Xavier Puigjaner

Collect all the memories and a ashes that a head guards. Ground and paste made into oil so they last just not for a lifetime.

Experiment with natural pigments and handmade oils. Take as inspiration the range of shades that heaven gives us and a small and reduced set of colors that we can find on the earth we walk on. Starting from a white background base and a reduced chromatic range. A game of light and dark are what give life to these works. Trying to work the luminosity of the  paint emulating one of the basic principles of impressionism without forgetting the total abstraction of the work and the absolut absence of the techniques. Capture the light and the moment regardless of the form. Experiment with lighting and how it changes the color of the reality in which it is refracted until achieving balance and beauty in the painting. Without forgetting again the essence and abstract nature of all the work. Also amazed by the magic of light in the deep darkness of many of the great works of the Baroque and simulate that darkness and that light in small, medium and large volumes. The colors black and white are always present for what they represent. Rest of the them finish forming and the painting. Sometimes with subtlety and other...

Started studying art history in high school and remember that it was one of the few things that he really liked. Only in classes where painting was discussed really pay attention. Always been good at working with the hands. The only academic notions he has about art and painting are those offered to him by a wise professor of whom he keeps fond memories. After that never graduated in anything related. Not everything is in books. Never stopped carring. Never stopped learning. Got  a good memory and the many hours invested in the great rooms of the best museums in the world have also been very useful. Believe that's surely what most. From a very young age he spent his childhood surrounded by art, although not of this type. His grandfather was a musician and photographer. Grew up among old reels and revealing chemicals. Projectors and light boxes. Everything wrapped in the clean and crystalline sound of a trumpet and the melancholy of a piano. Guess that a large part of the interest in painting comes from somewhere in heart that is looking for a way to relate that childish self to the adult of today. He lack lungs and have plenty of memories. Decide to overhaul his grandfather's photography studio and made it his own. Every time he si...