Boy 12 (2018) Painting by Maresma

Tapies considered painting as a form of meditation with the ability to modify consciousness. This relationship between the artist and mystical thought is also something rooted in Maresma's works, with which he wants to stand us in front of a mirror to show us the inner reality of all of us. His pieces start from the imperfection that makes us unique as individuals, and they want to highlight irregular shapes that show us the roughness and roughness of the character of each figure, just as the roughness of our skin tells us something about our life Maresma does not want to show figures that show the world an idealized and hedonistic beauty of the being that we would like to be, but deformed and strange faces where the brokenness of people's interior is evident in their gaze and expression . This is how the life of these flat and synthetic forms begins, which function as a spiritual mirror that helps us become aware of our emotions and feelings, sometimes more human; other times more monstrous. It is the visualization of what is most unstable in human nature. What reason tries to hide from others or show it more orderly, when in reality it is something chaotic that confuses us. The eyes, as windows to the soul, open up and contribute to the expressiveness of faces that want to smile. They may not be happy faces, but they are not unhappy either. They are simply here and now, as the mystical precepts oblige, so that we look at them and become aware that they are us too. The faces of Maresma want, as Tàpies wanted, to modify even a little the way in which we accept our nature.

• Nationality: SPAIN
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary Spanish Artists Artists presented by a gallery