camilo - La Mirada Quieta

The work of camilo builds an intimate territory where the everyday becomes an emotional refuge. His paintings invite us to stop time and to inhabit domestic scenes filled with silence, harmony, and a serene contemplation of life.

Cats resting beside open windows, women reading, waiting, or holding flowers, tables with fruit, jars, and wine glasses: all these elements form a costumbrista universe that does not describe reality literally, but reinterprets it from memory, calmness, and sensitivity.

Color is one of the great protagonists of his pictorial language. Camilo works with a palette of clear Fauvist influence, where the intense tones —reds, yellows, greens and vibrant blues— are liberated from the descriptive function to become vehicles of emotion. Color does not imitate: it expresses. It does not shade: it pulses.

Formally, the figures are presented with an elegant synthesis, defined contours and simplified volumes, which reinforces the sense of order and balance. This economy of form, far from diminishing depth, enhances the expressiveness of the whole, allowing each scene to breathe and to engage the viewer from a place of quiet.

The cats — constant presences in his work — function as symbols of introspection, freedom, and shared domesticity. They are not mere animals: they are guardians of the home, silent witnesses to a rich and tranquil inner life. The female figures, for their part, appear wrapped in an atmosphere of delicacy and contemplation, harmoniously integrated into the space they inhabit.

Camilo is a graduate of the Art Instructor program in the city of Las Tunas, Cuba, a training that is evident in the technical mastery and conceptual coherence of his work. He currently lives and works between Havana and Russia, an experience that has enriched his perspective and broadened his cultural dialogue. He has participated in several group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad, and his works are part of private collections in Russia and in several European countries.

In a fast-paced world saturated with flashy images, Camilo's painting offers the opposite: pause, warmth, and serene beauty. His work does not seek to impact through noise, but to endure from emotion.



The work is situated within a lyrical Fauvism that directly draws on Matisse's influence, especially in the simplification of ornamental patterns and the use of saturated colors without academic shading. Through a technique of fluid and flat brushwork, the artist constructs a scene where the female figure and the decorative elements (the fishbowl and the vase) share the same visual weight, unified by a palette of vibrant reds and electric blues. The composition stands out for its intentional two-dimensionality and the use of geometric backgrounds that fragment space into planes of pure color. The painter seeks to convey a sense of hypnotic contemplation and domestic calm; the silent interaction between the woman and the fish suggests a deep connection with the slow rhythm of life, transforming an everyday corner into a space of visual meditation where time seems to have stood still.