Copper and black n.17 Print

I seek to unveil painting in its "pictoriality", that is, to face the materials with themselves, generating interactions between them. In this way, the support becomes a kind of "battlefield", where the processes of artistic creation take place. Although there are elements that I can control by giving certain guidelines to the materials, they are governed by their own systems, behaving in unexpected ways and transforming into new images. The creation around the abstract image gives a certain independence to the act of painting, being the materials free to behave as they please, without obeying representational purposes. This allows the spectator to focus the attention on the creation processes and on the interaction between the elements that, being of irreconcilable origins (water and oil, acrylic and oil), reject each other, establishing a difference on the surface, where the only possible mixture it's by layering. Pigments, a fundamental component of my work, help to register these behaviors of the elements. The materiality and texture of the pigment leaves a print or sign of trace of what happens on the support. The interaction of the elements allows the development of multiple possibilities that are expressed through color, texture, brightness, opacity, directions, depth.