| Exhibition by Puerto Rican artist Enoc Perez opens at Faggionato Fine Art in London |
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LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Art presents Enoc Perez: Nudes, since 2009, Enoc Perez’s nudes have undergone a transformation. This exhilarating new series takes his existing preoccupation with the classical subject of the nude - as reinterpreted through the grounding visual lexicon of pornography - and transcends it, to incorporate an expanded engagement with the idea of painting itself. In these and his previous studies of nudes, Perez paints transient images mined from amateur pornography, ‘a wasteland of imagery’, selecting fleeting visions that capture ‘moments of grace’, infused with love and desire, as he perceives them. In his earlier works, the nude figures are close-up, confrontational and dominate the foreground, defined and emphasised by the unique process of ‘brushless painting’ that Perez employs - multiple drawings are made on separate sheets, and then overpainted in read full article
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