Artist: Miquel Ponce
Exhibition title: The possibilities are infinite now
Venue: Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca, Spain
Date: June 9 – September 9, 2022
Photography: Grimalt de Blanch / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca
The possibilities are infinite (now), because later they are no longer infinite. When an idea materializes, everything takes shape and ends up being something concrete, something specific… but at an earlier point, all the possibilities were infinite. Ponce decides to make it concrete, like someone looking for the solution to a problem, like someone looking to find an answer, but in this case, the answer can be very complex and it is not until the artist decides that this is the answer that it becomes valid.
Process is a word with an important sense. It gives sense to the artistic proposal, based on process as a temporal decisions’ succession which conjugate an image or object. The artist think about that decisions as a premeditated thing, with sense, but it is not always like this. The human being search some meaning on all they can see, but not everything have it. When we speak about process, we directly believe that all have an explanation and it’s the result of a complex premeditation; but, sometimes things just happen and artists are capable of seeing it.
Ponce is interested in the process as something cyclical, which feeds back, in that which you encountered some time ago, reappears some time later, as if it were a leitmotif that accompanies you. His attention is focused on the motifs that reappear, on those elements that make sense when the gaze comes across them again, or on pieces that are completed in a magical way.
Find an outcome in a never finishing process, which is not conclusive which poses new starts. An open final implying the beginning of a new history where the main character says: “The possibilities are infinite now”.
Miquel Ponce, The possibilities are infinite now, 2022, exhibition view, Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca
Miquel Ponce, The possibilities are infinite now, 2022, exhibition view, Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca
Miquel Ponce, The possibilities are infinite now, 2022, exhibition view, Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca
Miquel Ponce, The possibilities are infinite now, 2022, exhibition view, Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca
Miquel Ponce, The possibilities are infinite now, 2022, exhibition view, Galería Fran Reus, Mallorca
Miquel Ponce, Untitled (2022). Collage, waxes, synthetic paint and graphite pencil on paper. 150 x 110 cm
Miquel Ponce, Untitled (2022). Oil and graphite pencil on canvas on wood table. 22 x 27 cm
Miquel Ponce, Untitled (2022), Mockup
Miquel Ponce, Untitled (2022). Collage, sandpaper, waxes and graphite pencil. 61 x 50 cm
Miquel Ponce, Untitled (2022). Oil and graphite pencil on canvas on wood table. 19 x 24 cm
Miquel Ponce, Untitled (2022). Acrilyc, oil papel and graphite pencil on canvas on wood table. 100 x 81 cm