My interest lies in concepts that are basic to the human condition and basic to the act of painting.
Consciousness questions our existence, defines the essence of 'Man' and provides its dignity. It give us a project of existence, always susceptible of change; the capacity to feel and to reason.
My work deals with the idea of the essential on what makes us human. I approach it from painting which has been basic to human expression throughout history.
The balance of painting that allows us to the power of abstraction or thoughts as well as the power of feeling. Furthermore the capacity to reflect on our own nature, to abstract but also to feel: the rational and sensuous experience.
In order to expand on these concerns, my knowledge and interests range from philosophy to science and the experience of life.
Playfulness as an inner condition to human nature, playful thinking, the pleasure to discover, to learn, it is there for the development of my ideas and artwork.
I was interested in the idea of play, using games as a source and metaphor for expressing these thoughts through an expanded field of painting.
Games as well as my own systems provided me with rules as a base for the paintings, issuing instructions and outlining my strategies. I also allow self-determination and the element of chance to enter the painting process in order to reflect on subjectivity versus the accidental. I hand-paint basic shapes in order to reinforce human activity and it’s imperfectness.
There is the questioning whether humans create order to feel in control, to understand the unpredictable reality, whilst as individuals also have the urge to feel free.
I am interested in the various abstract systems that human consciousness uses to understand life. For instance, I have used geometry as one of the systems that we have developed to measure and understand reality.
Geometry can be seen as a live creature that continually evolves.
In the series ‘Flowing’ (2008-09) I explored how geometric shapes make different figures that potentially make up space, the world.
‘Flowing’ could be seen as a puzzle made of geometric shapes found in a mathematical source that grows in complexity. A basic square is cut with an arch. The combination of this partition makes the rest of the shapes that are part of the puzzle. These are combined to make figures creating a field of possibilities defined by certain forms.
The series 'IKI' (2010) I am interested in interweaving painting as language and language itself as essential ways of human communication, expression. Abstract painting using as a source the written language. Both intertwine creating a dialogue: The realization of language as an abstract form that becomes the painting structure that also provides ideas and questions the limits of written language. And abstract painting as also language, as a means of structuring colour toward a meaning both felt, and intellectually understood.
In a group of work called ‘Nationless’ (2009) I hold a phenomenological, critical and also playful reflection on the nationalistic feeling that people have attached to flags. The work is made up of a small group of abstract paintings reminiscent of flags, a dialogue about abstract signs and abstract painting. Methodologically I have reduced all formal information of world flags and removed nationalistic symbols such as stars or half moons. Furthermore, I changed all colours therefore removing seriousness and emphasizing the abstract in the paintings.
The term ‘phenomenology’ refers to disciplined ways of investigating and analyzing experience in the first-person. The physicality of the artwork and colour become important. Energy is contained in matter and the latest is perceived in colours or light.
I experiment with textures and colour –when light impacts on matter, I believe it has relevance in understanding how we feel and perceive reality.
I want to I create a space for experimentation and playfulness within painting. I want my artwork to have an immense energy, both vibrant and full of humanity.