R.U.U.E. 5 - Las Lomas | The Fantastic Fourbes | CMYKRGBW

Oil portraits of four recurring members of the Forbes list are presented as contemporary symbols of the political and economic power that currently holds the techniques upon which our cultural spectrum is built.

What makes these hyperrealist paintings special is that the artist produced them by emulating the execution technique that would have been followed by a machine, as an experiment and without any prior knowledge of painting technique. Víctor Enrich calculated the chromatic spectrum of each of the points of the original photograph, first using digital processes and by means of a measuring instrument that took the amount of paint necessary to produce the required tone. You can see how the technique improves between the first (Mark Zuckerberg) and fourth (Warren Buffett) attempts. Two more works by Víctor Enrich will complement this paradoxical relationship in which the artist places himself in front of the machine: a physical cube showing the chromatic correlation required to paint these pictures, emulating the graphics used by programs such as Photoshop, and museum renderings that place them in impossible spaces, acting as an architectural parasite in other neighbourhoods of the city.

Credits

R.U.U.E. 5, Las Lomas
3D infographic on digital photography, 2015

The Fantastic Fourbes
Oil on DM, 2018

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Sculpture (wood, fishing line, acrylic paint on foam and plastic), 2026
Collaborators for the sculpture: Margarida García Torre and Joan Martínez Chacón

Víctor Enrich

Víctor Enrich lives and works in Àger. Born in Barcelona, he is an architect, visual artist, painter and permaculturist. In 1998 he began a career in 3D architectural visualisation for studios and institutions in Barcelona. In 2008, as a result of the crisis, he left this activity to create personal digital images in which he transforms architecture into unusual contexts. In 2018 he delved into oil painting, with a style close to hyperrealism. Since 2024 he has been living in Àger (Noguera), where he promotes a rural regeneration project based on permaculture.

www.victorenrich.com