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My drawing of the Trevi Fountain in Rome (1762) is a work in pencil on paper that aims to capture with light, indefinite and agile strokes, the vibrant moment of light and shadow that surrounds the square at this moment. Something alive and stimulating, changing and moving thanks to the light. I try to capture it quickly without getting lost in small details. Simply capture the essence of its vibration by moving the pencil from one place to another without stopping to think. I seek to capture the allegory of a sea that roars and that sometimes appears calm or in total turmoil ... The Trevi Fountain itself is a majestic sculptural work and in a small physical space, its grandeur cannot be fully perceived as a whole. However, the fountain, its terraces of water, its sound, the dynamism of its design and the atmosphere that the square gathers, transmit a state of mind of great vitality. The Trevi Fountain theatrical masterpiece, presents the statue of Oceanus, one of the Titans, father and god of the seas and rivers, looking strong and majestic as a central figure. He is riding on a shell-shaped triumphal chariot pulled by two seahorses who are also led by two Merfolk. One newt is trying to tame a restless seahorse while the other is leading the quiet one. Seahorses serve as a symbol of the erratic moods of the sea. Although Bernini's project was scrapped in favor of Nicola Salvi's, there are many touches of the former in the fountain as it was final.
Pencil on Paper
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15.7 W x 11.4 H x 0.1 D in
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Painting for me is an act of reflection. It means starting a trip inside, a return to an original mythological silence. It is to enter a noisy silence, contemplative emptiness full of sense. My years of artistic preparation studying traditional painting in Japan (Sumi-e), made me rediscover my environment with new eyes. The combination of my solid artistic formation in the University of Seville in Spain and my research studies in the University of Tokio showed me a particular suggestive language through which I try to build an emotional bridge with an intuitive perception of the infinity. In my works there is a moment of detained contemplation, an effort to make the ephemeral permanent, to see the immobile and the immutable through the oasis of the calm reflexive contemplation. I pretend to make people feel the presence of the impalpable, of magic, of ineffable things … The technique I use in my paintings promotes transparency, glaze, the light coming from the inside of the painting. The quality of the colours that I use is essential. It is a mixed technique that includes acrylic paint together with oil painting with natural pigments. With a texture obtained with the use of different types of sand, I intend to look for an “epidermis” for the painting that is sensitive as well as vibrating at the same time. In none of my painting the human being has a place; it is not necessary; it is in the first place, always present by evocation. All in all, I pretend for my paintings to act as resonances for the engrossing vigilant spectator. My paintings want to become “figurative” spaces that tend to the Absolute. Suggestion and evocation; they try to tell without pronouncing. As Arthur Rimbaud said: “There are other worlds, but they are in this one”.
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