The Burden Painting

"I am a realist through and through, apolitical and not moralizing. This realism, which tends less to represent reality than to establish a reality, rejects any emphasis and any dramatic sensation or satirical intention in a work of art. They are authentic creations, separated from the abstract and from what one could contemptuously call illustrative. I try to depict the found or invented motif in such a way that as an artist I give the viewer the feeling of encountering a new reality that has more weight than just an image." I show people in their time, their environment, their situation. Always questioning the “being”. I let the observer slip into the figure of the depicted and himself according to self-assessment, intellectual foreknowledge, and but above all his own being (in the sense of José Ortega y Gasset ) he will have to face his own nature. Interesting, of course, and that is in contrast to the conventional “figurative painting”, the multi-layered interpretation options.