Figurative Abstractionism

“The abstract pictorial language is an expressive current that boasts among the most varied forms of communication. Wanting to explain abstract painting in a summary but not entirely exhaustive way, we can say that the pictorial image does not want to represent subjects attributable to visible reality. It is in clear contrast with figurative painting, which proposes, more or less, real figures but certainly attributable to a perceptive sphere. The abstract is the exact opposite, a-figurative, it does not (usually) present figures. It can be art as an end in itself (Rothko, art by art) or it can evoke feelings through the power of color ... perhaps among all its nuances it is the latter that interests me the most and that can be applied more to my idea of fusion with the figurative, a research that I have been dealing with for years. During one of my personal reflections, however, I realized that my abstracts are not entirely definable as such. My abstract language, in addition to being particularly evocative of certain visions of deep space or sea abysses, wants to represent something existing: our spiritual reality, the most intimate and intangible part of ourselves. Since the dawn of time, the human spirit has sought the ascent, the elevation from his condition, the transcendence from this finite life. Desire of the Most High, exploration of one’s inner sky or the Platonic world of Ideas ... Universal Yearning. It is this sphere that I want to represent with my paintings, which for ease I call abstracts, but which in reality are not, precisely because they want to represent an existing reality, perceptible but not reproducible.”

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