"The pleaser " Pedro Mainman.

“La galerie pathétique” serie. (2018)
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
81 cm x 100 cm

"What drives the person to make everybody happy beyond their own happiness ?".

Mainman uses the human figure as a means to criticize contemporary ideas about racial, sexual and social identity, emphasizing both the physical reality of the human body and its psychological value.
All the works in this "galerie pathétique" reflect the fusion between the vulnerability of the portrayed and that of the painter himself.
They represent the hero inside each human being, still standing, still strong after the battle (each person´s struggles in life, the whole life adventure in itself)... We can intuit that something radical has happened in the lives of the characters but they remain standing with dignity, as finding beauty and strength in their own drama.