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.AND