GONZALO SAEZ DIAZ MERRY

I currently work in a pop style with a touch of surrealism. My iconography is composed of all kinds of cultural and mass media references present in the collective unconscious (brands, characters, objects, or texts), albeit decontextualized, to imbue them with new meaning through the dialogue created between them. Among these icons, those that refer to my childhood, or even, more recently, to my children's tastes, predominate. Eroticism with a certain air of naiveté is also common. I seek to awaken the viewer's imagination through the decontextualization of the characters and the apparent incongruity of the representation, so that conflicting feelings emerge from the title of the work and the iconography used. I may evoke memories of my childhood, or draw them to the eroticism of a gaze, discover beauty in violent scenes, or laugh when deciphering the contradictions in my works. My work clearly reflects British and American Pop Art from the 1950s and 1960s, Richard Hamilton, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Spanish artists such as Equipo Crónica, Antonio de Felipe, Óscar Seco, and other international artists such as Banksy, Takashi Murakami, and Yue Minjun. The influence of illustrators such as Milo Manara and Alberto Vargas is also evident.