Between shades of gray VIII Painting

Through my painting I intend to face the visual exhaustion caused by the violent volley of images from the mass media; that’s why I make a silent painting that claims to recover the intimacy of a gaze that enables the observer to apprehend the indigestible assortment of images for contemplation. Ut Pictura Kinesis (As painting, thus cinema) is a pictorial project that focuses on the relationship between cinema and painting, centring itself on a cinematographic landscape with a pictorial resemblance. The mystery of landscape is the core of the theme as well as the emotional dimension of landscape contemplation. I attempt to call on the concept of the sublime and update it’s meaning. By addressing the sublime and silent landscape in relation to the human being I intend to point at the internal landscape that each person has, so that the spectator can go deep into it and maybe, dwell in it. The images in this project originate from cinema, with the film medium being translated into painting, an inversion of the traditional way, namely, that of classical painting influencing cinema. Polyester is used as support because of its relationship with celluloid, this being the way that the relationship between cinema and painting is highlighted. Time is evoked by means of different resources, by applying Cartier-Bressons concept of “decisive moment”, moving images are transformed into static images; they invite one to contemplate slowly and get beyond the first glance. All in all, I turn to cinema because for me cinema has already built that image and all its sequence, in the atmosphere of a painting that had been put in motion. Making use of decontextualization, I intend to produce enigmatic images that generate questions but do not provide answers. One sees landscapes inundated by mist where you can only discern limited elements, enigmatic and subtle images that search for silence and a space for serene reflection. Either from landscape or portrait, with my artwork I seek the recovery of the peace and calm longed for so much in our frenetic world.