Surpassed horizon
Finisterra experience series #1
SKU 948
Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions 205 x 120 cm
This painting is related to the ocean and the artist's experience with the beach. The fluid forms evoke the cyclical movements of water and tides. The universe of colors is related to the open horizon where land and sea sometimes merge, and where the boundary between them is a diffuse limit that can be anywhere, especially on days when the morning mist makes everything incorporeal. Memory plays an important role in this work, as in so many others, bringing dreamlike elements to the composition that evoke an experience that over time evolved into a more symbolic than representative representation.
About The “Finisterra experience” series.
The experience with the ocean was remarkable, but that doesn't mean that the result that came with the painting had to do only with this, because the works of that time, had a dramatic charge that in reality didn't exist there, which most likely had its origins in the myths and epics related to sea voyages. In these stories there was always a strong link with the cosmic forces that had the power to change the destiny of men. The landscape could be two things at the same time: a setting where nature manifested its beauty, filling memories with the experience of the beach, and in a more dramatic dimension, a darker side, hidden from our eyes and that had been built up over centuries of a difficult relationship, in which the sea embodied the brutal forces of nature that always inspired great fear. History usually tells the story from the perspective of survivors and heroes, but there were others who were victims of the elements, shipwrecked on endless voyages, who somehow left a darker and more sinister record of these adventures and who later, through the hands of poets and writers, became important pieces of literature. These stories, as in the case of The Lusíadas, recounted the maritime saga from the perspective of the simple and courageous people who gave their bodies to the manifesto in an unequal fight, bold guys who came out of hell with a story to tell.
👉🏻Read more about this theme in “Context ” section - Idealization about factual events - or go to Channel section and see the video “ Finisterra experience”.