USEUM has partnered with Le Dame Art Gallery operating between London (UK) and Capri (Italy), to bring emerging talent in the areas of painting and illustration to the heart of the Art World in London. Le Dame Art Gallery will be exhibiting in various events the best of USEUM’s thousands of contemporary artists from 100 countries around the world. We are hosting USEUM's first ever gallery event on Tuesday the 6th of October at 6.30pm and the exhibition will be on display for one month on the first floor of the prestigious Meliã White House 5-star hotel in Regent’s Park.
This collection is comprised by the 23 artworks exhibited by USEUM and Le Dame Art Gallery, on the first floor of Meliã White House from the 7th of October to the 7th of November and by many more artworks that were very close to be selected.
Granadas al Sol 2007
Mixed media on canvas · 50 x 60 cm
£3,000
For ‘Granadas al Sol’ Gregorio Vallejo drew inspiration from the autumn sun in Southern Spain, with its ochre colours and long shadows. Pomegranates are a typical fruit of the fall season, and are present throughout Vallejo’s body of work. The artist depicts the moment right after the fruits hit the floor, when they burst open to show their full glory. He used various materials -such as a jute canvas, oil paint, wax and sand- that are in dialogue with one another in demon- strating the artistic process.
About the Artist: Gregorio Vallejo Gormariz’s career as an artist started off in Spain, where he studied under Ginés Liébana for a year. He moved his studio to Amsterdam, and in 2002 he finished his studies at the Wackers Academy. The artist mainly works with oil on canvas or ink on paper, yet he does not shy away from more experimental techniques, like collage, and materials, such as pigment, wax and copper. His still life portrayal of fruits and his meticulous representation of natural elements show stillness and movement respectively, the latter being achieved in his studies of the human body that seem to flow on the paper. Vallejo Gomariz has an extensive exhibition history in Spain, the Netherlands, and most recently, in Sweden.
text by Jesse Voetman