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Angel Vergara (1958) is dedicated to a continued research into the power of the image. By means of performances, videos, installations, paintings and drawings he tests the limits of art and reality. He questions the way the contemporary image shapes the intermingled public and private spheres. Every work is an attempt to break through the image and to make its impact on an aesthetic as well as a socio-cultural and political level. 

With his work, Vergara creates a new, suspended reality, grown from the artist’s personal dialogue with reality and with the image by which it has already been transformed.

Decontextualised images of reality are mediated by the artist and transformed into art. The viewer is thus encouraged to question his way of perceiving the everyday and the way it is presented to him in images. Vergara’s art disorients and disconcerts the viewer. It questions what is known and opens paths to new modes of signification.

Despite his extensive use of moving image, Vergara remains a painter who constantly revisits the pictorial field in the gap between two disciplines, this is embodied by his paintings on glass.