Pablo TOMEK MM 10 - 2016 Acrylic on canvas Signed, titled and dated on the back 170 x 150 cm Acrylic on canvas; signed, titled and dated on the reverse 66,92 x 59,05 in. Provenance: Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris Acquired directly from the latter by the current owner FR In his gestural paintings, Pablo Tomek mixes the techniques and imagery of graffiti with the formal qualities of abstract expressionism. A self-taught artist, Pablo Tomek started out as a graffiti artist with the PAL collective, before turning to studio painting. He creates his large-scale paintings using industrial sponges to apply layers of paint in broad strokes, using a pressure washer to leave watery traces of colour in a process that embodies the spontaneity and physicality involved in street art and AbEx. Tomek appropriates the aesthetic features of the urban landscape, highlighting graffiti tags, spray-paint marks made by utility workers and traces of wheat-pasted posters that are usually whitewashed in the process of urban renewal or gentrification. AT In his gestural paintings, Pablo Tomek blends the techniques and imagery of graffiti with the formal qualities of abstract expressionism. A self-taught artist, Pablo Tomek started out as a graffiti artist with the PAL collective, before turning to studio painting. He creates his large-scale paintings using industrial sponges to apply layers of paint in broad strokes, using a pressure washer to leave watery traces of colour in a process that embodies the spontaneity and physicality involved in street art and AbEx. Tomek appropriates the aesthetic characteristics of the urban landscape, highlighting graffiti tags, spray-paint marks made by utility workers and traces of wheat-pasted posters that are usually whitewashed in the process of urban renovation or gentrification. Pablo TOMEK FR In his gestural paintings, Pablo Tomek mixes the techniques and imagery of graffiti with the formal qualities of abstract expressionism. A self-taught artist, Pablo Tomek started out as a graffiti artist with the PAL collective, before turning to studio painting. He creates his large-scale paintings using industrial sponges to apply layers of paint in broad strokes, using a pressure washer to leave watery traces of colour in a process that embodies the spontaneity and physicality involved in street art and AbEx. Tomek appropriates the aesthetic features of the urban landscape, highlighting graffiti tags, spray-paint marks made by utility workers and traces of wheat-pasted posters that are usually whitewashed in the process of urban renewal or gentrification. AT In his gestural paintings, Pablo Tomek blends the techniques and imagery of graffiti with the formal qualities of abstract expressionism. A self-taught artist, Pablo Tomek started out as a graffiti artist with the PAL collective, before turning to studio painting. He creates his large-scale paintings using industrial sponges to apply layers of paint in broad strokes, using a pressure washer to leave watery traces of colour in a process that embodies the spontaneity and physicality involved in street art and AbEx. Tomek appropriates the aesthetic characteristics of the urban landscape, highlighting graffiti tags, spray-paint marks made by utility workers and traces of wheat-pasted posters that are usually whitewashed in the process of urban renovation or gentrification.