Ricardo Alvarez Martinez, Statement, Exhibition Catalogue, August 29, 1992.

"Face to face with color, an artist has two options: that of affirming the nature of this latter, its faithful reproduction of an objective reality, or that of re-defining a reality which has to do with his own singular experience of color.

With the second option, color may become a symbol and may assume an importance which rivals that normally accorded to form.

Form, color, and reality represent a triad which move in Pablo Contrisciani at a level best described as sensorial, in a level of perceptions and memories which challenge the world of mundanity. His reality, that of his paintings, has very little to do with that other reality, that which most human beings experience daily. But this is his choice: the re-creation of forms and their charging with symbolic value through color is his proposition. No-one can accuse him of infidelity to reality, for the reality is his own.

The hierarchy and magnification of this model are realized because color, for Contrisciani, signifies and IS his interior reality: An interior of violent contrasts, contrasts between the overflowing and the empty, contrasts which echo personal experiences. It is precisely THESE experiences which serve Pablo Contrisciani as a motivating force for creativity. Both his real experience and its symbolic counterpart are manifested in his work, in a superb formal/chromatic combination which reveal the artist as a true creator.

The viewer who finds the key to his work will see much more than painted planes: he will see an essence endeavoring to be discovered, a superlative instant of life, and he will see Pablo Contrisciani."