Sr. Gotta

Marco Prieto / Sr. Gotta (Madrid, 1992) develops his artistic practice through painting, from which he problematizes the notion of authorship and the hegemonic identity of the creator subject. In his work, he substitutes the brushstroke understood as a personal gesture for the blow as a primal, original gesture, transversal to the human experience, shifting painting towards a territory where action takes precedence over individual expression. This operation allows him to overcome the romantic relationship with portraiture and radicalize it, transforming it into a field of tension and confrontation. The impacts on the canvas and the unpredictability they generate activate a space where the boundaries between the controlled and the accidental blur, expanding the limits of portraiture as a device for questioning mechanisms of personalization, supervision, and identification. Through this exploration, Marco Prieto constructs ambiguous semblances of power that overflow the individualistic vortex and directly appeal to the spectator's human condition, situating the work in a territory of friction between identity, violence, and representation.