Mi sombra quema, 2023
Pedro Guerrero

Painting : oil

120 x 240 x 1 cm 47.2 x 94.5 x 0.4 inch

€4,561 4 561 €

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Signature

Hand-signed by artist

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Dimensions cm inch

120 x 240 x 1 cm 47.2 x 94.5 x 0.4 inch Height x Width x Depth

Framing

Not framed


Tags

Abstract

Colors

Abstract expressionism

Red

Purple

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: Mexico

Pedro Guerrero gestural abstract painting oil on canvas: a presence that burns

Before trying to understand it, Mi sombra quema is felt. The work envelops the viewer from the first glance with a dense, almost physical energy that does not fade over time. In this painting by Pedro Guerrero, gesture dominates the space and transforms color into experience. Pedro Guerrero gestural abstract painting oil on canvas does not propose a recognizable image, but an emotional presence that settles in and remains. Here, contemporary abstraction is not distance; it is direct contact—matter under tension, paint that breathes and pushes forward from the surface.

Oil on canvas: intensity that cuts through

The surface vibrates with dragged, rubbed, and superimposed layers that build an irregular, visceral rhythm. Red appears as a constant pulse—between wound and energy—while deep blacks generate weight and resistance. Eroded whites and grays interrupt the chromatic mass like remnants of something trying to emerge. This contemporary abstract painting does not seek harmony; it activates a bodily experience where gesture, color, and matter impose themselves as a sustained presence. Oil on canvas worked through friction, not containment.

Contemporary abstraction: a shadow that burns

The differential concept condenses into one clear idea: the shadow does not cool—it burns. Here it does not function as absence, but as something intimate that accompanies and consumes at the same time. The work does not project outward; it stays, insists, remains within the viewer. That tension—between what weighs down and what propels—makes the human experience recognizable without resorting to figuration. Gestural painting becomes a space where emotion takes form without narration, and discomfort turns into language.

Pedro Guerrero oil on canvas: gesture as signature

Pedro Guerrero's pictorial signature is recognized in the direct, physical stroke, decided by bodily movement rather than reason. His work subtly dialogues with the visual energy of Anselm Kiefer, through the use of gesture, material density, and a palette that carries meaning beyond color. An artist trained in fine arts, his practice pursues the aesthetic zenith of the work as a field of formal freedom. Mi sombra quema is an original artwork, a unique piece, a signed work, created in oil on canvas, in large format (240 × 120 cm), produced in 2023 as a record of a presence that does not extinguish, but burns through time.

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Ilusorio Arte • France

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Pedro Guerrero, Mi sombra quema
Mexico  • 2000

Presentation

La intención vigente que por ahora persigue mi práctica artística, es el alcanzar el cenit estético de la obra en sí. Eso me abre la posibilidad de transitar libremente por el lenguaje formal de la pintura.
La práctica conceptual que aparece en ella, ejerce la expresión pictórica, sin ninguna pretensión de profundizar más allá de lo vi-sible. La pintura, como la pintura misma. Busco una manera original de mi pintura, dentro de una forma ya conocida de expresión pictórica.
Mi obra ha sido influenciada por diversos movimientos pictóricos claves que surgen a finales del siglo XIX y se desarrollan durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. Siempre bajo la premisa de ser influenciada, creada y pensada dentro de los fenómenos propios

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