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Spanish artist Paco Pomet's new sequence of paintings with the Monya Rowe Gallery reference classic pictures, however the artist has additional quirky and humorous twists to his photographs which "allow[s] every portray to oscillate amongst fiction and actuality." Men's faces have been oddly contorted to appear like comical masks in El Becario and An Invitation; hunters' heads were replaced with cat heads in Fabula; people inside a rowboat have Donald Duck-like beaks connected to their faces Wooden Sheds in Rehen (which translates to "hostage"); and a male soldier is proven pantless and sporting higher heels in Manual Transexual De Historia Contemporanea.

The title of Pomet's series, Montaigne's Nightmare, was inspired by "the French Renaissance thinker Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)." Thought of the father of "Modern Skepticism buy oil paintings ," Montaigne's composing model combined "serious intellectual principle merged with informal anecdotes." Pomet adapted Montaigne's "democratic Cezanne Paintings
and humanistic method to writing" for his paintings. Though at first glance Pomet's paintings seem light and humorous, a longer search reveals darker undertones involving war, politics, capitalism and "themes of loneliness, existentialism, sexuality, battle, and class." By inserting perverse and surreal touches, paintings for sale Pomet cleverly lures viewers into his work and then confronts them with uneasy subtext. Understand far more at Monyarowegallery.com and with the artist's internet site Pacopomet.wordpress.com. Via November 6th.