When we talk about emerging art, we often think of the first steps artists take toward establishing themselves. In the case of Francisco Góngora Cervera (Gonce), the time has come to look at his work from a new perspective, now that the resilient origins of his beginnings are behind him: an artistic genesis situated in a fortuitous circumstance that led him to a sedentary lifestyle and, consequently, to the start of a creative process from which his first two exhibitions emerged, built on spontaneity and, probably, the drive to seek more than one answer.
But some time has passed since the journey that led him to that unplanned production, and now the young painter has paused. He has chosen to define a direction, a path that, still under construction, is already a personal route with its own distinctive mark, backed by an unwavering conviction.
What is the structure of his "Roadmap"? What comes next in his trajectory? Let's try an analogy between the creative vision and the path ahead, where the young work is the result of an imaginative assimilation process that shapes a new series of pieces strongly interwoven with one another, each responding to its own unique logic.
As a young artist, Gonce faces the urgency of finding himself and defining his creative identity, along with the fear of inevitable improvisation. He himself confesses to having experienced "imposter syndrome." But what is striking is that, in times of such diverse expressions, where conceptual art, non-objective manifestations, and installations predominate, there are young people who continue to explore alternatives within the infinitude of painting, albeit in its less figurative forms. Likewise, Gonce chooses the technique of oil on canvas, a material whose unctuous texture and prolonged drying time allow him to make corrections and contemplate his evolving work. One might think that the pause required by oil painting is also a time the artist gives himself to reflect on his subsequent interventions in the work and, perhaps, on his own artistic and personal journey.
