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Spain
Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 19.7 W x 29.5 H x 1.6 D in
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When I was a teenager, everyone dreamed of being a rock star. For this reason sometimes I played with my friends to take pics of ourselves in public places, wearing weird and flashy clothes. We were the MTV Generation. One day taking a look at those black and white images, I suddenly realize that they were the covers of the albums that we never made. I liked so much the concept of a past empty glory, that I decided to celebrate it with a painting. I ask my friend Pablo to pose for me and one afternoon we met up at a subway station in Madrid. He took off his shirt to put on my black furry coat. People were looking at us curiously. That afternoon I took two hundred photographs, and I was having trouble deciding the right one. Pablo, like a real rock star, sent me the one he prefer, cropped and edited as he likes. That image was just beautiful. ‘What have you done?’ is a sigh, a question and a condemnation. The portrait is not the image of a teenager playing, but of a man who has reached -maybe for a moment- a sacred eternity. Some grey brush strokes create an artificial sky. The neon lights melt into a face with an indecipherable expression. Is it a revelation? Perhaps. However, Pablo's hands are violently cut off. I like to interpret this as a punishment for doing something wrong. No paradise is possible without tasting the forbidden.
Painting:Acrylic on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:19.7 W x 29.5 H x 1.6 D in
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SUBJECTS My vision focuses on the human element and uses portraiture as a medium to develop a narrative of individuals. For this reason, most of my work deals with the concept of self-discovery: both of oneself (using mask, makeup and costumes) and others (relationships, separations and memories). Therefore, my subjects often have something unpolished and teen. They go back looking for parts of themselves that have remained incomplete or they live a moment of loneliness with dramatic intensity. They struggle with self-identity and sometimes compare themselves to others. Very often they feel they are victims of a certain hormonal euphoria and a little disappointment. They are wonderfully unstable people seeking to shape themselves. They are fragments that I use to explore my contradictions and my concerns. For a long time my work has focused on the concept of masculinity and questioning the status quo. I will continue to do so, because we still live in a society that defends a concept of masculinity that is ridiculous, obsolete and harmful. I consider figurative painting as a political instrument. STYLE More than a naturalistic style, I would define my painting as synthetic. Each canvas is a construction of the image from a carefully decontextualized set of photographic material. Most of this material is self-produced, while the rest comes from private collections or historical archives. In each piece, I like the challenge of creating a different balance between control and abstract: in some paintings I try to do a faithful reproduction while in others I give priority to the movement of the paintbrush, turning faces and bodies into a sum of spots to awaken some emotional attention from the spectator. COLOURS There is something fascinating about photographs from the 80s: those shady areas where colors have gradually given way to blue. Since I started painting I have tried to reproduce that effect by exaggerating shadows and edges. Little by little, I have added to the blue a fairly complex range of colors, always having as a reference, the aesthetics of the 80s. Today I consider color my personal terrain of exploration of the contemporary. Without giving up that blue – an almost generational sign – I look for chromatically complex compositions. In my latest pieces I have devoted much attention to yellow and pink, colors that very often represent naivety and also decadence.
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