Domestic Playground
"Casa Delaunay presents Domestic Playground, Manuel Bompastor's first solo exhibition in Vila do Conde. Domestic Playground focuses mainly on painting, but the artist makes use of several other systems, such as ceramics, sewing, collage, and photography. With a multidisciplinary nature, and using a contemporary vocabulary with different displays, the artist seeks to question the way how abstract painting is shown today. Domestic Playground mirrors the space in which the artist lives after he became a father. Without a studio, the line between work and family environment became blurred. As such, the paintings are no longer displayed on a wall, living now on the floor with toys, diapers and mobiles. In an attempt to eliminate the line that separates the pictorial object from the surrounding space, Manuel Bompastor shapes this one by dragging form, colour and matter out of the canvas – creating a new interpretation of space and thus questioning traditional exhibition methods. Without a specific content, incorporating the manual instead of the mechanical, making room for error and imprecision in the creative process, Manuel Bompastor uses the ambiguous surfaces, the exhibition space and the human body in an attempt to obtain new visions of what is already known to us, offering a synthetic perception of the objects. The space becomes recreational in an attempt to rediscover each material, like a child, for the first time." (Artist statement)
Manuel João Martinho Bompastor (1990, Vila do Conde), graduated in 2020 in Figurative Painting at the Barcelona Academy of Art. He currently lives in Helsinki (Finland) and is enrolled in a MFA at the University of Fine Arts Helsinki (Uniarts).
