‘Everything weighs’
The work that Miguel Marina shows us is full of absence, what he paints remains hidden in a tension of rhythms in another place, at another time. We only see the vestige of a fleeting and decisive movement, which keeps traces of other paintings on the canvas, where if we look closely, we see its wake. Traces that come and go, and that allow us to intuit that succession of decisions, so that the internal relationships that support the painting appear. A series of paths that take us to different centers of gravity that make it possible for everything to weigh and nothing to fall. With this exhibition, the author continues the work developed on the paper-tablecloths painted in 2017-2018 during his stay at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. To emphasize his positioning in the way of understanding painting from the need to continue painting. An invitation to abandonment in that appearance of random relationships and forms to reach what George Duthuit called the “floating attention” so necessary to look and not fall.
Pilar Soler Montes.