Christopher Grimes Gallery is pleased to present a new body of work by Argentine artist Marcelo Pombo.

 “Marvels of the unexpected wrapped up in the warmth of familiarity, Pombo’s landscapes, like ancient Oriental gardens, are the smallest place in the world and, in an instant, they become the world in its entirety; like medieval gardens, they are spaces created for beauty’s sake and the origin of the first labyrinths; like the Garden of Eden they are paradise lost …”    - Marcelo E. Pacheco, “Marcelo Pombo’s Beauties,” Pombo (catalogue), 2006

 In this new body of work, Pombo displays his signature style, incorporating geometric shapes, anthropomorphic forms and abstract bejeweled masses. However, this new series of paintings shows a shift towards the predominance of the figure. Pombo states that “one of the characteristic aspects of my work is multiple appearances, that is, a tree that looks like a person, or a dragon or a spider, or something mutable or that has a polyvalent meaning.” Pombo allows the human figure, and not a surrogate, to be the subject of his new paintings.