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Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 51.2 W x 51.2 H x 1.2 D in
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Lately, you seem a little blue. Someone once told me that the noise of your electric circuits won’t allow you to sleep. It's pretty clear that the shiny sparkles between your neurons have disappeared, only God knows where. Let’s face it: the world can't live without your contagious smile and for this reason, because we love you, we’ve left a present for you. Right at the end of the dark tunnel where you have retired. Wash your hands and smile, you can finally go out and feel free. Say goodbye to the emptiness and loss. Banish the feeling of failure: now you will be able to function just like any other. * This huge self-portrait in a Pikachu costume is my very first piece dedicated to mental health and psychiatric drugs. I chose Pikachu because I like the idea of psychological well-being as a fragile electric balance in the brain, and I wanted to represent a wild and distorted euphoria. Pikachu is also a metaphor of the happiness-and-success-imperative that we all suffer in today’s social media culture. It’s that kind of stupid positive psychology that celebrates the "be whatever you want to be" principle and blames everyone for being ugly, old, ill or simply different. In the artwork, Pikachu shows dirty hands and a hood with a big embroidered smile. He is surprised because he has discovered an immediate solution to his pain. He will finally heal that fracture between how he feels and how he must feel to please people. The background was carefully planned to portray the protagonist's feelings: obsessive loops and fluorescent colors represent an unmanageable inner world. Close to the meds box, some green nuances add something chemical to the chromatic composition. The scribbles in the high-right part of the artwork are a clear tribute to the album "Reality" by David Bowie. The singer always talked, whether directly or indirectly about mental health.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
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Size:51.2 W x 51.2 H x 1.2 D in
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SUBJECTS My vision focuses on the human element and uses portraiture as a medium to develop a narrative of individuals. For this reason, most of my work deals with the concept of self-discovery: both of oneself (using mask, makeup and costumes) and others (relationships, separations and memories). Therefore, my subjects often have something unpolished and teen. They go back looking for parts of themselves that have remained incomplete or they live a moment of loneliness with dramatic intensity. They struggle with self-identity and sometimes compare themselves to others. Very often they feel they are victims of a certain hormonal euphoria and a little disappointment. They are wonderfully unstable people seeking to shape themselves. They are fragments that I use to explore my contradictions and my concerns. For a long time my work has focused on the concept of masculinity and questioning the status quo. I will continue to do so, because we still live in a society that defends a concept of masculinity that is ridiculous, obsolete and harmful. I consider figurative painting as a political instrument. STYLE More than a naturalistic style, I would define my painting as synthetic. Each canvas is a construction of the image from a carefully decontextualized set of photographic material. Most of this material is self-produced, while the rest comes from private collections or historical archives. In each piece, I like the challenge of creating a different balance between control and abstract: in some paintings I try to do a faithful reproduction while in others I give priority to the movement of the paintbrush, turning faces and bodies into a sum of spots to awaken some emotional attention from the spectator. COLOURS There is something fascinating about photographs from the 80s: those shady areas where colors have gradually given way to blue. Since I started painting I have tried to reproduce that effect by exaggerating shadows and edges. Little by little, I have added to the blue a fairly complex range of colors, always having as a reference, the aesthetics of the 80s. Today I consider color my personal terrain of exploration of the contemporary. Without giving up that blue – an almost generational sign – I look for chromatically complex compositions. In my latest pieces I have devoted much attention to yellow and pink, colors that very often represent naivety and also decadence.
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