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Born 1977 in Madrid, Spain
Antonio Ballester Moreno’s works can be seen as both abstract and figurative, real and surreal. Yet their bright colors and silly playfulness belie a darker side.
He creates works that teeter on the crux between man and nature, between technology and Walden-like hermeticism. These works approach true madness unromanticized – banal and inescapable, all the while with a low-fi approach that is comic, darkly comic. With broad, heavily layered brushstrokes and occasional thick drips depicting everything from lions and pixelated flowers to castles and ghosts, he underlies his subjects with repeating patterns often executed in ink.
Indeed what his works reveal is an absolutely authentic aesthetic in the face of their own disturbed context.
Future shows include MUSAC, León, in autumn 2008. He’s showed with Peres Project, Berlin, and Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona, among others.
 Antonio Ballester Moreno, SIN TÍTULO, 2008, 130x194 cm, acrylic on canvas |