Pau Aguiló

Biography

Pau Aguiló was born in Mallorca in August 2002 into a family with a very personal relationship with art. He grew up in a small forest on the outskirts of Algaida, a town in the interior of the island. Without wifi, his contact with the world was comprised of some illustrated books and films with historical themes. There, Pau developed a passion for drawing as a game. To this day, the use of imagination, landscape and historical elements continue to be pillars of his work to which many others have joined throughout his life.

After a period in the city of Palma between the ages of ten and fifteen, he became interested in urban life and exchanged his pencils for graffiti cans. Before finishing, he went to a remote town in Ireland where he spent a year rediscovering his passion for fine arts. Today he lives and works in London where this year he completed his degree in "fine arts" at Camberwell University of Arts in London.

Statement

A constant search for satisfaction after achieving a technical achievement as well as subsequent dissatisfaction when observing what the next step could be. They make, together with a rich amalgam of cultural and personal experiences; Voluntarily and involuntarily, Pau Aguiló's work always looks for new themes for new paintings, new situations for new scenes, new ways of repeating strokes and uses of the material in a different order, new ways for the oil technique to accompany it, as well like the search for the feeling that only the manufacturing of the piece gives in a unique and different way.

The construction of worlds and the fascination with human societies make Aguiló's work superficially perceived as a surrealism that is at times deconstructivist and original. But it hides a critical and/or poetic observation of the human condition from its individuality and circumstances. The history of various mostly Western periods, films of all kinds, illustrations by masters such as Goya to comics, contemporary and classical painting as well as many other elements come together in the inspiration of his work, reflecting today's eclectic world through his brush.