Sobre el Artista

Artist Statement: The mission, I’ve set out through pure abstraction painting is to influence the way people see and think about art and what abstract art consists of. This is a matter of artistic reconfiguration. Through, my artistic practice, i.e. the medium of oil painting, I am reconfiguring the dominant ideas on abstraction, that is the traditional ideas on pure abstraction painting, specifically non-objectivity. An initial breakthrough occurred in 2009 with the publication of my book: Color-Realism, acquired by the National Gallery of Canada for its library. The book’s main thesis is that color is as real as reality gets. Color is the basic language upon which all other languages develop. And it is through pure abstraction painting that this fundamental language of color is put into motion and communicated. My art is multi-dimensional. My pure abstraction paintings expand outwards from the canvas manifesting a different type of abstraction, a 3-dimensional and dynamic form of abstraction, in the sense that as the viewer walks around the paintings the colors of the picture change; as well, if the lighting changes so does the colors of the painting. This is the multi-dimensionality found in my artwork, which is something new in modern art. In sum, for me, Everything is abstract, conceptual to the end; reality, materiality, is but variations in degrees of abstraction based on the concept of color, hence why I label my artistic style “color-realism” as color is as real as reality gets.