The Miguel Marcos Gallery invites you to immerse yourself in the exhibition "Dots for Pop" by Toni Sánchez (Valencia, 1965). He exhibits for the first time in Barcelona, ​​after the recent participation in ARCOMadrid 2018 with the Miguel Marcos Gallery.

The artist discovers Pop Art in the United States where he learns the techniques of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He receives first hand the influences of the movement in the American creation. The artistic career of Toni Sánchez explores the meticulous Ben-Day technique, typical of the Pop Art style, but reinterpreted in its own way.

The Ben-Day technique was introduced historically in 1879, by the illustrator Benjamin Henry Day, reaching an international projection for the massive use in the graphic industry of the mid-twentieth century. Geometry is essential when using this technique, which consists of combining and overlaying colors, without mixing them, to achieve a specific optical effect.

The historical artists of the Pop Art movement used large-scale printing machinery, while Toni Sánchez made his artworks with brushstrokes full of precision, reinventing this artistic genre.

The canvases of the series "Dots for Pop" are visual, attractive and easily identifiable. The current exhibition includes some of the artist's most iconic paintings, which dazzle for the perfection of the pairing of acrylic and enamel. The canvases capture the viewer in the magnetism of the perfection of points and lines, which converge in complex portraits and everyday scenarios.

On an infinite variety of subjects, because, according to Toni Sánchez "everything is likely to be 'popartized'", the humor and the irony of the artist draw the attention of the public.

The work of Toni Sánchez is a combination of ideas, concepts and influences that forge the personal style of painting of the artist, derived from an artistic current that draws on popular culture.