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The learning process of a painter is long because, as in every profession, we go learning from our own mistakes. The more we progress in the control of the techniques, the more possibilities we find to say what we want and be better understood.

Bocaccio said about Giotto's paintings that do not just delight the eyes but also please the intellect. This is one possible form of Art, the one that, according to Ernst Gombrich, uses a "narrative conceptual symbolism".

In medieval Art, the existence of shared symbols allowed the common understanding between the painter and who looked at the paintings. Those symbols were related to the figures, the gestures or the colours. Many have been forgotten, others have changed, but not all. For this exhibition we have chosen one of the narratives of the creation of the world, the one according to the Jewish and Christian tradition.

When working on this story, we rely on a shared substrate serves as a meeting point between painter and viewer. If the viewer would keep looking at enough at the painting, his mind will wander freely, arriving at places where perhaps the painter has not arrived and, in this way, enriching the work with new meanings.


   

Three steps for  "The tree of life" ("El árbol de la vida")
Gold, gesso and egg tempera on panel. 100x 100 cm





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Paintings, photos and text by Rosa Mascarell

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