08/13/2026
Opening | REVOLVER HTX
Vicente Grondona
Ballads of light
Friday, August 14
7 PM
Well, what does it mean
Those lights?
I’m here to see those lights.
Arthur Russell & Allen Ginsberg
Inhabited by spectral figures, Vicente Grondona’s universe unfolds through landscapes of unsettling ambiguity. His characters seem suspended between emergence and disappearance, while horses, lovers, flowers, and forests resist any explicit narrative.
His painting enters into dialogue with Impressionism, academic painting, Pointillism, and naturalistic drawing, only to fracture them from within. Technical refinement gives way to a wild, almost shamanic search, where pigment, light, and gesture become instruments for invoking the invisible.
Grondona is also a singular sculptor. Working with charcoal, he transforms the residue of fire into primitive faces and bodies. The material preserves both the trace of the tree and the memory of its burning, giving rise to an archaeology of the present where the human figure emerges from darkness.
Across painting and sculpture, Grondona returns us to something elemental: the body, the landscape, fire, and the mysterious force of matter.
His work does not explain itself. It continues to pulse in the half-light.
Rafael Toriz
