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White Rope III Painting

Miriam Cabello

Australia

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 55.9 W x 48 H x 1.2 D in

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Selected to exhibit at the National Art Museum of Sport. Indianapolis, USA. Cabello’s series of athletes, painted in oils on linen, show luminous torsos woven into a grid of gestural drips. The paintings channel a specific, personal moment of profound realisation. “Each emotive piece explores the range of emotions I experienced when confronted by my first live boxing match. The cascading drips of blood and sweat that stained the boxer’s body, the solace and tenacity in the individuals gaze.” “I represent this effect by first applying the white drips which take a month to dry.” The glowing surface and optical depth of Miriam’s oil paintings is obtained through applying numerous translucent and transparent layers of kinetic brushwork. She only uses the warm and cool variants of three colours per piece. This method invites contemplation as oil painting dries very slowly. “My technique requires I wait for each layer to completely dry before the next glaze is applied. The resulting fine network of dripped lines optically blends colours when viewed from a distance and depicts my subjects’ individual colour temperature.” It is in this private place where the depth of each mans gaze is felt. The focus is on the human condition and like Michelangelo’s David; the resolve and success of the individual is not dictated by physicality alone. The emotive paintings that form White Rope explore the spectrum of each boxers story from the initiated to the robust and contribute to the dialogue of the male image in art. These works are painted in her unique, masterful oil painting technique ©Spectral Kinetic Realism. A new, inspired and challenging process that is grounded in 20 years of academic research and creative exploration.

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

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Size:55.9 W x 48 H x 1.2 D in

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Miriam Cabello is a Chilean-Australian interdisciplinary artist, curator, and academic educator, based in Sydney. Her studio practice explores Mythology, questioning, "Where is Hercules (Heracles)? What does it mean to be Hercules in the 21st century?" She offers a host of unique artistic responses to this ambitious question. Her new multi-layered works feature some of the finest figurative contemporary paintings of universal heroes, from the celebrated to the conspicuous, from athletes to activists. To reveal and merge incompatible ideas from masculinity and feminism in contemporary art. Western Mythology juxtaposed with Meso-American myths. Allegories of Pugilism (boxing) aim to expound ideas and unearth the exploits of great heroes fighting against superhuman odds, quests and trials and the eternal fight against the powers of darkness and adversity. Hercules finds its origins in Cabello's 2011 exhibition at the DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, selected to travel to the National Art Museum of Sport, USA, titled 'Australian Aboriginal Boxing Legends'. Highlighting Lionel Rose, American Sports Illustrated wrote of his 1968 fight in Tokyo, "across Australia, that night people clung to radios as if the ringside announcer were Winston Churchill … women wept over Lionel Rose and men shouted…. Lionel Rose was Hercules, Charles Lindbergh and the Messiah all rolled into one". Miriam's creative process and the interlocking themes she has developed throughout her life and art practice are grounded on the Old Masters' historical oil painting techniques, iconography, colour symbolism and the Latin American art canon. Her innovative oil painting technique bridges the baroque and post-modern understanding of light, which affects perception. She founded ©Spectral Kinetic Realism after 20 years of academic research and creative exploration.

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