Expanding Fridge Unverse, 2024
Alai Ganuza

Painting : oil

70 x 70 x 0.3 cm 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch

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70 x 70 x 0.3 cm 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Artwork location: Spain

This artwork recontextualizes the domestic vernacular through a hyper-saturated consumerist tableau, interrogating notions of abundance within late-capitalist visual culture. Executed with hyperrealist precision, the work’s central refrigerated chamber explodes in chromatic intensity, its post-pop sensibilities evident in the strategic deployment of Fauvist-inspired hues across quotidian food packaging and organic matter.

The artist employs luminist refraction techniques to transform polyethylene wrappers and glass surfaces into a prismatic field, where the tactile materiality of waxen cheese rinds and dewy produce collides with the sterile geometry of industrial shelving. This neo-consumerist allegory achieves tension through its meticulous photorealist verisimilitude in rendering condensation patterns, contrasted against deliberately flattened planes of electric turquoise and cadmium yellows that nod to digital-age chromatic saturation.

By framing the banal as archival ready-made, the composition subverts traditional still-life hierarchies through its non-hierarchical accumulation of globalized commodities—a frozen pizza’s graphic design treated with equal graphic rigor as heirloom tomatoes’ biomorphic forms. The work’s specular overload operates as institutional critique, its vertiginous depth-of-field echoing the contemporary anxiety of choice while reimagining the fridge as a contemporary Wunderkammer of engineered desire.

This post-digital vanitas interrogates preservation aesthetics through its paradoxical celebration/perversion of shelf-life beauty, positioning the domestic appliance as both reliquary and Pandora’s box of neoliberal nourishment. The piece resonates with strategies of New Objectivity reinterpreted through commodity fetishism, inviting discourse on material excess as both celebration and memento mori within our age of engineered perishability.

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Alai Ganuza, Expanding Fridge Unverse
Spain  • 2020

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Graduated in Fine Arts with a specialisation in Painting from the University of the Basque Country in 2020.

Painter and content creator by accident!

My path has always been linked to science. However, at a turning point I decided to study Fine Arts, leaving behind 'painting as a hobby' and looking for what I was truly passionate about.

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