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ationally interpreting a work of abstract art or even just using

rverbal language to try and introduce someone to its perception

can become an endless journey. the spectator, forced into a purely

aesthetic, non-sensorial knowledge, risks floundering in informal

magma, getting lost in swamps of misunderstanding and ambiguity.

understanding the creative mechanisms which lead to artistic

conception, establishing how the artist has transformed intuition into

pictorial material and reading the result is always difficult.

Paul Ygartua´s works are ideal for this kind of analysis, because we

find images of an apparently transfigured reality, subtracted from

every formal reference and, consequently, from a superficial and

impenetrable reading. what attracts us is the exasperated chromatism,

which invades the canvas until it dominates it completely.

we are enraptured by the chaos of the colours that juxtapose thanks

to quick brushstrokes or broader touches, created using a spatula. but

while the spectator sees color as a catalyst, for Ygartua chromatics and

the application of color encourage the flow of instinctive trends. the

british artist’s compositions aren’t artistic translations of a solid world,

but interpretations of the more impulsive, passionate and energetic part

of the universe. depending on how this energetic motion reaches the

PrIMordIaL chaoS bY FLora roVIGo, art hIStorIan, FLorEncE ItaLY

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