Abu’s memories
My grandmother used to tell me this tale about the destiny of a poor street boy who didn't want to go to school.
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36 x 82 cm.
Typographic box. Walnut ink and sumie on Chinese paper.
Private collection.
Year: 2001
Abu’s memories
36 x 82 cm.
Year: 2001
Riddle
100 x 100 cm.
Sand, tea bags, tie rack, stones, strip, buttons, bronze layers, gouache, acrylic and gesso on paper. Automatic pen and brushes.
Year: 2005
Riddle
100 x 100 cm.
Year: 2005
Blue Alpha
“Letters are symbols which turn matter into spirit.”
Lamartine.
22 x 134.5 cm.
Pentel brush, brushes, gouache and acrylic, bronze layers, gesso and tea bags on canvas. Colouring with gouaches.
Year: 2002
Blue Alpha
22 x 134.5 cm.
Year: 2002
Alpha & Beta: alphabets
History of calligraphic alphabets.
90 x 60 cm.
Sumie, temperas and pencil on Arches paper. Collage with leaves on canvas.
Private collection.
Year: 2000
Alpha & Beta: alphabets
90 x 60 cm.
Year: 2000
Animal, vegetable and mineral
100 x 100 cm.
Gesso, acrylic, tea bags, fired objects on canvas.
Year: 1993
Animal, vegetable and mineral
100 x 100 cm.
Year: 1993
We Still Can't Understand
“So many words written from the beginning, so many strokes, so many signs, so many paintings, such a necessity to explain and understand, and at the same time so much difficulty because we still haven't finished explaining and yet can't understand“.
José Saramago from his book “Manual de Pintura and Caligrafía“.
90 x 100 cm.
Acrylic, walnut ink, sumie, gesso, sand, tea bags, bronze layers on canvas and Dimagraf paper. Collage of old letters and documents. Nibs and brushes.
Year: 2004
We Still Can't Understand
90 x 100 cm.
Year: 2004
Bead Necklaces
70 x 50 cm.
Gesso, acrylic, sewed objects on canvas.
Year: 1993
Bead Necklaces
70 x 50 cm.
Year: 1993
Under Sea
70 x 50 cm.
Gesso, acrylic and sewed objects on canvas.
Year: 1993
Under Sea
70 x 50 cm.
Year: 1993
Tea Ceremony
“Shall I meet you? Shall I listen to you? Shall I talk to you? Shall I hug you? Shall I kiss you? Shall I squeeze you? Shall I catch you? Shall I asphyxiate you? Shall I love you?” Jorge Bucay.
50 x 80 cm.
Gesso, acrylic, walnut ink and tea bags on canvas.
Private collection.
Year: 2001
Tea Ceremony
50 x 80 cm.
Year: 2001
Magic Square
Shu Legend: In ancient times in China, there was a huge flood. The people tried to offer some sacrifice to the river god "Lo", to calm his anger. However, every time a sacrifice was offered, a turtle came out from the river and walked around. The river god didn't accept the sacrifice until one time, a child noticed the curious figure on the turtle's shell. Hence they realized the correct amount of sacrifice to make was 15. This Magic Square is particularly interesting when you find out that the addition of the rows in all directions, that is to say, horizontal, vertical and diagonal equals 15. The union of the numbers in its natural order creates a perfect geometric figure.
75 x 75 cm.
Acrylic, gesso, tea bags on cardboard, bronze and copper leaves, gouache and watercolour on Strathmore paper. Nibs and brushes.
Private collection.
Year: 2000
Magic Square
75 x 75 cm.
Year: 2000
Worthy Signs
50 x 70 cm.
Gesso, sand and sewed objects on canvas.
Year: 1993
Worthy Signs
50 x 70 cm.
Year: 1993
The Pendulum II
30 x 100 cm.
Sand, gesso, sewed objects on canvas.
Private collection.
Year: 1992
The Pendulum II
30 x 100 cm.
Year: 1992
The Pendulum I
50 x 90 cm.
Sand, gesso, sewed objects on canvas.
