Galería Tomás March is proud to present the latest work by the artist José Ramón Amondarain (San Sebastian, 1964).

With work in the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid, the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation in Amsterdam and collections including Endesa, Banco de España, Fundación la Caixa, Artium Museum in Vitoria, C.A.M. in Alicante and Fundación Chirivella-Soriano in Valencia, Amondarain is a mid-career artist with a solid reputation, pushing the possibilities and recourses of painting to the limit, addressing issues concerning the representation of painting, the form and material of painting, photography transformed by painting, and painting executed with industrial methods on canvas.

In this untitled exhibition, Amondarain proposes a rereading of the work of art as such. Taking works by artists like Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Nan Goldin, Jorge Oteiza, Txomin Badiola, Pablo Palazuelo and Douglas Gordon as his starting point, he then makes a singular reworking of them, asking us rethink our preconceptions on such staple questions as copying and its long tradition.

The works on show here come from several different series made throughout 2006 and 2007, in which Amondarain plays with the authorship of the pieces and their varying functions. Though featuring some of the works recently seen in “Sin fin. Islaren isla” at the Koldo Mitxelena cultural centre in San Sebastian this exhibition is fully rounded in its own right.

As he himself puts it, “it is a humble work in which a minimum nuance can totally change the original”. Amondarain maintains an open-ended dialogue with the artists he reinterprets, recreating their works, expanding their reach or inventing new perspectives. In some cases he creates new spaces, while in others he duplicates the image to be able to speak of the different and the similar. Always with something new to say, Amondarain paints and sculpts from the copy towards another new original.