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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.
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