VÍTOR MEJUTO COMMENCES HIS COLLABORATION WITH WORK ON PAPER

The collection of drawings The Lost Syllabary by Vítor Mejuto (Barcelona, 1969), was first exhibited at the Schema exhibited at the Schema Projects Gallery, in New York, in 2013, and later, in 2014, at Syn Geometría, an exhibition in A Coruña and Pamplona. Following this itinerancy, Mejuto now presents this work in Obra sobre Papel (Work on Paper) in what is his first collaboration with this virtual art gallery. The geometric abstraction developed by this artist since the final decade of the last century, always with different, renewed visual languages, holds a powerful iconic will. In this collection, the first by Mejuto on paper, some of the most charismatic identifying marks of his painting are present. On the one hand, there is the chromatic treatment and the fine pencil lines that suggest the initial scheme of the drawing, along with the attributes of he support, generate a whole imbued with subtle textures.

Vítor Mejuto

Families of forms

The production of Vítor Mejuto, an artiste who lives and works in Galicia, has been regularly exhibited since the middle of 1995, in individual and collective exhibitions, mostly in Spain and in other European countries. His aesthetic proposal, initially constructivist in nature, swiftly evolved towards geometric abstraction. Mejuto’s work over the past few years has been widely acclaimed by the critics and public, which has coincided with a particularly productive stage of this author. Drawing for Mejuto has, until now, been a work tool to develop notes, some of which have later become paintings. Part of the visual interest found in The Lost Syllabary is that this is his first collection on paper and is a series of works in which the artist generates charismatic “families of forms”, according to the definition used by the abstract artist, Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid, 1915-2007).