With his art, the Spanish Gitano has found an adequate pictorial
expression for the Fla-menco and thus has expanded this culture with a
new facet of abstract art. The winner of the Premio de la Cultura Gitana
2012 succeeds in congenially translating the enigmatic Duen-de state of
flamenco into painting and ceramics.
In his childhood, Gómez Romero was fascinated by the shapes created by
the lime falling to the floor with which his mother whitewashed the walls of
her house every year. He lost himself in contemplation of the innumerable
shapes of the splashes and splashes. And it is still these forms that
occupy the painter today in his work. Gómez Romero only began painting
under the influence of his wife Joana Artigas, whose father Joan Gardy
Artigas and grandfather Llorenc Artigas were companions with their
ceramic art and were sometimes collaborators with Pablo Picasso, Juan
Miró, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall or Alberto Giacometti. In the Artigas
workshop, Manolo Gómez Romero first learned to work with ceramics and
later devoted himself to painting. After ten years of private work, he
exhibited for the first time in 2002. In the meantime Gómez is a frequently
presented artist in Spain.
The exhibition presents large-format new works by the artist for the first
time. It is the first project of the new Kai Dikhas Foundation, a non-profit
foundation for art and culture of the Sinti and Roma, which will continue
the gallery's work from 2021.