Super-realism is back. It never really went away, but the airbrushed seventies have now given way to a new breed of obsessives, whose sole objective is to focus on technique. The Coke can is a design classic in itself and painting one is the yardstick by which any super-realist is judged. Coke is the the super-real thing after all. But seriously juiclings, it is refreshing to see that painters such as Pedro Campos are using oil on canvas to such technically stunning effect. Contemporary art has in recent years become obsessed by the bold artistic statement. But bold artistic statements are often not enough, especially when they are ugly and meaningless.
Pedro’s work offers us the juxtaposition of the workaday object, executed in paint, with space age precision. Such wow-bang contrasts are what make these paintings successful. Check out his work.
http://www.pedrocampos.net/
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