The White House, forest inside the house
The calm paintings created by Manu vb Tintoré are very close to abstraction. We seem to be presented with primeval landscapes. We can project many places into these misty, unknown forests and their vast green enclosures: the Amazon, the rainforests of Indonesia, perhaps. But if we observe them closely, we can detect interruptions in the pristine solitude of nature. The artist seduces us with the idea that these are unclaimed common lands. But land is always subject to power relations. In the White House, former US President Barack Obama's letter to the artist, which is written from the epicenter of world power but here is located in nature, is delimited by the tension between that which is virgin and that which is robbed.
