Emilio Vedova, Immanente 2, lithograph, 71x50,5 cm, 1976-77, editions Poligrafa, Barcellona

Screen-printed work entitled Immanente produced in 1969-1970,

During this period Vedova produced a series of works inspired by Spain after his long journey across the Iberian Peninsula, where he deepened his knowledge of Spanish painting and the social-political situation of the years of Franco's dictatorship, also coming into contact with local intellectuals.

His intense, sanguine, almost violent art, rendered with a fast, neurotic brushstroke - which he shares with Pollock - fits well with the atmosphere of those very difficult years in Spain.

The work is completely covered with black pen strokes that fill the entire space of the representation.

This artistic act is done by dipping a brush into a bucket of paint and then violently striking the surface of the canvas, as if to suffocate the white surface with contrasting colours.

This way of painting can be analysed as the act of wanting to suffocate an unconscious made up of memory, memories and conditioning, which cannot be swept away, but are momentarily suspended, to leave room for the sensations of surprise, the unexpected and the dimension of generative memory. Thus we understand that the power of the work translates into an exorbitant force that violently searches for its form, always reaching only a precarious equilibrium.

The litograph is signed by hand in the lower left-hand corner and numbered 4/99.