Jerónimo Elespe: CAAC, Seville
Jerónimo Elespe’s (Madrid, 1975) work inhabits a space where silence, time, and contemplation are deeply intertwined. Through a series of paintings created specifically for the CAAC, and developed through a slow, repetitive process, the artist transforms the everyday and the domestic into an experience that is almost liturgical. His works do not reveal themselves immediately; they require close and attentive looking, inviting reflection, stillness, and sustained contemplation.
Layers, glazes, and repetition turn each painting into a palimpsest in which time gradually accumulates. Gardens, rooms, unlit lamps, and open books emerge as quiet, atmospheric presences. Architecture and everyday objects become frameworks through which to reflect on the relationship between interior and exterior, light and shadow, presence and absence.
His painting engages in dialogue with the Spanish artistic tradition—particularly the austere gravity of Zurbarán—as well as with contemporary practices rooted in repetition and introspection.
