Paintings
Contemporary Altarpieces
The “Contemporary Altar pieces” series was born during the pandemic, when humanity began to value life more deeply in the face of death’s nearness.
With God more present during this profound moment of introspection, spirituality and the “self” led humanity to awaken through practices like yoga, meditation, nutrition, and prayer. Identity and spirituality merged in the search for the “inner self.”
The man watched the movie of his life…
I remembered the church retablos that narrate stories of God. Transported in wooden boxes like triptychs and polyptychs, they were filled with symbolic and spiritual imagery.
Inspired by this, I revisited photographs I had taken over the years and selected people and scenes where the “self” was present in various forms. I narrated their invented stories using my drawings on acrylic boxes.
Unlike the traditional ones, contemporary retablos do not express the search for God outside of ourselves, but within. As part of the universe, we are his creation.
Imaginary Cities
My work involves a reflection on sites and humans. I combine figurative elements of the cities and people that I have been exposed to in my trips. Urban situations, urban life deeply affects and transforms our existential experience as individuals. I am concerned with how the visual environment models our perception of the world. We are shaped and altered by the modes and manners of the city we lived in. The city becomes the scene of our pulsations and drives. We are like suspended marionettes hovering over multiple imaginary strings, perched over incidents and events that daily amend our lives. Urban scenery is represented through scattered elements and fragmented segments of the city: landmark buildings, such as Russian Byzantine churches, Art Deco theaters, Celtic palaces or ancients vestibules and arcades from Greek and Roman times pass through our eyes in looking the paintings; street elements such as light posts, park benches, trees; domestic elements, such as chairs, house fans, tables; house and public stairs and swimming pools; highways, tunnels, bridges, obelisks, and squares. They set as a delirious compound of city signals and urban paths we cross over each day of our lives I want to represent our city spaces as a new visual model. The viewer will be confronted to hectic and rambling locations where one can journey and stray. They are aerial spaces populated by surprises and dream like visions in which the most humble and unnoticed city components are spotlighted.
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The colors in my paintings represent emotional tones of the city landscapes.
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My paintings focus on the ethos of life and the bliss of living.
