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After years of seeking absolute minimalism and focusing on a plain, spotless and sleek finish that brought his work closer to the most austere ideas of color and shape, Manolo Ballesteros style is evolving towards a more soulful abstraction.

A stroke is the evidence of the hand of the artist, a mark of a physical movement made over the surface of a painting and, that together, compose the whole of an artwork. This mark-making process is now a key factor for Manolo's artistic practice that, from a very personal search -now in the maturity of his career- wanted a change of narrative and was …