Enrique Veganzones (b. 1965, Madrid) lives and works in a small town on the southeastern coast of Spain. He holds degrees in Social Work (1988), and Fine Arts (1997) from Universidad Complutense, Madrid (painting, with honors), and a Diploma in Advanced Studies and PhD courses from the School of Philosophy, Universidad de Murcia.

He is a recipient of residencies at Art House Holland (Leiden, The Netherlands), the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (Thread, Senegal), and the National Trust of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia).

His artistic practice revolves around a quest for the inexpressible, the reality that transcends the merely visible. That which demands to activate a different perception open to intuition. This interest focuses on the importance of the symbol as an evocative force in the everyday. Its presence, manifested in a layered arrangement of the temporal course of experience, is associated in Veganzones’s work with the trace of the past in processes, materials, and procedures. The use of traditional techniques like stucco, gilding and egg tempera, must be considered not so much as a revival of old methods, but for the laborious and slow processes that they entail. These procedures ultimately tame will: time enables outcomes that have far more to do with the density of what we experience and create, rather than with the simple measurement of time and effort.

Veganzones explores the presence of number in his series, drawing inspiration from Jung’s assertion that “number should be understood not merely as a construct of consciousness but also as a factor existing a priori in outer and inner nature.” Number functions as an organizing agent within structures, enabling unplanned concatenations, confluences, and proportions of symmetries and contrasts. These repetitions and pulsations mirror human physical rhythms such as breathing, heartbeats, and blinking. For Veganzones, these unconscious numerical patterns resonate with the very act of drawing, transforming it into an evolving state of consciousness.