UNDIGITAL

A PAINTING PROJECT STARTED IN MADRID, SPAIN, IN 2019

"Sebastián Boesmi's recent work connects with elemental moments of the pictorial gesture, thrown into a context where the hegemony of visual images has been usurped by the onslaught of digital ones. Like other artists challenged by this shift, Boesmi belongs to a lineage whose biographical chronology allowed him to experience this transition, and this very fact has provided him with the necessary tools to execute the return. It is not merely a nostalgic touch, but a practice deeply rooted in the mechanisms that allow humans to interpret and grasp reality. Computers, cell phones, and smartphones have only been among us for a few decades, but for tens of thousands of years, human beings have trained their hand to hold a brush and inscribe color, desires, and dreams on surfaces." (...)

Damián Cabrera, 2023.