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their dynamic qualities: the artist succeeds polychromatic composition has not matured
in representing shapes through a game of through rational thoughts, but via impressions,
strengths and energies that are released commotions and euphoric excitements. In this
through reciprocal interactions, thus managing way the painter recreates the emotional track
to reproduce the expressive value of objects. generated by external visions. His works have
a very high conceptual level, triggered entirely
Ygartua’s art is a means of understanding the by the intense observation of a world which is
power of the vital movements of the world, a more sensorial than material.
way of realizing its value and its power; his
creations offer spectators the opportunity The pictorial components are elaborated
to comprehend the relationships that exist quickly, in a crescendo of tonal and gestural
between the various elements that make evolutions. If the colored scenes recreate a slow,
up reality. In works like “Dark Interlude”, synthetic and apparently two-dimensional
“Infinity” or “Kaleidoscope” all the vibrations progress, the expressive orchestrations in the
and movements that animate reality come to foreground succeed in transmitting movement
life in the form of agglomerates of shapes and to the whole visual structure, conveying body
colours which accumulate and pursue each and life to the work. The artist hasn’t simply
other in sequence. identified and selected certain features of the
sensitive world, but has chosen to recreate its
Everything seems to be fragmented, against a expressive dynamics.
monochrome background, or created with just
a few shades, with the addition of splinters Inside these visual statements, where the
of consistency and small planes of segmented work is an authentic emotional thought and
objectivity. a tribute to the flow of vital energy, one also
finds formal references, included largely for
The combination of parts explodes in a single their metaphoric significance rather than for
point: it’s as though a calm and static surface their objective value. Excerpt.
has split open (from the Greek chaos) and a Flora Rovigo, Art Historian, Italy
throbbing organic mass has deflagrated. This
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