Portrait S Collage

This artist chooses two plastic languages with clear and proper codes to stress his peculiarities. On the one hand, the neutrality of the photograph without denying the subjectivity of any look and on the other hand, on a second plane, a close examination on the intimate nature of painting. This tension goes even farther from melting the limits between one language and another; it rather concentrates both, illusion and reality, in one. This technical search seems to penetrate more in a concept of reflective ambiguity alluding the radical or vague ways in which the most intimate sensations are expressed. The convincing look that returns to the observer from the observed one allows bringing the concept of alteration that these works yield to the field of art to be reflected over. Otto uses color with the energy of the painter, with the vibration of the texture of the canvass and the conviction of the stroke while the photograph does not abandon its strong presence in the election of the first planes and the high degree of the iconicity. Belkys Scolamieri