Pedro Medina (1990, Maracaibo). Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Experimental Faculty of Arts of the University of Zulia. Maracaibo (2017).
Pedro Medina explores the material world through painting and with his practice he documents how it is to live, consume and simply, make art today.
His painting is framed within figuration and naturalism, highlighting everyday scenes, human dynamics, portraits and natural and city landscapes; all keeping intimate relationship with the artist so they are spaces lived by him. The objects we treasure, the food we eat, the furniture in our homes, the clothes we wear and the context we inhabit tell the stories of who we are, what we value and where we come from.
Ruth Auerbach explains that “these scenes, which could emulate the tradition of the costumbrista genre, do not come from her imagination, they have been previously recorded by the camera lens in photographic snapshots to be brought to the canvas in a meticulous way, avoiding hyperrealism in favor of a naturalistic enunciation. And, even without being representations made outdoors they do not cease to be perceived as a nod to the impressionist au plein-air technique, coming closer to the pictorial photographic strategies used by Edward Hopper or David Hockney.”
He has had solo exhibitions at MACZUL (2018), Alianza Francesa de Maracaibo (2018) and currently at La ONG (2020). She has participated in some group exhibitions such as GOMA at GBG ARTS (Caracas, 2019), TIERRA DE GRACIA at Beatriz Gil Galería (Caracas, 2019), CONTINUO INICIO with EL BLOQUE (Mérida, 2019), LATENTE at Hacienda La Trinidad with Carmen Araujo and Abra Caracas (Ccs, 2018), Salón Jóvenes con FIA at MACZUL (Honorable Mention) (Maracaibo, 2016). First prize at the 11th National Salon of Young Artists (MACZUL Maracaibo, 2015).