Longing for the sun Painting

Contemporary visual culture has lost its capacity for contemplation. While seemingly art has moved away from outdated notions of beauty, my work argues that the sublime is overlooked in contemporary production. Through my painting, I intend to face the visual exhaustion fruit of mass media’s violent barrage of images. My optical silence claims the recovery of the intimacy of gaze, enabling the beholder’s contemplation. Paradoxically, my source of inspiration is precisely in pre-existing images; my works explore the way in which we relate to them. On the one hand, I’m interested in the narrative ability of images, ambiguity and Umberto Eco’s “open work”, on the other; I work with the concepts of mystery, veil, tragedy, beauty and the sublime. Lately, I have been enquiring into the relationship and mutual influence of cinema and painting. The images of my latest project originate from cinema, with film medium being translated into painting. An inversion of the traditional way, namely, that of painting influencing cinema. I turn to Cinema because its pictorial sense is given. It has already built that image and all the sequence in which the atmosphere of a painting has been put into motion. I explore the way in which film directors have dealt with pictorial concepts, particularly the sublime, and I try to find a way to translate it back into painting. By making use of appropriationism, decontextualization, and relating images from different sources, I intend to produce new and enigmatic narratives that generate questions but don’t provide answers.