ABOUT WORK
The author is a modern figure, a product of our society in so far as, emerging from the Middle Ages with English empiricism, French rationalism and the personal faith of the Reformation, it discovered the prestige of the individual, of, as it is more nobly put, the “human person.”
Barthes, R.,1968, Death of the Author
"The whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was directly lived has become mere representation."
Debord, G., 1967, The Society Spectacle
At first, I still believed that art had a social obligation and commitment, based on certain modern movements, which led me to make a lot of critical works in their relation to the society and its constant "spectacle", regardless of having full awareness that Art itself is only one more of these "spectacles", and hence, the constant criticism of contemporary art itself.
In the course of my research I'm increasingly approaching to what I believe to be the essence of painting and art, based on the capture of nature, in a personal way, and based on nature, life and the world as a form of supreme art. This return to an impressionist project brings me back to a reflection on the values and morals of art, and more importantly, a pretentious aesthetic search, based on landscape and pictorial plasticity.
OLD TEXTS
Between Football, World and Contemporary Art
Its undoubtedly the basis of my work, trying to relate the mediatic shows with art. Using these themes as the central focus of my work I try to ask if the art is nowadays one of these entertainment shows? Doesn't live the great exhibitions of that same vehicle that is the media? Doesn't she uses the Cristianos Ronaldos of art to grow and feed a small niche of people, or is she really concerned about sharing culture?
At the same time I try to reflect on the relationship between men, and these phenomena... Are we part of the shows, when we watch a concert or a football game? Make us believe so, but deep down we are doing nothing, just watching, we are just spectators, individuals alone!
And what about the plastic experience process, what about the process of artistic creation itself, often overlooked by the artist, who penetrates into conceptual issues, forgetting the pleasure of construction and aesthetic experience?
And what about its opposite? the artist, who cares only for esthetic problems often forgetting the conceptual issues.
It's that contemporary art? And where are the questions?
So, I try to think through my work about all of this problems...
A Modern Painter
"A modern painter" its a topic that I have been developing for some time, The idea of how art is sold and taught to young people, lead us to believe that such a thing as Picassos and Van Goghs still exist, and thus, create the myths and dreams. Who has not dreamed to be a great artist? be recognized as such? be a new Picasso?
A modern painter intends to work out what the great masters worked, with special emphasis on the exercises of landscape, still life and portrait. Every great painter needs to paint landscapes, still lifes and portraits to be considered as such, as the geniuses, the classics,the moderns. They were all endowed with a remarkable execution capacity.
This theme works as an affirmation of the contemporary artist to be as the modern painter, to reach at their level in a ironic way, of course, because what matters is just doing it and not doing it well.
Reaserch and Problems
In the construction of my work I am faced with several research fronts because I believe that the possibility of something or anything being art allows me to do whatever I want. These various fronts are inextricably linked with each other, given the possibility of everything and nothing, but at the same time they end up having each own characteristics that make them unique and independent, so I took the liberty to divide them.
What is the relationship between football and art? What is painting? The schizophrenia of video art, capitalist society and the problems of globalization on art. in the world. in life.Is art something serious, sober and without salt? Can we laugh with art? What is art? These are some of the questions that I put in my daily work, and on which I try to reflect in a serious or joking way, my work gives me pleasure and so I intend to continue.