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extension of the body, and is in harmony with the body’s spectator’s feelings. What is that alchemic secret which
language and all of its movements. makes lines and color spats into that pleasant symphony
to the eye, or otherwise, into on expression of
Now that we have crossed the end of the millennium, controversial feelings, like pain or anxiety. fike a scientist
and the car fills most domains of our lives, we constantly trying to magnify subtle matter in the search for an
witness the detriment that excessive use of the motor answer, intend to de-construct painting into its basic
car caused to our environment. Now is the time for the elements in order to investigate its significance. I try to
glory of the cycling culture. Millions of people in China separate each brush stroke and to assemble it again, this
and India still use the bicycle as their means of time discarding any narrative meaning, in a process
transportation, while in the Western world, people are parallel to the atom fragmentation.
returning to it as a solution for recreational needs.
Cycling - as a sport, as a way of experiencing open During this process I discovered formal richness and
spaces, enjoying nature and relishing the slow pace of spiritual pleasure in every brush stroke, each one having
motion. Perhaps the bicycle will ultimately be the one to its ownspecial character and inner energy, also being in
save us from the damages of modern technology... itself a reflection of the virtuosity of the hand that paints
thousands of them, building together a complex melody
that vibrates in our imagination.
ANATOMY OF PAINTING
I wish to penetrate right through the color layers into the
Art theoreticians all through history tried to de-code the heart ai the painting and in this way to reach a deeper
mistery and magic of the moment when a colored understanding of its anatomy.
surface turnes into an image capable of touching the
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