Peristaltic painting no. 3
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- Peristaltic painting no. 3
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- 1992
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- 200 x 200 cm
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- Mixed media on canvas
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- This large-format work, created in 1992, is representative of Miquel Barceló’s pictorial language from the early nineties. The surface is defined by a dense material load where the pigment, mixed with other media, is worked through swirling lines, accretions, and erosions. The composition features a chromatic range of greys, blacks, off-whites, and ochres, creating a relief-like texture that oscillates between gestural abstraction and fragmented figuration.
Within this visual field, bull heads emerge, appearing submerged and in the process of dissolution within the material mass. The figure of the bull acts as a recurring element in the artist's career, linked to Mediterranean cultural memory. The work documents Barceló’s experimentation with the physical reactions of materials on canvas, where forms seem to constitute and disappear simultaneously through the layering and scraping of the paint.
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