Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
David Agenjo‘s work could be considered modern impressionism. His penchant for using a cool color palette appears deliberate. It creates a distance between the subject, which is often human, and the viewer. As a result, it’s almost voyeuristic. You experience these people but you’re disconnected from them emotionally. You wonder their origins, their wants.
David’s work exhibits such a dynamic tension.
Even when the subjects’ bodies are more expressive, their facial expressions are stoic furthering the detached nature of his work. There are bursts of vivid colors placed haphazardly within the paintings and coupled with the kinetic brush strokes, the painting feels less subdued and more lively. It’s a delicate balance. One I think is more successful with the Portraits, Hands-on Canvas + Oneself collections; and less so with his Up & Down in Town series.
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
Claude Monet
Born in Madrid, 1977, David Agenjo is a self-taught artist
living and working in London. After a brief career as a
graphic designer, he now devotes himself entirely
to painting. He has been exhibited in New York, London,
Dublin and Madrid.His primary focus is on the human body, communicating
a personal engagement through colour and texture
allowing us to reconnect with the architecture
of living beings. He develops each new painting on top
of his previously used palette, fusing the given abstract
random colours and textures with new layers of figurative
depiction to create a new organic composition.
This interlinks the whole body of his work, each painting
affecting the next in a natural reproductive-like process.
