Lucas Aguirre’s first international exhibition. A painter whose VR worlds carry the same passion and sensibility as his canvases, exploring a new hybrid language where the splatter of real paint and the trace of the pencil merge with reimagined scanned bodies.
For Aguirre, the trip between painting and virtual reality is a continuous dance. He jumps from theatrical 3D-scanned models to oil paint strokes to final composition in VR, and back again. The loop runs both ways: he also prints images captured from his virtual worlds and paints directly over them, folding digital output back into physical gesture. The frenetic leaps between ideas and mediums reveal a passionate exploration of digital tools. The results are worlds that demand to be inhabited and felt fully, complex environments that still carry the unique trace of the human hand.
The physical works presented are a dynamic series of horizons, merging figures filled with intricate details and dense movement. These large compositions prepare the ground for the VR component: a boundless white void with a single spiritual entity and a soundscape by Franco Bellavita. In this series, Aguirre explores the constant tension of instability. We see a dematerialization of matter, of reality. Emotions become visible, wildly emanating through the air. It is the feeling of standing at a precipice—everything on the verge of collapse and renewal at once, an infinite moment charged with the raw excitement of whatever comes next.
A frail equilibrium, a dematerialization of matter and reality. The beauty of weakness at the moment before collapse.
The gallery walls held large-scale giclée prints while visitors explored the VR component in the centre of the room. Installation photographs by Mike Patten.
