The artist, with his new series of works that he will present in the next art, put aside his rigorous abstraction to turn to a figurative style that only seems calm seen from afar
A fortuitous encounter with an artist can hold exchanges of ideas out of agenda. The decisive painter, Fabián Burgosallows to know the new figurative paintings that will be seen this month in Arteba. In the workshop of broad dimensions you can see an exhibition of large format works, a series with flocks of birds as exclusive protagonists. The immensity of the heavens where dark birds are crossed, is reiterated in all paintings in different colors, faint or intense, there are several blue and there are even yellow and pink.
The images are beautiful and peaceful. If they look from afar. As you approach to contemplate those black birds, the erratic journeys of each of them, baffle. While there are some that fly in a row and in the same direction, configuring a perfect straight line as if they had a course, others that collide with each other. And it is impossible to guess where they are heading. Not everyone goes to the same side. In the midst of this description, the artist himself confesses: “I don’t know where I am going, I don’t know how the things that happen,”. But in no way denies the possibility that the paintings are expressions or unconscious responses to that world that does not question and barely hits when it goes for coffee. Simply, live oblivious to the context that surrounds it because it does not have time and paints from sun to sun.
Thus returns the issue of disorientation and uncertainty. Pint Burgos The disorder of the context that surrounds it? In the ordered universe from which it comes, that of a geometric abstraction, the absolute domain of color and forms added to a formidable trade, provides certainty and the security of never making the course. Even millimeters are calculated with a perfect pulse and a privileged eye, lover of art of Morandi and capable of discovering the nuances of color exactly. In that harmonious and abstract world, Burgos He is an incomparable artist. It is worth taking a look at his paintings, murals actually (even on the screens) of some Miami buildings. There he seduces the crowds. And, thus, precisely, the temptation to associate the disorderly direction of the flight of the birds that face and collide, with the always erratic and volatile trajectories of the crowds.
It costs to get out of that world of absolute abstraction where “What you see is what it is”and there is no more explanation, as he said Dan Flavinwho denied the theoretical discourse as a consecration support to lock artists. However, Flavin worked with neon and said that the light wrapped the viewer and made him “the living element” of his work. For this interpretive drift an overwhelming memory arises immediately: Jackson Pollock. In front of Dripping, the liquid paint ties that Pollock threw with a stick on the fabric that placed on the floor, the viewer can feel that they link it. Those who find in the precise place to look at the painting can enter it, becoming the “living element” of Dan Flavin. Genuinely. Pollock Try the sensitive spectators who stop to contemplate those skeins of paint and get carried away, this experience. Everything goes through the eyes. Also those heavens that arouse the desire to fly and be a bird more among Burgos who, disoriented, are not known if they go or if they return. As Rafael Alberdi’s dove, which “was wrong /to go to the north, went to the south.”
The contemplation of the heavens of Fabián Burgos With their flocks, they do not link to the one who looks, like the chorreaduras of Pollock. They are perceived rather as an invitation to share the trip, to fly, like their birds, free in search of a destination, despite the ambiguity of the message.
The associations immediately bring to memory, the intimidating crows also black of Van Gogh flying over the trigals. The readings of those paintings say they are the omen of death. But nothing is so easy. Van Gogh writes to GAUGUIN From the doctor’s clinic Gachetin 1890, about the difficulty involved in understanding a work: “It is a fabric that you, me, and a few will understand, as we would like to understand …”
Of course, the hallucinations of the film “The birds” of Hitchcock, They were also present. But the flocks of Burgosalthough they resemble the seagull that hurts the protagonist, they do not seem so aggressive and sinister. The New York painter of the 80s and film director, Julian Schnabelhe filmed “Van Gogh, at the gates of eternity”masterfully interpreted by Willem Dafoe. Schnabel explores the era of trigals and crows and, on the other hand, affirms that Van Gogh He painted a picture per day and did not commit suicide. They say that before death all memories of life are crowded. The truth is that, in the face of some very special works, which touch the sensitive fiber, parade the history of art.
Source: Ambito
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