collections of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Madrid, Spain; Spanish Academy, Rome, Italy; Santander Museum of Fine Arts, Spain; IVAM (Valencia Institute of Modern Art), Spain; and Colecciōn Solo, Madrid, Spain.
New work by Paco Pomet will be exhibited at Richard Heller Gallery's booth, 345, at Expo Chicago, 2018.
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2004 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1993 Fine Arts Degree, University of Granada, Spain
1992 Erasmus Exchange program, Loughborough College of Art & Design, UK
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2021
Beginnings, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CARecent paintings, Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
The Last Lights, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, SpainNo Places, Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Melancholia, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2017
Un Breve fulgor/A Brief Glare. My Name´s Lolita Art Gallery. Madrid, Spain2016
Paco Pomet: Recent Paintings, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2015/2016
Paco Pomet, The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Florida2014
Scapelands, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CARecent Work, My Names´s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
One More Try, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Shipwrecks, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DenmarkBreve Manual de Antropología, My Names´s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Contra la Inercia, Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain
2011
Horns and Tales, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2010
Montaigne´s Nightmare, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NYMy name´s Lolita Art, Madrid, Spain
2009
Muralla Bizantina, Cartagena, Spain2007
Huracanes de plastic, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Valencia, SpainNew Paintings, Sala siglo XXI, Diputación de Huelva, Spain
2006
Un nuevo desorden, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain2005
Sandunga Art Gallery, Granada, SpainG-Train, Sala Rivadavia, Diputación Provincial de Cádiz, Spain
2002
Sandunga Art Gallery, Granada, Spain2001
Ficciones Mínimas, Diputación Provincial de Jaén, SpainFundación Josep Niebla, Casavells, Girona, Spain
2000
A+A Gallery, Venecia, Italy1999
Mediterránea, Centro de Arte Contemporánea, Granada, SpainRetratos, Centro de Lenguas Modernas, University of Granada, Spain
1998
Ciudad Cero, Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Diputación Provincial de Granada, Spain1994
Arquitectónica, Ánima Gallery, Sevilla, Spain -
2020
Drawing Room Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.Me: An exhibition of contemporary self-portraiture, High Line Nine, New York, NY
2019
ESTAMPA Contemporary Art Fair, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, SpainENTER Art Fair, Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen, Denmark
URVANITY Art Fair, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2018
New Work: Paintings. Robischon Gallery, Denver, COESTAMPA Contemporary Art Fair, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery booth, Madrid, Spain
EXPO CHICAGO Art Fair, Richard Heller Gallery booth, Chicago, IL
DRAWING ROMM Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Contemporary Art Collection. Cadiz Museum. Spain
2017
Entonaciones, SC Gallery, Bilbao, SpainContemporary Art Collection., Cadiz Museum, Spain
ESTAMPA Contemporary Art Fair, My Name´s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
EXPO CHICAGO, Richard Heller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Under Winter Moon, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
JUSTMAD Art Fair. Galería My Name’s Lolita Art, Madrid, Spain
2016
Juxtapoz x Superflat exhibition, co-curated by Takashi Murakami and Juxtapoz's Editor, Evan Pricco, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2016/2017)EXPO CHICAGO, Richard Heller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Juxtapoz x Superflat exhibition, co-curated by Takashi Murakami and Juxtapoz's Editor, Evan Pricco, Pivot Art & Culture Center, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
226 Puntos, My Name´s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2015
EXPO CHICAGO, Richard Heller Gallery, Chicago, ILSumma Art Fair, Galería My Name´s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Dismaland, Bemusement Park, curated by Banksy, Weston-super-Mare, UK
Arte Santander 15, My name´s Lolita Art Gallery booth, Santander, Spain
Behold! The Blob, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Horizonte de sucesos, Álvaro Alcázar Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Pulse New York, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, New York, NY
2014
EXPO CHICAGO, Richard Heller Gallery, Chicago, ILSumma Art Fair, My Name´s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Pulse New York, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, New York, NY
Paisaje de encargo, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2013
