Over the years, we have witnessed the evolution of this artist’s work. From iconic and ironic representations based on stories taken from the media, to the conceptual and reflexive period when texts and literary quotations ended up replacing images.

We now have the opportunity to have a look at a much more abstract and pictorial universe which, however, is still reigned by the ambivalence that characterizes the work of this artist. Baez pursues an almost obsessive activity, cutting pieces of paper that are put together and assembled into different shapes where color also plays an important role. These paper structures of a fragile appearance acquire a scenographic value as they stretch across the space as if they were a big mural. In order to enhance this effect and to even question the formal individuality of the pieces, the artist combines the pieces, that end up entangled in an extended installation.

Paradoxes are often present in the work of Jose María Baez. The paradox in this installation is that it is built with pieces of a purely pictorial origin and character.