Selected Artist — Open Call 2026
About
Enrique Veganzones (b. 1965, Madrid) is an artist whose practice revolves around a quest for the inexpressible — the reality that transcends the merely visible, demanding the activation of a different perception open to intuition.
His interest focuses on the importance of the symbol as an evocative force in the everyday, manifested in a layered arrangement of the temporal course of experience, associated in his work with the trace of the past in processes, materials, and procedures.
Veganzones explores the presence of number, 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 organising agent within structures, enabling unplanned concatenations, confluences, and proportions of symmetries and contrasts — repetitions and pulsations that mirror human physical rhythms. For him, these unconscious numerical patterns resonate with the very act of drawing, transforming it into an evolving state of consciousness.
Selected works
20250510 — gold leaf & egg tempera on wood panel, 34 × 21 cm
20251206 — gold leaf & egg tempera on wood panel, 34 × 21 cm
20251207 — gold leaf & egg tempera on wood panel, 34 × 21 cm
20260215 — silver leaf & egg tempera on wood panel, 34 × 21 cm
20251007-02 — pencil on found paper, 31.5 × 27.8 cm
20251009-04 — pencil on old photo album card, 17.7 × 25.4 cm
20250601 — pencil on paper found in Tbilisi (Georgia), 28.5 × 22 cm
Q & A
Is geometry a constraint or a freedom for you — and has that answer ever changed?
Geometry is the language I speak and the most effective way I have found to express what interests me. I do not experience it as either a constraint or a freedom. Rather, it is the only possible path between my way of thinking and my artistic practice.
Walk us through your process — where does a piece begin, and how do you know it's finished?
A piece often begins with an observation of the mental structures that underlie many of my thoughts. I am also interested in finding personal ways to respond to concepts that I cannot fully understand, or perhaps can never fully grasp. Language and semiotics play an important role in this process as well, shaping how ideas are translated into visual form.
What does a viewer miss when they see your work as 'just geometry'?
I believe there are two ways of approaching a work of art: through aesthetic experience and through rational reflection. Both interest me, and I care that my work allows for an aesthetic engagement while at the same time raising conceptual questions.
