Genís de Diego. Trémer fins que arribi la tempesta
The Arranz-Bravo Foundation presents Tremble Until the Storm Comes, a project by Genís de Diego conceived as an exercise in pictorial experimentation, through which the artist explores the most instinctive and visceral side of his personality. The spark for this new creative state ignited during a trip to Brazil, where he began to experience a persistent tremor in his body that made drawing physically difficult. This bodily alteration, deeply linked to his emotional state, marked the beginning of an investigation into the relationship between what happens in the body and what occurs in the artistic process — an attempt to connect both dimensions in a single, instinctive flow.
This experience has led him to develop a new body of work defined by ambiguity and indeterminacy. De Diego now embraces an artistic experience that is less cerebral and more corporeal, moving away from mental control —analysis, calculation, planning— and becoming aware, in the act of creation, of the physical presence of both pleasure and pain. His paintings convey an unfiltered tension, as if the canvas became part of the body’s own sensory system for relating to the world.
Fear, pleasure, the pressure to enjoy, the vulnerability of being… all these emotional states converge in his work through painterly forms that are stammering and voluptuous: jungles, fruits, morphologies, and sonic resonances that the artist sketches, identifies, cuts, erases, and abstracts. Painting becomes a vehicle for navigating the fantasy that allows him to rethink the meaning of art and its connection to existence.
Genís de Diego (Barcelona, 1988) is a visual artist based in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. He holds a degree in Illustration from Serra i Abella School (L’Hospitalet) and a Fine Arts degree from the University of Barcelona. Since 2017, he has been part of the teaching staff at Escola d’Art Llotja (Barcelona). He has exhibited collectively at Islington Arts Factory (London, 2014), and individually at Sis Gallery in Sabadell (2016), Ethall (2022), and Espai19 (2023), among others.
