Presentation

Suso Camuñas constructs his paintings with a robust movement of
hands that spread the paint violently over a piece of wood. These
works are not merely complacent, but pieces constructed in order to
hurt the eye of the beholder and bring about reflection.

Camuñas’ themes are mostly ecological. Some of his series, such as
“Against Nature” and “Wounded Animals”, are conceived with the
aim of jolting viewers into reacting against loss of control in a world
that is disappearing under the influence of economic power. The
artist brings his ecological awareness to an extreme, while using
recycled or disused products.

As an artist who is not oblivious of the world around him, Camuñas’
criticism takes on a more social agenda with “Immigrant Boats” and
“Burkas”, in which he openly confronts the drama of immigration
and the clash between cultures. This idea is accentuated by the use
of a palette of strongly contrasting colours and by the
aggressiveness shown in the physical production of the paintings.

This pictorial treatment can also be intuited in other series on
ostensibly more banal themes, such as “Imaginary Flowers”,
“Dancers” and “Abstracts”. In these pieces, the artist makes a bid
for a more radical, almost three-dimensional, visual approach in
which the paintings acquire relief and turn into sculptural works.
This is when the painting takes on a life of its own.