Double Standard 17 presents a frontal human figure stripped of conventional facial identity, transforming the portrait into an enigmatic object of contemplation. Its elongated nose, simplified features, and textured surface recall the visual language of ancient sculpture while remaining distinctly contemporary. The contrast between the warm, weathered tones of the face and the cool blue-gray hair creates a restrained yet compelling visual tension. Rather than describing a specific individual, this Figurative Drawing focuses attention on representation itself, inviting the viewer to consider how historical forms, beauty, and identity can be reinterpreted through a contemporary artistic language.
 
The more transcendental the representation, the more it tends to evoke it through its prodigies. Such is the case of the Double standard series in the words of the artist "It is a process of visual archeology through a search for human representations conditioned by their ritual, aesthetic or utilitarian meaning where a resignification of beauty patterns is proposed, a game with female representation with its multiple meanings, functions and forms”
James Bonachea combines the same motif separated by different forms of representation. The double standard announces a double reading of the original meaning of an image, a polysemic game of signifiers. Doble standard's proposal is an artisan of artisans: it summarizes the wisdom of concretism in time through the human figure and the object as a poetic expression of the time in which Bonachea's works take place.
 
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