Primavera

Spring

Spring

Serie: Large Format Artworks
Technique: Latex on canvas
Size: 90 x 130 cm
Year: 2007

 

 

At the beginning of spring 2007 I wanted to represent this change of season so renovating, with a painting that in a few simple strokes was able to insinuate the spirit of renewal and flowering that characterizes it, in a creative process that for me was like a musical improvisation .

Detaching from a dark background with nocturnal and sharp hues, as it is the end of winter, ethereal, luminous and orange are drawn, the color of energy, some anthropomorphic leaves and flowers, as if it were a mask that slowly materializes, still incomplete and indefinite, but with an intuitive presence full of new aromas.

 

 

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Dragones

Dragons

Dragons

Serie: Large Format Artworks
Technique: Latex on canvas
Size: 90 x 130 cm
Year: 2007

 

 

This work was born from my great admiration for the artist Ciruelo Cabral, whom I had planned to honor for a long time, reproducing some of his mythical dragons. 

The idea of the composition, which integrates the quote to two dragons from Ciruelo to the semi-hidden face of a woman, was generated after a very violent situation that I went through in my work, and that I was not only forced to keep quiet and hide, but also that I was also blamed for the physical attack received. 

My way of sublimating so much injustice and impotence was to capture in a painting what I felt, behind the silent and covered face, where the look and the expression are as uncomfortable as the word, the fury of thoughts that cannot be said are unleashed.

It is a reminder of how cruel society can be when the truth reveals the failures of the instituted system, when the victim is denied and blamed, something so common that it scares, far more than any dragon.

 

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El sueño del tigre blanco

The dream of the white tiger

The dream of the white tiger

Serie: Large Format Artworks
Technique: Latex on canvas
Size: 150 x 95 cm
Year: 2007

 

The tiger is one of the oldest deities in China, occupying a very important role in its mythology and opposing the dragon.

His fierceness and majesty made him the protagonist of a mythology centered on war and death, but also on the transformations of the spirit and access to paradise, as well as rebirth, reproduction and an exuberant sexuality.

If the tiger is also white, it symbolizes royal virtue. 

Symbol of beauty, strength, perseverance and observation, in this painting a young naked woman in an attitude of prayer is camouflaged in her spots.

As in a dream, the tiger asks us to become aware that we are the ones who must protect the animal species before making them disappear completely from the face of the earth.

The work is a call for attention to the human being, a plea to stop its devastation and annihilation, since the tiger, like all the big cats on the planet and like many other wild species, suffer persecution and hunting, the destruction of their habitats and the commercialization of their death. 

 

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Sueño de la Alhambra

Dream of Alhambra

Dream of Alhambra

Serie: Large Format Artworks
Technique: Latex on canvas
Size: 140 x 190 cm
Year: 2007

 

 

The Alhambra, named for its reddish walls ('qa'lat al-Hamra', Red Castle), is located at the top of the al-Sabika hill, on the left bank of the Darro River, east of the city of Granada, in front of the Albaicín and Alcazaba neighborhoods.

It is recorded for the first time in the 9th century.

Its Nasrid architecture constitutes the end of a period of splendor that began in the Umayyad Córdoba in the 8th century.

The Alhambra baths were built east of the Comares Palace, following the model of the Roman baths.

Thus, the Room of the Beds, the first room that we find when entering the bathrooms, would be the «apoditerium», which was used to undress before entering the bathroom, and has a square space in the center, delimited by columns, in which we find a fountain and galleries around it.

It is something like an open space to the upper floor, from whose gallery it is said that the monarch leaned out to see his naked women, and then threw an apple at the one he had chosen to spend the night.

This painting shows us a magical moment in which a bath in the Alhambra takes on new life, reflecting a sunset sky in its waters.

In that sky of water, a boat awaits the innocent and dreamy woman who is encouraged to flee in it to other fantasy worlds.

 

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Nebulosa Bailarina

Dancing Nebula

Dancing Nebula

Serie: Large Format Artworks
Technique: Latex on canvas
Size: 95 x 135 cm
Year: 2007

 

 

Nebulae are regions of the interstellar medium made up of gases (mainly hydrogen and helium) and dust.

They have remarkable cosmological importance because they are the places where stars are born due to condensation and aggregation of matter, although on other occasions they are the remains of a star that has died.

Emission nebulae associated with dying or already deceased stars are called planetary nebulae (a name that has nothing to do with real planets, they are the outer layers of the atmosphere of a star of low or intermediate mass that has completed its evolution cycle) or supernova remnants (the material released in the titanic supernova explosion that ends high-mass stars).

The Hubble Nebula 5, also known as the Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar or butterfly planetary nebula located 2,200 light-years away that formed when a gigantic aging red star shed its outer layers.

This new expansion was slowed by a ring of stellar matter expelled previously, so that, instead of expanding in a sphere, the gas is pinched at the equator.

This splits the recently expelled gas into two lobes, displaced outward by stellar winds from the very hot central star.

It is one of the brightest and most striking nebulae known to date and is made up of a huge mass of cosmic gas and dust.

At its center is a large blanket of ice particles with a heart that shelters a fiery dying star.

The work fantasizes about the personification of this star, but does not show her in a state of agony, but rather, in a moment of rejoicing.

This woman who emerges from the nebula experiences a rebirth, interpreting in that inescapable death the liberation of the true being, just as it happened with a caterpillar that turns into a butterfly

 

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