1221 Print

As an artist, I share a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. I believe that its true significance lies not merely in formal arrangements, but in the spiritual meaning underlying all archaic works. ///// My painting process is similar to a shamanic ritual, where suspension of reasoning plays a key role in the creative process. To me, abstraction is a tool to escape intellectual and creative confines. In my art practice, I seek not only fresh means of expression but the origins of artistic creation itself.///// I like to draw in bed with closed eyes when I am half asleep. When I look at the result next morning I decide whether the work is complete or the process should be repeated. My painting practice follows the same principle. I like to paint in twilight and choose colours randomly, i.e. letting a dice roll decide. Thus, by deliberately reducing personal control I attempt to turn it into a process where a pure and uncontrolled randomness can produce by itself a sort of orderly homogeneity.///// (I sign my works with the alias 'Xgeronimo")