Proyecto El Patio Painting

Colombian Artist Carlos Salazar Arenas By: Fernando Toledo Salazar Arenas transfers to the canvas a complex surrounding and at the same time the truth. It is the plastic conversion of an omnipresent fury that provokes, by contrast, an irrefutable affirmation of tenderness, of complicity and even of irony. The contents of the mass media are repetitive, and from well know occurrences a distance is crated between the audience and the event, when composing on a surface of the painting a synthesis of a perturbed reality. The color, the stain and even the calligraphy are at the service of this intention to question ourselves, to allow the audience an opinion at a distance and to gain objectivity in a theme that in another manner would have resulted painful. The work of Salazar Arenas implies craft and testimony but, above all, it is a heartbreaking cry that puts forward a tragedy that never ceases.