The Christmas Show, Bendixen Contemporary, Copenhagen, DenmarkIRREVERSIBLE Magazine: 8 Years Anniversary, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL
Tinta Plana, Christian M. Walter Silkscreen Studio, Casa Molino Ángel Ganivet, Granada, Spain
In Case We Don´t Die, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
JUSTMAD Art Fair, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2012
The Armory Show, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NYMiami Project, Richard Heller Gallery, Miami, FL
Art Platform, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Justmad Art Fair, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011
Group Show, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DenmarkThe Armory Show, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Justmad Art Fair, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2010
Donaciones, IVAM (Valencia Institute of Modern Art), Valencia, SpainFourth Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB), Beijing, China
La imagen y el animal, Palacio Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain
Justmad Art Fair, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
OFF, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid. Spain
2009
Lisbon Art Fair, PortugalOur Beginnings Never Know Our Ends, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
SCOPE New York’09, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Scope Basel’08, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Basel, SwitzerlandScope New York’08, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, New York, NY
Biennale Arts Le Havre, France
OFF, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2007
Art Brussels’07, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, BelgiumARCO’07, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Arte Santander´07, My Name´s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2006
ARCO’06, My Name’s Lolita Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain2003
ARCO´03, Sandunga Gallery, Madrid, Spain2002
Foro Sur Art Fair, Sandunga Gallery, Cáceres, SpainHotel y Arte´02, Sandunga Gallery, Inglaterra Hotel, Sevilla, Spain
2001
Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection, Instituto de América, Centro DamiánBayón, Santa Fé, Granada, Spain
2000
Borsisti 1999-2000, Spanish Academy, Rome, ItalyBecarios Academia de España en Roma, Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
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MAGAZINES:
JUXTAPOZ, The Surrealist Adventurer, Gwynned Vitello, June 2017
ARTSLANT
HARPERS' MAGAZINE
IRREVERSIBLE MAGAZINE
LA PALANCA DE CAMBIO
LA RAYA VERDE
PRESS
Juxtapoz, Paco Pomet's Elegant and Surreal "Beginnings" @ Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, April 7, 2021
Juxtapoz, The Recent (But Oh So Quietly Bizarre) Paintings of Paco Pomet, February 16, 2021
Juxtapoz, Art In Uncertain Times: Paco Pomet Used To Paint the Surreal World, Now We Live In It, April 8, 2020
Juxtapoz, An Ailment You Enjoy: A Conversation with Paco Pomet, September 13, 2018
Juxtapoz, Paco Pomet, The Surrealist Adventurer Interview, June 14, 2017
Cadena SER | “Tengo cosas más importantes que hacer que mostrar mi obra en ARCO”
CNN | “Welcome to Dismaland: Banksy’s new grotesque art theme park “
Diario ABC | “Esos otros mundos”
Diario ABC | “Huracanes de pega”
Diario ABC | “Paco Pomet hace en Sevilla su primera muestra individual”
Diario EL CONFIDENCIAL | “Dismaland, el parque menos divertido del mundo”
Diario EL PAÍS | “La gran bofetada de Banksy”
Diario EL PAÍS | “Un grito de guerra”
Diario IDEAL | “Diputación organiza la primera retrospectiva del pintor granadino Paco Pomet”
Diario IDEAL | “El artista granadino Paco Pomet triunfa en la Bienal de Beijing”
Diario IDEAL | “El éxito de público amplia la exposición de Paco Pomet hasta el 29 Abril de 2012”
Diario LA VERDAD | “Banksy elige a Pomet”
EL CULTURAL | “Paco Pomet, el progreso regresivo”
EUROPAPRESS | “Primera retrospectiva en España dedicada al pintor granadino Paco Pomet”
GRANADA HOY | “La realidad pierde su contexto”
GRANADA HOY | “Paco Pomet se suma a la última provocación de Banksy: Dismaland”
Radio 3, RNE3. “Hoy empieza todo” (21/9/2015)
Radio Clásica, RNE2. “Juego de espejos” (19/10/2015)
THE HUFFINGTON POST | “Paco Pomet at Monya Rowe Gallery”
THE HUFFINGTON POST ǀ “Paco Pomet’s Surreal Paintings Take Vintage Photography To The Next Level
YOROKOBU ǀ “Paco Pomet, el pintor granaíno que expone con Banksy”
CATALOG
“CONTRA LA INERCIA”. Catálogo de la exposición. Palacio de los Condes de Gabia. Granada, 2012.
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2005
Colegio de España. Ministry of Cultural Affairs. París. France.1999-2000
Spanish Academy, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Rome, ItalyFortuny Scholarship, Spanish Consulate in Venice, Italy
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Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Madrid, Spain
Spanish Academy, Rome, Italy
Santander Museum of Fine Arts, Spain
IVAM (Valencia Institute of Modern Art), Spain
Colecciōn Solo, Madrid, Spain