De Nijverheid / De Tunnel / Jaime González Palencia – OTHER RUSTY SHINES
De Nijverheid / De Tunnel / Jaime González Palencia – OTHER RUSTY SHINES
Jaime González Palencia (Mallorca, 1997) is a visual artist with a Master's degree from the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen. He focuses on figurative painting, expanded through digital archives, collage, and mixed media. Through a fragmented visual language, he explores how images circulate, acquire new meanings, and become embedded in historical or personal narratives. Drawn to the tension between technique and spontaneity, Jaime constructs his works as open systems where classical painting references, digital aesthetics, and ornamental elements intersect.
He has collaborated with spaces such as Fran Reus (Palma), Lapislázuli Gallery (Madrid), and Noord Galerie (Groningen), and has exhibited at international art fairs including Supermarket Art Fair (Stockholm) and FARRA (Elvas). His work has developed through residencies and research projects focused on art history, visual memory, and the cross-pollination between art and natural sciences.
And Other Rusty Shines explores how obsolete visual systems—dusty, ornamental, and often absurd—continue to shape how we organize and perceive the world. Through painting and mixed media, it draws from the chaotic, encyclopedic structure of the 'Wunderkammer', reinvented as a method to navigate our algorithmic present.
'Wunderkammers'—proto-museums crammed with exotic objects and fictional artifacts—brought order to the unknown through spectacle. In our contemporary visual culture, similar strategies reemerge in the circulation of found images, symbolic debris, and visual excess. The works blur the boundary between craft and archival data. Banners on coarse weave, taxonomic diagrams, altered landscapes transferred onto stone, and strange still lifes form a visual collage in which history glows in an unstable, 'rusty shine'.
Jaime González Palencia (Mallorca, 1997) is a visual artist with a Master's degree from the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen. He focuses on figurative painting, expanded through digital archives, collage, and mixed media. Through a fragmented visual language, he explores how images circulate, acquire new meanings, and become embedded in historical or personal narratives. Drawn to the tension between technique and spontaneity, Jaime constructs his works as open systems where classical painting references, digital aesthetics, and ornamental elements intersect.
He has collaborated with spaces such as Fran Reus (Palma), Lapislázuli Gallery (Madrid), and Noord Galerie (Groningen), and has exhibited at international art fairs including Supermarket Art Fair (Stockholm) and FARRA (Elvas). His work has developed through residencies and research projects focused on art history, visual memory, and the cross-pollination between art and natural sciences.
And Other Rusty Shines explores how obsolete visual systems—dusty, ornamental, and often absurd—continue to shape how we organize and perceive the world. Through painting and mixed media, it draws from the chaotic, encyclopedic structure of the 'Wunderkammer', reinvented as a method to navigate our algorithmic present.
'Wunderkammers'—proto-museums crammed with exotic objects and fictional artifacts—brought order to the unknown through spectacle. In our contemporary visual culture, similar strategies reemerge in the circulation of found images, symbolic debris, and visual excess. The works blur the boundary between craft and archival data. Banners on coarse weave, taxonomic diagrams, altered landscapes transferred onto stone, and strange still lifes form a visual collage in which history glows in an unstable, 'rusty shine'.
Translated automatically ·
