About

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I am a Spanish artist who work and live in Brussels. Graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca, I pursue my artistic career mainly focused on the modality of painting, but I also make digital drawings, practice photography and recently, pottery.

 

In a nutshell, my artist's search starts with the construction and (re)construction of spaces in connection with our inner memories; The open spaces, the atmospheric spaces, the knowable and non-identifiable spaces, but, at the same time, the communal spaces. The spaces that convey the sensation of nostalgia, the melancholy, and the passage of time that come with the luggage of our memories, and without the memory, are the only moments that come with the new life. These memories are from the perspective of the sensations, the scents, the places, those ones to where we, unstoppably return again and again to (re) find us, our souls and the most intrinsic parts of ourselves. Those which, undoubtedly form the starting point of our lives, our origin and that will accompany us until the end. The ephemerality of our passage on earth, the injuries and the scars, the old objects, the rotten and broken ones, they continuously bring our minds to those inner spaces we belong to, where we come from, where we are free. These spaces belong to most intimate part of ourselves but they also have a societal dimension as they are the trace of the current time. This is the basis for my work and the point of departure for my artistic research. The latest project entitled TIERRA MADRE also integrates, from an introspective point of view, the issues of immigration and globalization.

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My research

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My artistic research has, as its starting point, the construction and reconstruction of spaces; open spaces, atmospheric spaces, unrecognizable and unidentifiable spaces, but, at the same time, common spaces. Spaces that transmit the same sensation of nostalgia, of melancholy, towards a past time that we all carry as baggage in our memory, and that without that, we would not be what we are each of us today. To those memories that transmit sensations, smells, places, are those to which we return again and again to meet the deepest part of our souls and ourselves. Those ones that undoubtedly form the starting point of our lives, our origin. The ephemeral of our time on the earth, the wounds and scars, the old, rusted, broken objects, that refer us to that space which belong, on one hand, only to each of us but on the other hand, is at the same time so common. This is what we call memory and this is the point of departure in my artistic research.

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This feeling of nostalgia and of being alone but at the same time part of a community has increases since my decision to leave Spain already 8 years ago. Expatriation has made me going even further in this research where some subtle figuration has been included in my most recent works.

So, therefore, in my pictorial work and in my attempt to transmit the above, I use atmospheric compositions, more or less delimited, but always open, leaving spaces without closing; glazes, degraded, dusty surfaces, smoke ... from my admiration for William Turner, English painter of the first half of the nineteenth century, whose interests and themes were very different as seen in "Snowstorm: Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps "Or in" Rain, steam, speed. The great western railway "but I share its interest in the recreation of atmospheres. The same happens with Ramón Casas in his works, such as "Plein air" or the painter Mariano Fortuny in some of his works such as "La linterna mágica" or "Exit of a procession, on a rainy day, from the Church of the Holy Cross of Madrid ". But it is not only nineteenth-century painters who were concerned with the recreation of atmospheric spaces, but also contemporary artists such as Cy Twombly in works like "Wilders shores of love" or "Lepanto" or the artist Anselm Kiefer in "Andromeda" or "Melancholia".

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I am also very influenced by the color abstraction of Sean Scully's color fields, I quote some of his works "Flyer" or "Wall of light" or the works of the artist Mark Rothko such as "Black on gray" or "Untitled ( Nº4) "since I am interested in color as a way to transmit the ideas I presented earlier. At present, my work is apparently monochromatic as a whole although full of nuances if it is carefully observed; I am interested in dark colors, blacks, grays, lands ... and take them to their maximum consequences.

 

To develop the exposed theme I have also introduced collage works in some works. Most are fabrics of antique patterns, flowers, upholstery combined with smooth fabrics that manage to compose the space and frame it.

I use this type of fabric, soiling it, veiling it, rallying it, to transmit the idea of ​​the past time, of the old and the broken, since they are printed that in one way or another we all transmit that idea.