El momento preciso. Carlos Tárdez

The days still have twenty-four hours, but their measure no longer seems sufficient. In a time dominated by haste and superficiality, the painting of Carlos Tárdez (Madrid, 1976) asserts the value of slowness, contemplation, and pause as exercises of resistance. The precise moment refers not only to the depicted instant, but to the very act of looking—a conscious exercise that demands a kind of disobedience in the face of the continuous flow of stimuli.

Tárdez proposes a reeducation of time. His images, realistic in appearance, do not seek formal exactness but emotional resonance, the point at which observation becomes thought. His works are not closed narratives, but triggers of memory. They do not tell a story; they summon its possible versions.