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.