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VALPUIG
Cazador de sueño

Solo exhibition · 2019

Blue Sky

Riss Kunst Gallerie · Viena, Austria

Exhibition in Vienna. The palette intensifies within a European context.

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Interview · Marina Riss

Entrevista Marina Riss — A Single Stick Does Not Make a Mount
Interview by Marina Riss: A SINGLE STICK DOES NOT MAKE A MOUNT When I meet Víctor Alexis Puig and we started speak I listened carefully as he told me about his life and painting, he told me that he was a convinced to have found what truly it gave him pleasure, for him to paint it was risking his life diary, his fight between the blank canvas and him is a duel. Puig is a gladiator who constantly renews, his thirst to express drinks of the inexhaustible source of creativity where exclusions do not intimidate him, on the contrary, they stimulate him, this painter - sculptor is a man who does not believe in walls, his works are the hammers that are breaking the fence brick by brick to which they have tried to send him. 1. I was particularly struck by the titles of your works, do you work from the titles or do you paint and then you look for them? I usually have an idea of what I'm going to do although I prefer to work from the titles because that way the work acquires a more theatrical edge and gives me the way to underline what I want to emphasize in my message, a plastic work must be more than an object to decorate even I think it should be like a good book that every time you read it you reflect on it. Yes, in my work the title is maybe where I want it to be observed the painting is like a forced foot and that way where the imagination begins to fly. 2. Your training is part…

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«Puig is a gladiator who constantly renews; his thirst to express drinks of the inexhaustible source of creativity where exclusions do not intimidate him, on the contrary, they stimulate him. This painter-sculptor is a man who does not believe in walls; his works are the hammers that are breaking the fence brick by brick.»

Marina Riss · A Single Stick Does Not Make a Mount — exhibition leaflet, Riss Kunst Gallerie, Vienna

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