PLAYGROUND I Painting

One of the earliest memories I have of life are my hands cutting, drawing and painting papers of all kinds to prepare fields of battle, leaks on horseback in the far West, interstellar travel and martial arts tournaments, all focused by the sunlight entering through the Gallery of the House where I was born. That gesture has never abandoned me and has accompanied me throughout the days , being my best friend and teacher. 35 years later I find myself doing the same as I prepare my first collection of paintings and mural "MEDITERRÁNEO" in my studio located in Vilanova i la Geltrú Center South of the Catalan Mediterranean. "MEDITERRÁNEO" is a new language for me, emerged by accident while I was painting. This pictorial tissue allows me to explore both painting and drawing in equal parts, experiment with different techniques such as charcoal, china ink, spray, and acrylic paint. Meeting in "MEDITERRÁNEO" also a very special and satisfactory balance between abstraction and figuration, the Street art and a made-in-studio art at the same time, an expression refined and brutal, clean and dirty, and with a synthetic and essential palette which in my view well reflected my Mediterranean culture composed of cyan and overseas blue , cadmium yellow, red salmon ,silver, gold, and black. ​And above all and most importantly, a painting that escapes from the shock of the new, a celebratory painting of life with its lights and shadows. apuntaki@gmail.com apuntaki.com