Floating Ranch

In 2006, after eight years without exhibiting in Argentina, Marcelo Pombo showed "Eight paintings and one object" at the Ruth Benzacar art gallery in Buenos Aires, including "Rancho flotante". Made by means of the meticulous technique of drop on drop and, sometimes, with a sweep that mixes the color in a marshy way, these images result in landscapes and scenes that are sometimes costumbrist and, at other times, abstract. In "Rancho flotante" there are references to science fiction -a constant in the artist's production-, since the ranch can be, at the same time, a spaceship made of branches, beads and tassels sighted in a horizon or the most austere and romanticized dwelling of the Argentine territory made fantasy from misery.