Marcos Bontempo’s exhibition “Light and Dark” is at Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York through November 26. Bontempo lives and works in Andalusia; he paints on the floor using ink and salt on paper, which he prefers to canvas. “The shapes express the poor reality, the mutilation of an ill body that does not want to be forgotten by God,” he’s said of his abstracted human forms, often depicted in extremis. “I do not let them alone in their ordeal … I think I am a schizophrenic.”

Marcos Bontempo, Untitled, 2016, ink and salt on paper, 25.5″ x 19.5″.

Untitled, 2016, ink and salt on paper, 48″ x 32″.

Untitled, 2015, ink and salt on paper, 48″ x 32″.

Untitled, 2016, ink and salt on paper, 25.5″ x 19.5″.

Untitled, 2016, ink and salt on paper, 16.5″ x 12″.

Untitled, 2016, ink and salt on paper, 12″ x 8.5″.