R.Robin - Umbral (XL)

“Umbral”

In this work I build a system of superimposed planes where color acts as a field of emotional tension. The dominant red is not just a background, but an enveloping atmosphere that activates the entire surface and places the viewer in a state of perceptual alertness. I divide the space into bands that function as reading layers: at the bottom, a linear blue mesh describes synthetic vegetation, almost coded, which alludes to that “garden” that in my work symbolizes the mutable and the lived. In the center, the matter becomes denser and more painterly, with overlapping gestures that suggest accumulation, memory, and time. Above all this, I drop vertical lines that traverse the composition, as if the space were being filtered or pierced by a rain of information.

The upper plane, more contained and luminous, presents itself as a suspended space, a place of transition where form dissolves and the image becomes almost intangible. It is here where I place the concept of “threshold”: an unstable boundary between the structural and the organic, between what is contained and what expands. In this piece, the “house” — understood as a solid identity — is fragmented into layers, while the “garden” emerges from below as a force that insists on occupying everything. My intention is not to represent, but to provoke that sense of passage, of crossing, where the viewer stands exactly at that limit where something ceases to be in order to begin to transform.

About R.Robin

Robinson Rodríguez García is a visual artist, theater designer, and drawing professor, born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and residing in Spain. He graduated in 2003 from the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts and develops an artistic practice centered on painting and contemporary language, where abstraction, geometry, and a strong symbolic load converge. Between 2003 and 2005 he taught drawing workshops at the Manuel Ascunce Domenech School of Arts Instructors, and between 2006 and 2009 he worked as a costume and scenic designer for the Santa Clara Provincial Council of the Performing Arts, an experience that decisively influenced his spatial and formal conception within the visual arts.

His work has been presented in various solo exhibitions in Cuba, highlighting shows at the Provincial Gallery of Art and institutional spaces in Santa Clara. He has also participated in important international group exhibitions and fairs, including Art Basel Miami, group exhibitions in France, and contemporary art events in the Americas and Europe. In 2017 he participated in art fairs in Mexico. His career is complemented by studies and international workshops related to scenographic design and visual creation, consolidating a multidisciplinary artistic profile that dialogues between painting, space, and contemporary symbolic experience.

About preparation and packaging:

The work is signed by the artist R. Robin and is accompanied by its corresponding certificate of authenticity, likewise signed. The canvas will be shipped rolled and protected in a professional cardboard tube, ensuring its proper preservation during transport. The shipment will be made within a maximum of three business days from the date of purchase confirmation, and the delivery time will depend on the selected courier company.