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DARKNES·S - Acrylics on canvas, 112 × 112 cm
In this series, the tree becomes a motif for contemplation and, at the same time, an almost architectural presence. The four paintings explore different configurations of the landscape through a restrained range of whites, grays, and blacks, where the painting matter assumes a central role.
The square format of 112 × 112 cm creates a particular relationship between the arboreal figure and the space. The tree ceases to function solely as a natural element and becomes an autonomous, monumental body that occupies and tensions the pictorial surface. Its horizontal branches, its masses of foliage, and its trunks articulate the space as if they were structures drawn into the landscape.
The use of acrylic in black and white intensifies this reading. The absence of color does not imply a reduction, but a concentration of the gaze: light, shadow, texture, and gesture acquire greater importance. The quick and fragmented brushstrokes construct the foliage without depicting it literally. The tree thus appears between representation and abstraction, recognizable yet subjected to a process of synthesis and transformation.
There is also a marked gestural dimension. The brushstrokes, the transparencies, the accumulations of material, and the eroded areas of the surface reveal the image-building process. The landscape seems less observed and more reconstructed through memory, gesture, and the physical experience of painting.
In some works, the horizontality of the canopies contrasts with the verticality of the trunks; in others, the tree concentrates into a compact mass that seems to emerge directly from the earth. This variation allows each piece to function independently, yet when viewed together they form a visual narrative about permanence, time, and resilience.
The represented trees convey a sense of quietude, even though their surfaces are full of movement. Fragility and strength, silence and energy coexist within them. The landscape thus becomes an emotional space: more than depicting a concrete place, the works seem to speak of our relationship with nature and the need to pause the gaze before what endures.
The series finally proposes a reflection on presence and trace. The tree remains rooted while everything else — light, climate, the viewer’s perception, and the painting gesture itself — seems to be in transformation. That tension between the permanent and the ephemeral constitutes one of the main poetic values of these paintings.
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