"Richard Heller Gallery is pleased to present, Planet Circus, a new exhibition of paintings by Granada, Spain-based artist, Paco Pomet. The show brings together recent works that reaffirm the artist's distinctive approach to contemporary figuration, combining technical precision with humor, irony, and subtle narrative disruption. Pomet's paintings are grounded in a realist language that feels almost immediately accessible. Carefully constructed scenes, convincingly rendered figures, and controlled compositions establish a sense of familiarity that is quickly undermined by unexpected visual twists."
"In Ring a Ring o' Roses, trees in a forest clearing hold hands in a circular formation. The image evokes the innocence of a children's game, yet its stillness carries an uncanny weight. The forest becomes a collective body, bound together in a ritual whose purpose remains ambiguous. As in many of Pomet's previous works, nature is not a neutral backdrop but an active agent, endowed with intentions and emotions that mirror human fragility and complicity."
Planet Circus presents recent paintings by Paco Pomet that merge precise realist technique with sly humor and unsettling visual transformations. Carefully composed scenes and convincingly rendered figures establish familiarity that Pomet subverts through anthropomorphism, metamorphosis, and narrative slippage. Trees, soldiers, and diners become active agents, performing rituals that blur human and natural boundaries and expose dependency, conflict, and self-consuming behavior. Works such as Ring a Ring o' Roses, Cease-fire, and The Dinner oscillate between dark comedy and the grotesque, using irony as critical tool and fostering ambiguous, emotionally charged encounters within contemporary figuration and disruptive realism.
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