Year: 1993
The Pendulum I
50 x 90 cm.
Year: 1993
On Grass Lawn
In homage to Van Gogh
70 x 100 cm.
Gesso, acrylic, sewed objects and grass lawn on canvas.
Year: 1993
On Grass Lawn
70 x 100 cm.
Year: 1993
Alphabet prescription for happiness
32 x 207 cm.
Pentel brush, folded pen, brushes, gouache and acrylic, gesso and tea bags on canvas..
Year: 2002
Alphabet prescription for happiness
32 x 207 cm.
Year: 2002
Language
“The visual representation of language continues to be one of man's highest, most distinctive and most varied achievements”.
Spine. Fine & Reese, page 36.
50 x 68 cm.
Acrylic, gesso and sand on canvas. Sumie and walnut ink on Chinese and Arches paper. Nibs, folded pen and brushes.
Private collection.
Year: 2000
Language
50 x 68 cm.
Year: 2000
Letters are symbols
“Letters are symbols which turn matter into spirit.“ Lamartine.
100 x 135 cm.
Acrylic, sumie and gouache. Copper layers and nails on canvas. Folded pen and Japanese brushes.
Year: 2006
Letters are symbols
100 x 135 cm.
Year: 2006
Life Force
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickering that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all times, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. You must keep this channel open. It is not for you to determine how good it is or how valuable, or how it compares with other expressions. It is for you to keep it yours, clearly and directly.“ Martha Graham.
90 x 100 cm.
Paste paper, gesso, tea bags, copper and bronze layers, nibs on canvas. Acrylic, gouache, nibs, folded, brushes.
Private collection.
Year: 2004
Life Force
90 x 100 cm.
Year: 2004
The Stone Spring
70 x 100 cm.
Gesso, paper waste and sewed objects on canvas.
Private collection.
Year: 1993
The Stone Spring
70 x 100 cm.
Year: 1993
Martín Fierro
Texto from José Hernández
“I sit here to sing my song
To the best of my old guitar;
For the man whose life is a bitter cup
With a song may yet his heart lift up,
As the lonely bird on the leafless tree,
That sings neath the gloaming star”
90 x 100 cm.
Gesso, sand, acrylic, gouache on paper and canvas. Folded pen and brushes.
Year: 2002
Martín Fierro
90 x 100 cm.
Year: 2002
Message from the Past
“The more a culture and its myth move away from the simple forms, and the more complex its spiritual world turns, more difficult will become its interpretation.”
100 x 80 cm.
Sand, gesso, acrylic, walnut ink, stone, twigs and strings o canvas and Chinese paper.
Private collection.
Year: 2001
Message from the Past
100 x 80 cm.
Year: 2001
The Wall of Treasures
70 x 100 cm.
Sand, gesso, fired objects on canvas.
Year: 1992
The Wall of Treasures
70 x 100 cm.
Year: 1992
Hair and Comb
70 x 50 cm.
Gesso and sewed objects on canvas.
Year: 1993
Hair and Comb
70 x 50 cm.
Year: 1993
Pentecost
“And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then said he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.”
100 x 130 cm.
Gesso and sand on canvas. String knots, tea bags and nails. Acrylic, walnut ink and gouache an Arches paper. Nibs and brushes.
Year: 2000
Pentecost
100 x 130 cm.
Year: 2000
Penden Stones
60 x 60 cm.
Gesso, tea bags, acrylic, stones and strings on 4 frames.
Year: 1993
Penden Stones
60 x 60 cm.
Year: 1993
The Night of Feathers
34 x 27 cm.
Gesso, sand and fired objects on canvas.
Year: 1994
The Night of Feathers
34 x 27 cm.
Year: 1994
Scraps
“Pieces of me, pieces of my soul, shreds of my past. Only parts which used to be a whole.”
52 x 70 cm.
Pieces of paper, nails, gesso and sand, strings and clips. Inks and chalk pastels. Cedar box.
Year: 2006
Scraps
52 x 70 cm.
Year: 2006