Scale and Perception


        Gabaskallás's paintings move through different scales, sometimes small, sometimes monumental.
        The smaller paintings are responses to the most urgent gestures, but not less affected by multiple layers of paint and superimposed brushstrokes. Monotypes, on paper or linen, often form the basis for small scale paintings, adding sudden points of interest.
        Large formats, on the other hand, generate a perception of intimacy and honesty. They allow the viewer to feel greater complicity with the work and a natural desire to get closer.
        It is this subsequent impact that interests the artist: the moment when one feels compelled to examine up close the small deviations from the initial reading, the small gestures of personality in the painting.