"He got his driver's license at fifty, and his first car was a 600 that got stolen barely a week after he bought it. When he managed to save up for another one, he chose a cadmium yellow Seat 133 and decided to replace the bumpers with wooden ones. He was a carpenter. I sometimes picture him driving that new car, proud, crossing the city with the bumpers he made himself. That image always makes me laugh."
"Without knowing it, he's the origin of many of the gestures we still repeat in our family: this way of believing that everything can be improved if we touch it with our hands, if we transform it just a little. That's who we are. We like to intervene, to alter and bring new meaning to the everyday-always through art. In this body of work, and in keeping with family tradition, I wanted to offer my own take on the classical oil portrait"
A grandfather earned a driver's license at fifty, lost his first car, and later drove a cadmium-yellow Seat 133 with homemade wooden bumpers, reflecting his carpentry. Family members repeatedly improve everyday objects by hand and through art. The work transforms classical oil portrait techniques to focus on cars as intimate stages where light, shadow, and curvilinear vehicle geometries are isolated, cropped, and recontextualized. The series preserves vibrant colors and textures that streets have lost, gathering memories, journeys, love stories, friends, and strangers. A long relationship with a black 2004 Micra symbolizes personal loss, passage of time, and faithful companionship.
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