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Mixed midea on Canvas, 60X80

Last Year, I went to pompei, my purpose was essentially visiting 2 spaces: The Villa of Mysteries and the Mosaics of the House of the Golden Bracelet, but unfortunately I could not see them. (The first House or Villa is opening now).It was very disappointing but the idea was inside of my brain and what I really wanted to do here was to explore the so well-known Rosso Pompeiano or at least work with the explosion of a vivid red, and work the textures and feelings given  by the ancient walls present all over the city.

Really,  I'm not very concerned in representing the history of their figures or try to represent them in an accurate anatomic way. I don't want to make a perfect figure, or paint a representation near to the reality. What gains sense to me here is the brushstroke, the corrections made intentionally to be seen, scrape where is needed, charcoal over the painted area if necessary...things like that. 

Again the spirit of ancient walls, of purity, of the nothing present in the first works of the 1990's are back! Because this, was what they were. The works made in 1994 in Óbidos were an approach to the "matter", to the rough constitution of things, many times to the nothing the walls of Óbidos gave to me. These were times I constructed and invented geometric spaces and divisions,or stains of a simple hole I had seen in a wall.

Not all the works are finished (the first 2 are finished), but all the paintings I've already started need to be here in the present website: even if unfinished. (at this moment I believe they will be at least 6)

Not only have I been caught by the colours of those Frescos, but also for the modernity of some of their figures, which are very very modern to that time, and in the end they clearly exemplify the road I've been searching for more than 20 years. If you doubt, look at the first works, those red ones. Everything has a purpose, and the road to the sense is there and now here. Look at the their holes in

the ground, it is as if I already knew they would be present in my works 20 years later..