"Essències"
is a life sketch that it is open with
every foot print...
The exhibition joins a serie of experiencies, sensations and impressions
that impregnate my occidental soul, they are ethereal prints, short-lived
moments that they were left by the meetings with some cultures, and
at the same time, they are tiny brushstroke that go me up to human element
very soft.
Its realism
is just appearance, a false quick look; characters are just an excuse
to sense a culture, a way of life, an ancestral memory that slip along
a scarf, along a hat, along a field tool....
Essències de cultura let us put in an esence world of
fragance, smells, flavours, lights, lands, materials..., tiny particles
in constantly movement; they will assume responsibile for the meeting
in the no meeting that always means the other, they will be those that
let us enjoy or suffer, but they will always make us to be on the alert,
expectant, ready to find out the similitude in the difference, the diffence
of what it is similar.
Characters that appear are nameless, it's the culture who christens
them, who give name to them; however, the audience tries to capture
the character with their own look, but they never get it. A simple detail,
a shade, a fold, a silence, these confuse spectators and absorbed them.
A culture that it is not of who is looking, but whom is looked.
I have traveled around several countries, I've enjoyed their smells
and colours, I've suffered their aromas and lights. I let me dissolve
in yellows and african lands, it was mixed up with reds and asiatic
lacquers, mayan tinge me with bronze and they impregnate me with fleeting
esence, with that which slip between shade colour schemes that try to
catch the careful brushstroke, palette knife that picks the impact of
what it is inaccessible up.