VLAB is pleased to present the exclusive presentation titled “EL ANTROPOMORFOS EN SUS CONTEXTOS Y VARIANTES''  featuring new works by PEDRO HOZ that have never been shown before in an exhibition. The presentation explores the universe of anthropomorphs and surreal situations that drove the artist to completely forget the reason and the pursuit of specificity.

Pedro Pablo Hoz Domínguez (Málaga, 2000) describes himself as a surrealist painter. Self-taught and coming from a family environment with no artistic background, he is greatly influenced by his hometown, the lives of the painters and the magic of the Mediterranean. His work is based on his own imagery and focuses on compositions made up of anthropomorphs and other organic figures. Despite fleeing from concept and explanation, his work shows influences from Flemish art to Dadaism. His main inspiration are artists such as George Condo, Picasso, Dalí, El Bosco, Daniel Richter and even Hockney in the color palette.

In the presentation "EL ANTROPOMORFOS EN SUS CONTEXTOS Y VARIANTES'', the artist has created 11 new works whose starting point comes from a previous collection in which he explored the anthropomorphos from an architectural point of view, in which he merely represented the most simplified silhouette of what he called “faceless anthropomorphs in different positions” and with slight variations to represent images that from a distant perspective represented other creatures. The paintings of this presentation are accompanied by small anthropomorphic sculptures taken from the paintings that are lying on the frame so that the creatures transcend the canvas to come closer to the viewer.

Throughout Pedro's work, there is a recurring symbolism such as the eyes that are fulfilling different roles. These eyes, which are present in living organisms, create a series of pareidolian forms that can sometimes look like creatures with their own disguised character.

Pedro Hoz’s presentation “EL ANTROPOMORFOS EN SUS CONTEXTOS Y VARIANTES” will run from October 5th through October 14th, 2023 at VLAB Madrid.