Sudden silence
Ageless in the raw #6
About the "Ageless in the raw” series.
All the paintings in the series Ageless in the Raw function as complete journeys into a chosen place—one that resonates with an inner harmony and a sense of fullness. The landscapes are nearly abstract, yet the feeling of the site remains visible in the colours and forms.
The result is a convergence of the observer’s perceptual filters and the external reality encountered there. These paintings advocate a state of mind while simultaneously evoking a geography perceived in constant transformation. The movement inscribed on the surface—through the flow of gesture—creates zones of colour and lines of expression that define space and time as tangible dimensions within the painting. The work’s subjectivity offers the viewer an open field of interpretation, inviting a personal and expansive understanding.
The first large-format works began in 2022. Rather than starting from blank canvases, the artist brought along earlier, unfinished works that seemed capable of entering into dialogue with this new phase. These canvases contained paintings from previous years with which he was not fully satisfied. Instead of discarding them, he turned them over and began painting on the reverse. However unresolved those earlier works may have been, they contained information worth preserving. The raw fabric on the back presented new challenges and possibilities. Because untreated cotton absorbs paint more readily, it allowed for fluid lines and a freer hand from the outset. A white ground was applied, over which one or two colours—typically acrylic and black ink—were used.
Most of the works thus developed two faces, front and back, introducing a new dimension in which past and present coexist on opposite sides of the same surface. Working on raw canvas demands a different approach from conventional techniques; its absorbency resembles that of paper. This quality made it possible to use charcoal over acrylic without the surface becoming sealed or “plasticised,” while also enabling transparency and successive layering. The method proved liberating: it allowed for greater speed and avoided the need for overly compact paint application.
Large formats also engage the whole body. Detail loses the prominence it holds in smaller works. When standing close to the canvas, one cannot fully grasp how a particular area functions within the whole, and this releases the composition from excessive formal control. There is no need to constantly adjust the overall balance. Instead, the painting undergoes successive metamorphoses, until a general equilibrium emerges—less as a consciously calculated result than as a spontaneous synthesis.
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SKU 977
Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions 400 x 140 cm
This work is a diptych on canvas that is part of the Ageless in the Raw series, which has been in production since 2022 and is inspired by the landscape of the region where the author regularly holds creative residencies. An environment that enters the senses due to its unique characteristics, with its vegetal mantle of plants used to sink their roots in stony soil, its intense and strong light that accentuates the colors and shapes as if they were carved in metal, the color of the earth with the nuances of schist and reddish iron rocks, the immense blue dome that projects its warm light on the pointed canopies of the pine trees through which the wind blows with its own.
