Germán Portal is a painter who focus his work on an exhaustive exploration of the act of painting nowadays. To this effect, the artist uses two complementary strategies.

On the one hand, a fake lack of style which allows him to release himself from the authoritarian burden of the gesture and to experiment unabashedly. On the other hand, he has a fixation about categorized periods in the history of painting, for instance the Twentieth-century Avant-garde Art Movements, the Baroque or the Italian Renaissance. So, his artwork freely travels through the historiography of art, retrieving those aspects that he considers more interesting to be confronted to the present from a formal rigour that becomes, in turn, a discursive position. It’s an exercise of Art demythologizing where the imitation, the sense of humour and the misunderstanding work as systems of reinterpretation of the pictorial tradition. In short, it is a conceptual revision that fantasizes about new approaches, interpretations and functionality of painting through an uninhibited attitude: subtle, veiled and almost invisible parody.