Antonio Codina - La Ola

ANTONIO JOSÉ CODINA JULIÁ - LA OLA - "XL"- 2023 - MURCIA - SPAIN.

Technique: acrylic painting on paper.
dimensions: 103x74

The work shows us a street full of posters and advertising, establishments, venues, museums, cinemas and even a dog park. The scene is composed of impossible architectures, following a central vanishing point. The colors separate the architecture from the rest of the elements in the piece, achieving a musicality between browns and vivid colors as a perfect support for these notes of color.

Within the artwork, a metaphysical scene unfolds about heartbreak. The piece follows a reading order directly related to the five movements that compose Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, differentiating each act of the symphony with the hour that appears on each corner of the street, the sum of which corresponds to the total duration of Beethoven’s work. The work is divided into 3 levels or floors: the first corresponds to madness, hence the posters form a cryptography; on the second level poetry develops, as well as leisure and carnal sins; on the third level it leads to reflection, culminating the last floor with the "redemption as spiritual drink" in its last poster, on that same level the final notes that compose the Ninth Symphony appear. Behind the street, in the background plane, we can see a giant wave that will sweep the street while it is surfed by a surfer, concluding the work in finite time and space. If one may say, this work is a journey of how love and heartbreak constitute a dramatic act or situation. The artist, in the bottom left corner, gives us a hint about the theme, as a studio easel with a painting showing a broken heart sewing itself, this being the main idea.

ARTISTIC CAREER:

- Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Murcia 2012-2018.
- Professional Master at the School of New Technologies CICE in Madrid in 2019.

- Collective exhibition Galería d'Cuadros in Murcia 2014.
- Solo exhibition "Psychedelic" at La Logia Gallery in El Palmar, Murcia 2015
- Collective exhibition for the College of Opticians and Optometrists "Fortunate are the eyes" Murcia 2019.
- Solo exhibition "The Color of My Streets" at La Luz Gallery in Murcia 2023.
- Solo exhibition at Café del Sur Gallery in Murcia 2024.
Additionally I have carried out various mural works for institutions, businesses and private individuals.