EPICENTER

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Since he decided to dedicate himself to art, Domingo set himself the challenge of listening to those ideas that circle around him and are the result of contemplating what surrounds him. He pays close attention to them and works through them, becoming a fine filter that sieves and refines them in order to respond to his questions. In a tug-of-war between the ideal and the possible, between the potential of the imaginary and the limitations of materialization, he follows the latent indications that guide him. This is how he arrives at the essence—the epicenter—of his creations.

Through line and monochrome, he searches in form and in empty space for a way to develop that spatial, musical, rugged, circular, clean, demanding, and overflowing world that lives within him and pulses to flow outward.

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In the back-and-forth of his markers, he has found a personal language that he continues to perfect with the risk and adventure of facing the blank page each time, while also proposing alternatives that translate his drawings into found objects that he cites in photographic records or presents in their plain materiality.

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Górriz never stops questioning himself, and he translates his discoveries into works that, once completed, present him with new uncertainties. How fortunate that this young artist has already understood that simplicity is the abbreviation of complexity and the gateway to depth. With this achievement under his arm and between his eyebrows, he has much ahead of him.

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s. herrera u.
April, 2023

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Geo-graphy

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Landscape must be the greatest cliché in art. But cliché interests me. I believe it holds something essential, attractive, and universal—something we all understand almost instinctively.

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For this exhibition, I chose a few ideas and abstract forms that reminded me of or alluded—without wanting to limit their references—to the mountains, volcanoes, valleys, and mounds of the territory in which we live.

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Many times, the strokes in my drawings, in their flat two-dimensionality, are interpreted in the mind in a topographic manner, as if they were a map describing three-dimensional volumes. And looking deeper, I enjoyed the similarities between the way these drawings are composed and the composition of the Earth’s crust: layers, parallel lines, geological strata.

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Curiously, much of my work could be categorized as “geometric abstraction,” and the word ‘geometry’ comes from the Greek geo: earth, and métron: measure. Meanwhile, ‘geography’ adds gráphein, the root of graphic, meaning drawing, to draw.

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I also thought about earthquakes, which to our perception are naturally destructive, yet are caused by the same tectonic tensions that created these mountains and lifted the continent from the sea. A duality I see reflected, ironically, in how we deform the landscape by building upon it—or by mining and cutting it down—to obtain the materials needed to inhabit it and develop ourselves.

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At the center of these ideas, and tying them together in a circular way, lies the title of the exhibition: Epicenter.

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Domingo Górriz
May 2023