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Born in Madrid, Baruc was raised in a home overlooking the 17th Century Plaza Mayor. As a child, he was surrounded by artwork created by his father, an acclaimed painter, and other family possessions, including his grandmother’s crystal chandelier - objects which inspired and nurtured his imaginative life.
Years later, Baruc moved back to his childhood home in Plaza Mayor, where, during the night, he painted shadows cast by the family chandelier. He mixed oils and pigments, experimenting as an alchemist, with no aim or preconceived idea of form or representation.
Baruc calls these paintings “JiGen paintings”, referring to his Zen name (Baruc is a Zen meditation practitioner), “because this form of painting is the pure expression of the self: there is no mind involved in it”.
A continuum of personal artistic evolution, his works have been described as soul paintings or shamanic paintings. However Baruc refers to them as “shadow paintings”, where he abandons every intent to let manifestation happen, “because in painting shadows, the Real emerges.”
JiGen #1, oil & pigments on canvas, 99x67 cm
JiGen #1, oil&pigments on canvas, 99x67 cm
JiGen #22, oil & pigments & marble powder on canvas, 114x162 cm
JiGen #22, oil & pigments & marble powder on canvas, 114x162 cm
JiGen #18, oil & pigments & marble powder on canvas, 115x165 cm
JiGen #18, oil & pigments & marble powder on canvas, 115x165 cm
JiGen #21, oil & pigments & marble powder on canvas, 114x162 cm
JiGen #21, oil & pigments & marble powder on canvas, 114x162 cm
Jigen #15, oil & pigments on canvas, 117x81 cm
Jigen #15, oil & pigments on canvas, 117x81 cm
Jigen #2, oil & pigments on canvas, 110x110 cm
Jigen #2, oil & pigments on canvas, 110x110 cm
JiGen #3, watercolour & acrylic on paper, 105x75 cm
JiGen #3, watercolour & acrylic on paper, 105x75 cm
JiGen #17, oil & pigments & newspaper collage on canvas, 122x71 cm
JiGen #17, oil & pigments & newspaper collage on canvas, 122x71 cm