Genaro Strobel, Snow Angel (3)

Genaro Strobel’s latest body of work features fifteen framed oil-on-wood panels that merge personal history with universal artistic inquiry. Through a process of technical and material translation, the series investigates the primordial language of early childhood.

The genesis of the works lies in an archival dialogue with a diary kept by Strobel’s mother, the entries in which cease three months after his birth. Its remaining pages were subsequently populated by the artist’s own earliest drawings. Inspired by the idea of these fundamental gestures, Strobel developed a cycle of digital drawings on his smartphone based on an intense, repetitive layering, capturing a predominantly unconditioned aesthetic. Employing his own technique, Strobel laser engraved these digital drafts into wood, creating a tactile relief that he primed and painted with oil paints. Titled 'Snow Angel', each panel incorporates the numerical designation of its underlying digital file, documenting the precise selection from this iterative process.

Strobel’s analytical yet deeply poetic approach isolates the specific, formal nuances within these elemental gestures. Refusing to romanticize his own early marks, he elevates them to a site of inquiry. Rooted in these early drawings, this dense, urgent expansion of the expression carves out a distinct direction for this series.

Ultimately, this body of work marks a transition from an initial, primordial impulse toward a cohesive aesthetic distillation. The panels evolve a precise visual articulation from these early drawings.