I would like to explain the artistic process
from the creative mind of the artist.
Most of the time art is perceived as
something that just "hangs there", and nobody knows why it is there
or what the thought of the artist is...
People want an explanations,
so I am going to try to give an explanation of this painting,
because this painting represents something special.
For so many years I have kept saying...
...I have to go and see the Aurora Borealis because,
I can´t die without seeing them..."
But I have never seen them
or even looked for them in a photo or video,
because I didn´t want to spoil the magic.
I even tried painting them before, using those greens and pinks,
but..well... you could see something but...
it wasn´t right, because I have never seen the Auroras before
and I only imagined that they were colours on the sky.
My obsession bloomed
when I finally went to see them
I made a trip around several countries, really beautiful
apart from the Auroras I saw so many other
super-mega-marvelous things
from the Arctic and Iceland.
But my real obsession was
how to capture the real essence of the Aurora
the essence of that magnitude
all those kilometers of height, and the movement
I will explain one day about the movement, I don´t know how,
but I couldn´t capture it in this one here
because... this is a painting of course!
Although apart from the movement
I was really upset with the fact that it wasn´t just paint
because you can paint this,
but the paint is heavy and it has a density
and this doesn´t have a density
these are lines on the air that vanish in thousandths of seconds
they are like curtains on the air,
they are gasses
I was thinking in the airplanes...
How am I going to do this?
To reflect a gas
that evaporates
and fades into black
and doesn´t have hard cuts... but it has lines
and it has perfect gradient
This lighting has light
So harmonious. So intense.
So luminous. So light
That doesn´t have any weight
I have had to develop some new concrete techniques
that I´ve never used before
to get as close as possible to this result.
I´m truly happy
because I believe that I´ve reached
abstract hyper-realism
The Aurora is a pure abstraction.
Nothing else exists that is as abstract as this
colours and stains in the sky
Greens and pinks moving
No two seconds are the same.
For me this painting, apart from the personal meaning
is an example of life.
How you have to fail so many times to find a final result,
because a good result doesn´t come easily at first
And to reach this painting I´ve had to fail a few times before.
Because I didn´t find what I wanted
Maybe I´m a bit of a perfectionist
I don´t know if that´s good or bad
but I was really frustrated because
I was spending a lot of time, materials, money
and everything to reach an effect that
It could pass for some green stains
and possibly the painting could be beautiful
but it wasn´t what I wanted
I´m going to put a video
that I finished painting really frustrated and depressed.
I´m really angry
Because I´m trying to paint
a shitty Aurora Borealis
and it is impossible
The Paining is doing whatever it wants
And they are in a specific way
They are not puddles!
What do I do... What is this for
How long does it take you to do it?
How long?
This doesn´t have time or price
But everything
everything has to go to the bin
The vertical lines have to be vertical
Because if they are curved they are not.
In the end, all of this is just
solving problems that you create yourself
I could take a painting that I know by memory
and repeat it with techniques and materials that I already know.
I believe that my way of painting is through experimentation
So If I reach something that I like, I cannot repeat it, and that´s it
It loses meaning for me
It´s like: "great, I got it, stupendous, I´m happy
now put it away"
And that is the next step of evolution
This is not the end of my career
this is the end of today
tomorrow I want to do a bigger painting
and I already know these new techniques
I´m going to use them again, but I will improve them.
What I´m interested in is to capture the sensations.
I am not based in images, I didn´t copy this from anywhere.
Everything is made from memory
So this was a process of big introspections
into your memories, in what you felt.
Think about a situation that is happening to you,
and try to think how, on a big white canvas,
how you would express that?
What would you do without any pictures.
Which shape, which textures, which colours,
which rhythm, vibration, would you use to express that?
That sensation that has been provoked by something particular in your life.
And the important thing for me is to know
that this painting wouldn´t be possible,
first of all
if I Wouldn´t have had the courage of going to see the Aurora in person
and see how they really were.
Not trust photos and say "oh yea, they are like that".
Then coming back thinking
"how am I going to do this?"
There is no existing technique for this, I have to invent it.
To fearlessly break the painting.
I suppose the matter is,
to not be afraid of the format
or spending money in materials,
or losing time in investigation
because investigation is a long process, and really exasperating
in which you find one while you lose twenty...
But you didn´t lose, you´ve invested.
For me the mistake has always been the base of my evolution
and even if it sounds like a big topic
Many times I´ve been looking for something, and by mistake I pour something,
or by mistake I took the wrong bottle,
and I said "shit, I´ve screwed up"
No
and you stop for a second,
you look at what you´ve done and you say
"huh, look, I didn´t know that"
It´s not that I left things to fate,
it´s that I´m open to listen to the materials
and listen to the painting.
It isn´t always what I say
I know that I don´t have the absolute truth,
and sometimes the paint talks to you.
This might sound crazy,
but it´s true that sometimes you have to listen.
As an anecdote,
like Velazquez and all the others
who put themselves into their paintings,
I´ve done this as well.
Even if it is a bit hidden, I´ve put myself in here, really small
This is me
This is also for you to see this magnitude and the human scale
I consider this the size of a person,
so you can imagine how big the Aurora is.
I lost the light...
but I can see.
So what I want to express with this video,
that success and failure, are intrinsically joined.
Maybe you are lucky and you get there first. Ok.
But in general
you have to fail a lot without desperation
because in each of them you learn,
Like Edison said
"All the ways how not to make a lightbulb"
So I learned a lot of ways how not to make an Aurora
I wanted to share this little bit of me and my painting,
and how you have to carry on fighting because
you cannot get down
when you don´t get what you want.
Because so many times, success is
just around the corner.
Subtitles by Duncan Cameron and Carmen Arquelladas
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