Vaquero sets out to study the appearance and surface of various objects, altering their textures, exposing their opacity and shine, and reflecting his experiments in large-format, hyper-realistic drawings. Progressively, these household objects leave behind their nature as models and become art pieces in and of their own right, acquiring a complexity wrapped by the halo of their unique transformations.

Vaquero presents The End of Appearances in two different physical spaces, accounts or fictions in which nine objects are covered in a golden, radiant skin that is itself sculptural – a standalone material independent from the actual works. The scattered objects form a sort of living habitat, but sadly their radiance and vitality is destroyed by a dark, tar-like material which consumes them from within, like a deadly virus. The decomposition acquires a particular sense of beauty as seen through the eyes of the artist.

After two years of experimenting with these pieces, Vaquero created a dozen large-format drawings recording these unsettling scenes, evoking what might be described as a technological archaeology on objects condemned to vanish in subtle and phantasmagoric ways.

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