There are works that last for centuries; others have been created in just a minute. Abel Gómez is capable of drawing, in the blink of an eye, distinguishable strokes on paper to immortalize that fleeting pose or landscape that captures his attention. In his head, always … He is drawing a canvas, because the freshness that immediacy provides is the main characteristic of his art. It is an innate ability but one that he also trains tirelessly, since this man from Miranda firmly believes in the maxim pointed out by Pablo Picasso that it is convenient for inspiration to surprise you at work.
For this reason, there is not a single day in which Abel does not add a couple of sketches to his notebook. «Just as athletes go to the gym every day to stay in shape, the same thing happens with drawing. “If you spend a month without doing anything, when you want to start, your hand is not as agile,” he explains.
However, for his latest works he has taken more time. The exhibition that he is exhibiting until the middle of the month at La Alcoba is made up of large paintings in which he has been able to explore different techniques and in which he has worked in depth. Even so, his creativity flows faster than his hands, so he is not able to focus on a work from start to finish but has to combine several at the same time. That way he doesn’t lose the spontaneity of the ephemeral.
Eclectic and multifaceted are some of the adjectives that best define him. His art adapts to everything. As soon as he is able to draw a caricature with a pencil, he can paint a bird with watercolors or draw with a pen in three dimensions. “The techniques are like a closet in which you keep everything and take what you need at all times,” says Abel, who only has one weak point. “It is very difficult for me when I have to make something pastel, it is perhaps the thing I have worked the least on,” he confesses.
His first work still hangs on the walls of his house. He was very young and inherited his grandmother’s artistic vein. Since then, she hasn’t stopped creating. Notebooks with sketches accumulate in the rooms and he has a market where it is possible to find everything from his best paintings to sculptures. Abel exudes talent and doesn’t need much to bring it out. In mind he already has his next exhibition: a sequence of more than one hundred drawings that he made in one morning at an amateur cycling race in a town in Soria. This Miranda artist is one of those who draws with his eyes.
The problem, like that of many in the city, is that most of its prolific collection will remain unpublished forever due to lack of space to exhibit. The closure of venues and the long list at the House of Culture have local artists handcuffed. For this reason, Abel is grateful that there are places like La Alcoba, which, without being their purpose, turn the walls of their establishments into small museums. “It is an example that with love and good taste you can do very beautiful things,” he remarks. Delighted with the space, he wanted to make a special collection. “It is not the same when you exhibit in a bar, where people take a quick look, than in a place like La Alcoba where the public is predisposed to see the exhibition,” he says.
