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Pablo Contrisciani
installations and objects 2001
paintings

pictorial sensitivism 1997 - 2000

landscape series 1993 - 1996
figurative series 1989 - 1992
portrait series 1989 - 1992
 
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Detail of  "Mystical Jungle"
48 x 58 in / 122 x 147 cm
acrylic & enamel on canvas

 

I demand from my Paintings that they push color to its maximum potential. Savagely. My paintings are to be a shock to the eyes provoked by contrasts between planes of colors which advance and recede. No one part of the paintings cries out louder than the others. All cry out together with the energy of the colors, thus producing an "intensified harmony." Each piece is a unity on the brink of explosion, producing tridimensional and other optical effects.

My Paintings have two readings: a first one, that comes like a blow, and in which all colors clamor in unison at the top of their lungs; and a second one, after the first impact, in which each area appears as a micro-world within a totality.

My work is influenced by Optical Art, Psychedelic Art, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock and all dripping artists, such as Sam Francis, as well as all colorist movements throughout art history, from the Primitive Italians to Henry Matisse. I want to convey that same strength, but with something original, something that has never been seen before.

The paintings don't have a real space and there is no center focus. Each part of one same work of art is strong enough and different from the rest because I don't repeat colors and shapes. Several moments are visualized and expressed with diverse techniques. The selection of the colors in each contrasting plane corresponds to an emotional, psychological, and physical registered moment.

I work on the floor, and usually on big scale. I like to use drippings and many other effects in which my body movements are deeply related to the strength of the colors. I use different materials, such us enamel paint to provoke optical sensations. This is accomplished through the texture and the brilliance of the colors.

Color, carried to its fullest potential, is capable of producing numerous sensations: anxiety, vertigo, euphoria, tranquility, and most importantly, it's showing simultaneously all opposite emotions through an intense visual experience which I desire to evoke for the viewer in my paintings.

 


Detail of  "The Red Sea"
40 x 50 in / 100 x 130 cm
acrylic & enamel on canvas
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