Marcelo Fuentes Spain, b. 1955

Marcelo Fuentes has been devoted to painting since the 1970s, developing a practice grounded in atmosphere, material, and the quiet construction of space. Over time, his work has moved away from description toward something more distilled, where abstraction carries the emotional weight of the image. Human figures never appear. Instead, Fuentes creates contemplative compositions, from floral studies to imagined environments, inviting the viewer to enter alone. His paintings unfold slowly, offering spaces that feel intimate yet open, where form softens into mood and colour becomes a way of holding memory.

Fuentes' surfaces are built through layers of paint that soften edges and mute perspective, encouraging a slower way of looking. These are environments shaped as much by memory as by observation, where atmosphere replaces narrative and silence becomes part of the composition. Flowers emerge not as decorative subjects but as states of being, suspended between presence and disappearance. Petals dissolve into colour, forms blur into light, and what remains is a feeling rather than an image. Each work holds a gentle tension between structure and release, allowing the viewer to linger in moments that feel both fragile and grounded, where painting becomes less about representation and more about quiet attention.

Fuentes paints spaces that resist definition. His works ask for time rather than explanation, offering moments of stillness where landscape becomes feeling, and painting becomes a way of inhabiting uncertainty with calm attention.