Pigment Gallery

Pigment Gallery was launched in Barcelona in January 2016 with the aim of adapting interactively to the changing global society in order to ensure contemporary art reaches anyone with curiosity or sensitivity towards art.

Pigment Gallery deals in the promoting and publicising of contemporary art, within new artists from both home and abroad, and to present their works both nationally and internationally, especially at the main contemporary art fairs held around the world. The gallery supports a take on reality and current trends that fees from modes and cliches, in search for new voices that provide a fresh breeze to the art world. Discovering, sharing, investing and generating discussion spaces rather than merely exhibiting.

Represented artists:

Rosa Galindo, Juan Escudero, David Morago, Rosanna Casano, Marta Fàbregas, Manu vb Tintoré, Marcelo Fuentes, Gerard Fernández Rico, Patricio Reig, Anke Blaue, Penélope Clot, Jordi Martoranno, Carlos Tárdez, Diego Benéitez, Martina Manyà, Eduardo Pérez - Cabrero, Rosa Artero, Carla Tarruella, Francesca Poza, Dominica Sánchez, Diego Ferrari, Marcel Camps, Marcos Isamat, Benjamin Gaumard, Victor Silva, Juan Miguel Quiñones, Mario Pasqualotto, Ana Monsó.

'Double Coding' is a term used in semiotics, communication, cognitive psychology, literary theory and computer science. It refers to the specific use of forms of representation or coding that allow for various interpretations.

The concept is applicable to the works for the exhibition at Pigment Gallery, where Sito Mújica (Sabadell, Barcelona, 1971) constructs paintings from digital images, imitating the semicircular pattern manually, as Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein or Sigmar Polke did previously. In addition, figurative elements are integrated with plastic icons that evoke abstract paintings, creating a simultaneous representation or multilayer planes. Although unique, the works result from the appropriation of practices and representations from different origins.

The result is a hybridization between Greco-Roman iconography, contemporary fashion and graphic pop culture. A combination of codes that provides various avenues for perception.