Marc Prats Quintana

Marc Prats-Quintana sees painting as a fundamentally romantic gesture. He paints to fulfill a hungry urge, driven by an archeological curiosity to reveal the depths of the material world. In that fashion, the brush becomes a shovel and the canvas a geological site where paint, sand and raw pigment accumulate over many months to then be excavated and rebuilt. The acts of digging, scraping and sanding take on a new meaning as the buried memory of paintings past is revealed in a new light. Memory is a central interest of Prats-Quintana, which he approaches through the study of place and how personal images are made, reproduced and circulated. The pictures that often become the foundation for his work, then, range from candid portraits of close ones to snapshots of his birthplace’s Mediterranean landscape.