The Iliad: Black and White / Hector Rising Print

I am an Uruguayan born American/Spanish painter that lives around the world. I am now in Croatia, where I have been for the past years. My work is based on the representation of abstract elements. It is the expression of a concept released from the object. Piet Mondrian said: "The artist is aware of abstraction as a feeling of beauty”, and thus I consider abstraction as the most beautiful representation of nature. The concept of the abstract is applied to any expression disconnected from the figurative intention and from the references of the apparent reality. This pulverization and decomposition of the elements that make up a concrete world are what interests me the most about art and creation. I work with texture, neutral colors, most in particular earth ones and consider myself to fit into neo-abstract expressionism and the so-called, new figuration. The force and gesture of the expression evoke the notion of power. My paintings recall arid places where the strength of man's struggle to survive in a world of war, where there are neither winners nor victors. Only the sand and the sea are present in a collective memory charged with a violent history from which the hero emanates as a last resource for humanity.