Daniel Verbis

Daniel Verbis - Plant Life

Technique: Collage and acrylic

Artist Biography: Daniel Verbis (León, 1968) is an unorthodox artist who experiments with a wide variety of materials, including resins, plasticine, buttons, threads and wool, ropes and plastic canvas, which have traditionally remained outside the realm of pictorial techniques. With a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca between 1986 and 1991, his work combines installations with painting, integrating both in a playful game that gives priority to questions and interrogations. In his artistic work, Verbis does not recognize the old differences and antagonisms between painting and sculpture, and his images are open, guessing the process that gives way for the viewer to resume the reading in another work where the same motif is resolved with a different technique, often the canvas frame is an important part of the final meaning of the image, which makes his works visual clues for the viewer to make an interpretation of the mechanisms of artistic meaning. In his latest works, Verbis focuses on aluminum foil and drawing, projecting colored circles and making drawings with oils, pens and threads. His work focuses on essentialist aspects of forms or assemblages of net forms, without ornamentation, and is an example of the transgression of boundaries between artistic genres. In short, Verbis is a highly creative and transgressive contemporary artist whose work challenges conventions and explores new aesthetic territories.