Padawer gets closer to the borders of figuration where the subtle mechanisms of automatism (strictly, semi-automatism) brings him nearer to the realm of abstract…..The drawings of Pedro Padawer transit through depictions that border a portrait to a certain extent aseptic; reaching at the same time images with deeper context, where the faces or other anatomical parts are erased or hidden – in some way they deny themselves – the figures self-dynamize by adopting poses-concepts, they enrich the plane and conceptualize it with strength, including images on the style of a picture within a picture.
Alfredo Andrés