The City narratives and its system of inner transformation such as its human component are aesthetically and discursively represented in my work.
In the works a sense of non-territoriality seems to clash with the Maps, places and patterns which preceded the rapid expansion Practices and its advanced and modern traces which begun to take place in the beginning of the 20th Century. Such traces replaced the Nineteenth-Century Model of cities such as Paris, as an example, to make reference of an inescapable model such as Santiago’s Structures, and more so for initiating relations between local and global. Such tradition, the
Architecture of the 19th Century, has been suspended in History by Modernism not only in architecture
But in the visual arts as well, which is where the work indicates the movement of urban and aesthetic structures through the paintings.
In today’s world the edification scene is a spectrum that varies rapidly in time, which calls for adaptation and mutation. Because of a series of belligerent, political and economical reasons, cities have experimented structural changes, in a contract with powerful conventionalities such as agreeing and belonging to the globalized world. notice the rhythm, the speeding urban process, create a visual proposal which distances from evidence and emerges from traces, lines, colors and stains, a personal vision about time and space variations reflected in today’s urban structures.
From an aesthetic point of view, the work can be categorized into two different spaces: the panoramic Urban Growth scene portraying different directions and points of view, and in another plane, more engineered landscapes which depict a direct relationship between men-kind in its habitat, the City.
Starting with the first Space, Panoramic Landscapes; an aerial point of view which depicts the shape of an architectural floor-plan view, as a two-dimensional projection space. Never the less at the base of each floor-plan some new dimensions occur and they mesh into the interior of the fabric, generating tensions and hybrids which reference the constant map transformations, blueprints, which where original at first and now opened-up and distanced themselves into a more cubist style which suggests a stare of tension applied to the portrayed object. There is a narrative which presents memory crisis, its vulnerability, because in the spectacle of “the contemporary”, the happening cities have restructured their history through political access to the capitalist market model.
I express in my paintings, the relationships between stable and mutable, between permanent and ephemeral, while building a reflection space about the limits of domestic elements within a moving scene into an undetermined and generalized space, open to endless directions which exceed the architectural plan-view. Through such technique, perspective amplification, I state the territory crisis as a unity within time, becoming the architect of eternal transformation.
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