WALLFLOWER
SELEKA MUÑOZ SOLO EXHIBITION
OCT 14 NOV 11 2023
BREACH GALLERY PRESENTS, “WALLFLOWER”, A SOLO EXHIBITION FOR CONTEMPORARY SPANISH ARTIST SELEKA MUÑOZ. THE LARGE-SCALE PAINTINGS INCLUDED IN THIS SHOW EXPRESS A MASTERY OF VIBRANT AND DYNAMIC ABSTRACTION. GROWN FROM A FOUNDATION IN GRAFFITI, MUÑOZ RE-INVIGORATES HIS GENRE WITH A FRESH TAKE ON PATTERN AND GESTURE, PRESENTING COMPOSITIONS THAT ARE BOTH INTROSPECTIVE AND ENERGETIC.
MUÑOZ’S WORK EXEMPLIFIES A CERTAIN INSTINCTUAL GRASP OF ABSTRACTION, MOTION, AND EYE-CATCHING COLOR THAT CAN ONLY BE ATTRIBUTED TO THOSE WHO BEGAN AS GRAFFITI ARTISTS. THE DEDICATION TO THE MATERIAL, WHILE EXPRESSING A DIVERSITY OF TEXTURES, CREATES WORK THAT FEELS ALIVE. THE ARTIST UTILIZES PRECISE AND TRADITIONAL PAINTING TECHNIQUES ALONG WITH A FREE-FLOWING EXPRESSIONIST STYLE TO CONVEY MULTI-LAYERED COMPOSITIONS THAT EXHIBIT VARIED PLANES OF COLOR AND PATTERN.
MUÑOZ’S ARTISTIC PROCESS EMBRACES THE UNEXPECTED – MOMENTS OF CREATION WHICH ARE UNPLANNED YET LEAD TOWARDS THE DISCOVERY OF SOMETHING NEW. EACH OF HIS PAINTINGS TYPICALLY DERIVE FROM A LABORIOUS METHOD IN WHICH THE ARTIST DEVOTES MUCH TIME AND EFFORT TO THE ORCHESTRATION. FOR “WALLFLOWER”, MUÑOZ STRIVES TO PRESENT WORK THAT FEELS FRESH AND ENGAGING. USING COLOR AND FORM THAT CONNECT DIRECTLY TO THE VIEWER, HIS PIECES ENCOURAGE A SIMPLE AND UNEXPECTED DISCOURSE.
WHILE HIS ABSTRACT PAINTINGS DO NOT DIRECTLY REFER TO HIS STREET ART BACKGROUND, THE WORKS CONTINUE TO CONCEPTUALLY BUILD UPON THE IDEA OF INTERVENTION WITHIN URBAN SPACES AND THE JUXTAPOSITION OF AESTHETICS. HIS WORKS FOR “WALLFLOWER”, LIKE THE EPONYMOUS PLANT, GROW UPON THE WALLS AND CRACKS OF ORDERED STRUCTURES, WHETHER THEY BE INVITING INSTITUTIONS OR PROHIBITED SURFACES. TO THE ARTIST, THE PAINTINGS ARE EMBLEMATIC OF NATURE, SPROUTING PROUDLY AND INEVITABLY FROM PLACES UNINTENDED. ALTHOUGH NOT SHY OR INTROVERTED AS THE TITLE OF THE SHOW SUGGESTS, RATHER MUÑOZ SEES THE PRESENCE OF SUCH NATURE WITHIN THE CONCRETE ENVIRONMENT AS AN EXPRESSION OF PERSEVERANCE, CHANCE, AND THE INEVITABLE VICTORIES FOUND IN EXTRAORDINARY PLACES.
SELEKA MUÑOZ (B. 1982, SEVILLE, SPAIN) BEGAN PAINTING AT AN EARLY AGE, TAKING TO GRAFFITI ON THE STREETS OF HIS NATIVE SEVILLE. CONSIDERED ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF STREET ART IN ANDALUSIA, HE CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE AND INNOVATE WITHIN HIS COMMUNITY. AS CO-CURATOR AND OWNER OF DELIMBO GALLERY IN SEVILLE, MUÑOZ PURSUES HIS PRACTICE IN BOTH THE STREETS AND IN THE STUDIO, AND IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS HAS BEGUN TO STEP OUT ONTO THE INTERNATIONAL ART SCENE WITH STIRRING EXHIBITIONS.
