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Begonia
Santa Cecilia |
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My
paintings depict shapes that resemble stems, leaves, grasses, trunks
and other parts of plants formed through a combination of divergent
representational strategies, These are a mixture of expresionist and
minimalistic procedures: flat backgrounds, restriction of colors, fragmentary
compositions, dramatical close-ups, unnatural light contrasts. Brought
together they create a tension between emotion and restraint, chaos
and order, dynamism and stillness, chance and purpose, excess and emptiness.
Departing from an ironic revision of these two opposed pictorial traditions,
I intend to create images with a value of their own. For instance, In
the last series, I depict chaotic overlappings of lines filled with
color over a flat, dark background. The lines occupy one third of a
vertical, person-size like canvas. The process is crucial: over the
mochromatic color surface, lines are scratched in an intuitive and rapid
way. Once the painting is dry, the thin furrows are painted individually
and meticulously. The lines are thus painted twice, using two different
and opposed procedures. By meticulously filling the trace left by an
intuitive gesture, I emphasize the artificiality inherent in both ways
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