Guim Tió loves olives...

Spanish artist Guim Tió is a man of few words.

Looking through the ‘about’ section on his website, this is all he has to say…

I find his work both captivating and deeply unsettling.

I thinks it’s the eyes which for some reason always remind me of fish eyes.

His work stems from interest in the human condition, which he then treats with humour, irony and a strong degree of provocation. He reflects on a society full of taboos and submitted to a visual tyranny of television, advertising and of course fashion magazines ( and this was even before our world was consumed by the hellish shadow of social media).

He started his magazine project in 2010 where he altered fashion magazine images with chemicals and oil pastels transforming attractive models into abstract, and sometimes unsettling, figures. Only a small part of the magazine is left untouched or barely altered, as a trace of the subject’s past life.

Since 2014 Guim has been composing more personal, intimate works, exploring and developing his own artistic process. His most recent work is equally wonderful but in a totally different way. Featuring isolated figures these strike me as peaceful rather than solitary and lonely.

We all need some alone time…

Queen Marie

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