an abstract photo of a curved building with a blue sky in the background

Elequent worlds have been lost

The works in this exhibition are based on the idea that plastic representation is the result of a personal cosmology. The experience of the landscape is the starting point from which the observer's identity is shaped, making the images a script for individual sensitivity and a model for understanding reality. The works are multifaceted perspectives on what is seen but they are also agents of change since observing and thinking about the landscape is also acting on it and as a result, they produce something new that did not exist before. The fascination of the work of art is this vision of individuality about the world, unrepeatable, unique and full of symbolism.

Sudden silence

Mixed media on canvas

400 x 140 cm

The works in "Ageless in the Raw" series started in 2022 and are related to the dynamic quality of the landscape and the perpetuation of its regeneration through a timeless matrix, that exposes to our eyes a vitality that constantly changes everything. Diving into the hyper-reality of an extensive context, results in a lot of information entering our senses, different from what we are used to in everyday life in cities. Living in a clean and lucid state of mind, within a natural landscape, are factors that amplify sensations, providing unique experiences of excruciating clarity, the result is a great activity of the imagination, which for these reasons, runs in many directions, leaving the feeling that there are more things under the sun than one suspects, this is another important point in the “Ageless in the Raw” series - seeing the world as an immense overlap of layers that dynamically mix in an internal osmosis - something that had to do with the raw landscape, where the human frame is missing. The raw state of the landscape highlights this void and the reaction is to fill it with an overvaluation of the dramatic charge, mythical facets that symbolized the action of telluric beings imprisoned in the primordial elements, characters that, although not visible, express themselves in the shadows of tangible things, as it happens in the presence of a certain group of trees along a waterline, the crunch of rocks, dancing flames of a forest fire or the roar of water through the polished stones of streams, simulating whispers and voices - I was interpreting organization and vitality of the natural world as being the result of the intervention of a supra-real entity, beyond reach in the sense of being on another level or in another dimension.

The symbols that interested me in “Ageless in the Raw” were for me the representation of primordial elements such as air, fire, earth and water. Wherever I looked, I found them in several versions and different forms, with an immense plasticity and representing a disturbing and at the same time fascinating fact - everything that existed was composed of basic elements grouped in a certain way that evolved - from In a very simplistic way, this cosmic dynamic defined the motif and contours of my aesthetic interest - the internal pulse of the landscape - it was a scenario that was basically in a process of change, with roots in the distant past and that would possibly remain, even until after the human race disappeared from the face of the Earth. From my point of view, and from what I was able to see, it was fascinating to watch the “metamorphosis of the pseudo-eternal”, which included any plasticity that could be imagined. Despite appearing inert, there was energy pulsing, immobility was an illusion because on another level there was movement and change that represented the action of an organizing agent that had been acting forever and its matrix was impregnated in every particle of that scenario.

Greenery beyond reach

Mixed media on canvas

280 x 200 cm

A manwho sees himself in the East

Mixed media on canvas

300 x 138 cm

Ageless in the raw #10

Mixed media on canvas

300 x 150 cm

"My realistic view of the landscape seems to be reshaping itself with this place. The chimera lies in the outline of appearances, mythological and timeless. I found an enigma that gave me a name—"Solitude Canyon."

Without knowing how, in the days following my discovery, I wanted to give substance to the idea by making some attempts on the white canvases, a work that always fell short of what I wanted, but now things have changed, I feel that the concept has matured, there is a model in my memory, I have a clear notion of it with its outline of what is raw and ageless. I just close my eyes and I automatically feel transported there, and from then on, things work out. I revive the moments of lying on the ground surrounded by grass, face up watching the movement of the clouds in the sky. Lulled by the illusion that I'm in a stone canoe gliding through a green sea. Even as I imagine the situation, I notice new things that pop up in my mind, as if they materialize according to the mood of the day."

Maelstrom #1

Mixed media on canvas

190 x 140 cm

Solitude canyon #3

Mixed media on canvas

280 x 200 cm

Solitude canyon #1

Mixed media on canvas

120 x 160 cm

Solitude canyon #11

Mixed media on paper

280 x 200 cm

"There is now a fascination in every detail of the landscape that enters my mental archive, there is a desire in it, a desire to unwrap the surprise and feel the information being registered in an incredibly detailed way, the filigree spreading through the senses to become part of my legacy. The act of observing and recording the landscape calls an alter-ego that is there to wake on these occasions. When he takes control and makes decisions, things work, he does diligent work while the rest remains numb."

Landscape, a space of experience

"In most cases, the images represents dubious pieces of land with a paradox in them, the landscapes don't exist the way they are represented, however they seem familiar to me, something special - like a symbol of a total journey, something that has its own identity, and somehow, related to the whole experience of beeing there.
Representing the landscape is a mental synthesis that comes from the way the territory is understood, which largely depends on what is learned in the open space. Dynamic perception tends to organize itself into several layers, related not only on what is seen, but also on what is felt during the time we are moving."

"When I started this series of works I was focused on the mythologies of the forest, of how over time pagan beliefs had created stories about the influence of these scattered elements on people's lives. Now I'm interested in the plasticity of the landscape as a manifestation of this energy that permanently readjusts the balances of nature, I'm not exactly looking for a static image that represents a particular scenario, the aspect I try to represent is more transitory, it's the state of change that constantly occurs in front of me.

In my works, the plastic content focuses on the observation of how sites change over time, on the visual expression of how differences occur, on how the concept happens to those who observe the detail. Formally, the paintings are a synthetic expression of several levels of information, but in the first place they result from the transposition of the concept of evolution and change that we observe in the natural world, so the movement and the passage of time in the landscape become the most important aspects of this theme"

Hermitage #8

Mixed media on paper

300 x 140 cm

After osmosis with the landscape

Mixed media on paper

90 x 135 cm

Walking the land #2

Mixed media on paper

142,5 x 92 cm

Inner glowing #1

Mixed media on paper

100 x 120,5 cm

The paintings do not exist isolated from each other, they exist in a constellation and the proximity between them depends on how they evolve from one to the other. This evolution occurs because normally the common thread from which they are made is not interrupted, finishing a work does not mean that the theme has been exhausted."

"The themes are sets in which there is a continuity of elements that make the bridge from one work to another, they are lines of force that have to do with what one seeks to represent, with the latent impressions of an experience that are parts of a vocabulary, traits of similarity that little by little form a matrix that runs through this entire constellation and will embody each of the themes.