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Pablo Benzo: A Different Measure of Time - Solo Exhibition
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Open in the app"A Different Measure of Time" brings together a series of paintings where the boundaries between interior and exterior, figure and landscape, memory and perception become increasingly fluid. Benzo's practice is based on the construction of images that resist a fixed viewpoint.… "A Different Measure of Time" brings together a series of paintings where the boundaries between interior and exterior, figure and landscape, memory and perception become increasingly fluid. Benzo's practice is based on the construction of images that resist a fixed viewpoint. His paintings bring together disparate spaces and perspectives, not to create a coherent world, but to highlight the instability of how we see and remember. In works such as Tree's Advice and The Horizon, nature becomes more than a subject or backdrop. It introduces another temporal scale. The fleeting presence of a figure, the brief life of a flower and the apparent permanence of a tree or mountain coexist within the same image. What seems immobile reveals itself to be another form of movement — a movement that exceeds the human measure of duration. He transforms familiar subjects through colour, spatial compression and variations in scale. Objects and landscapes remain recognizable, but their meaning evolves through the new relationships they establish with other images, spaces and perspectives within the pictorial order he constructs. Memory further complicates this order: images overlap, change scale and reappear in altered forms, producing a space that is neither entirely observed nor entirely remembered. Through this body of work, Benzo proposes painting as a form of temporal and perceptual exploration. By bringing together the human, the natural, memory and the imaginary, he questions what other forms of time might become visible when the authority of our own perspective is suspended. The result is a body of paintings in which stillness is understood not as the absence of change, but as movement perceived according to another measure of time. "A Different Measure of Time"…