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William Rafael Marquina Buitrago
Ecuador
Painting, Oil on Aluminium
Size: 48 W x 31 H x 2 D in
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Title: Poltergeist Republic Technique: Mixed Means (materials): Oil, polyester resin and drawing by light reflection on aluminum plate Dimensions: 81 cm x 122 cm (31 x 48 inch) Year: 2016 Related link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orpn9NoupAI Poltergeist Republic (first in a series of the same name) explores the phenomenon of the Venezuelan innocence. This is a political criticism of populism as a kind of paranormal phenomenon that resurfaces in my country in the last ten years with a ghostly force. Despite having lived stories of independence and foreign looting, he has always permeated us a republic with innocent vocation and that innocence has become we paranormal phenomena of moral debacle before a grisly future. I identify through self-portrait with hands on head in arrest and fear of this phenomenon. The painting symbolizes the abstract mechanism of innocence: the two circles (magenta red: the present, the unprecedented and novel, indigo red: the past, torturous to grasp at present, difficult and uncertain, extinct ); the two arms: the right and left, the two pending or pathways; the will is on the shoulders and arms; the swirling of a world leverage against the egalitarian, the distribution and repetitive; finally feeling like decision is in the heart and borders (the limit), that way we acquiesce but stops at a frightening future, what we thought most needed in our lives republic becomes the worst nightmare. My techniques are often mixed, here I use the oil and resin as me help shape the color with realistic textures on the drawing (self-portrait). This procedure call drawing by reflection light, where light is the raw material of the drawing. It is a technique where light and shadows abrading applied by friction on a flat aluminum; lights and shadows are consciously altered in favor of changes in the value of gray in the figure. This technique have advantage from a need for a language to symbolize, express and abstracting my concept of time.
Original Created:2016
Subjects:Political
Materials:Aluminium
Styles:Abstract Expressionism
Mediums:OilMetalpolyetser resin
Painting:Oil on Aluminium
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:48 W x 31 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Venezuela.
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William Marquina was born in Mérida, Venezuela. Attracted by the works of great masters such as Picasso and Leonardo, at the age of 11 he participated in an outdoor Sunday painting workshop. After graduating in visual arts from the Universidad de Los Andes, he studied a master's degree in philosophy, followed by an unfinished doctorate, and was a short-term visual arts professor at the same university. From now on, William will pursue his passion for art by experimenting with different themes, techniques, styles and media. Disappointed by the unstable situation in his country, he emigrated to the city of Quito in 2019 where he currently lives and produces his works in the Oskan-huera painting studio, cloistered during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021, he will insist on his series Perceptions William's production has been experimentally versatile and challenges us with series characterized by the desire to search, study and complement the archaic and contemporary. His series are notable: Brillo, Picasso Copy, Matisse Copy, Da Vinci Copy and Aperceptions. In the latter, he highlights us in painting, the subjective complexity in the world of perceptions. In 2023 he exhibited his individual retrospective "Imbrications in painting" in the city of Quito; the International Painting exhibition at Casal Català Quito, 2021 and "Exhibition of Ecuadorian Painting" at the Mayor's Office of Quito, 2019. Other important individuals were: "Cartographies of the Terrestrial and Transterranean", Merida 2012; "Care. Path and Limit", 2007 and "Essences", 2007. Awarded the First Prize of Arts for University Students, in 2001.
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