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For over twenty years, Pepe Vives has worked primarily as a painter. Presently, he has devoted himself to pictorial transformation of printed imagery: photographs, newspapers, and magazines. Vives endows transitory and evanescent images with the auratic presence of an icon, freely playing off sacred connotations.
“...I scarcely could discern the face that in halcyon days
set my foolish heart aflutter...”