Glitch art: it’s everywhere these days. Need a pillow for your couch or a blanket for your bed? How about some fabulous flip-flops to finish off the summer? Glitch art may be the new black, but Spanish artist Alejandro Bombín is bringing it back to acrylic with his large-scale paintings that mimic low-resolution digital glitches.
He begins by scanning a page from a magazine, newspaper, book, encyclopedia, etc. This image then becomes the starting point for his composition. He paints in horizontal strips, moving from one end of the canvas to the other and always covering up the segment he has just completed so it is hidden from view. Only after he has finished the last section does he remove the tape covering the rest of the canvas, revealing his finished work for the first time.
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Bombín is interested in documenting the transition from analogue to ditigal by means of a medium that takes us back to analogue. His paintings explore the role that analogue forms of expression play in a digitized world, making reference to the thousands of digital images we are confronted with every day. His process of meticulous layering can be seen to reflect this constant onslaught of media images, while his use of horizontal segments recalls the striped pattern of scanned images. He calls his process “screen painting.”
[via The Jealous Curator]
