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.

Pencil on paper is the preferred technique in this exhibition. The apparent simplicity of this procedure has been captivating me for years. Graphite may be the second or third oldest mineral in the Universe. The term graphite derives from the Greek γράφειν (graphein) which means ‘to write’, and it is well known that graphite is mainly used to make pencil leads. In my work, writing is part of the beginning of the pieces, like sketches, and in this line of work I have needed to place myself in the idea of origin. There is always a clear intention to capture moments, places, people and decisive elements of a vital moment. The pencil has allowed me a kind of review or reset of the situation. I have searched within my origins and looked at the present, heavy with salt. The exhibition is divided into two parts: there are some drawings taken from the family album: grandparents, parents, uncles... and there are others drawn from life, showing people, landscapes and places that are lived, everyday and close. Between origin, distance and the present lies the search that pulses through these drawings. 

Manolo Sierra (Cadiz, 1973), July 2025.