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Spain
Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 20.5 W x 36.6 H x 0.2 D in
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Painting can be psychoanalytical. This is a case in point. I began on New Year's day, canvas completely fresh and mind free. I treated the board, and I set it alight to prepare it, to prepare a ritual space. I confess I was a little disconcerted to see the childlike figure of a skier emerge from the canvas (wood-board actually). I went with it and one of the ski-poles developed into a series of growing circular swishes. I left it there and when I returned, the young skier was looking at a monstrous face. A more benevolent senex developed on the top right. I still didn't know what this was ... and I didn't much like it. Yesterday I accepted a lunch invitation from three elderly widows and my elderly sister. I accepted the lunch out of respect for my ancestors, and in the midst I realized that my painting was about my father. The circles growing out of the racket were a vortex pulling me deeper within. Today his "normal" face came to me in a rush, and I realized these were all his faces, and that I was reconciling with the many sides of his nature.
Painting:Acrylic on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:20.5 W x 36.6 H x 0.2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Italy.
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Spain
I am Italian-born, and grew up in Africa from the age of 12, in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia). I studied Geology and Chemistry in Cape Town, South Africa, but I was always intrigued by philosophy, and art. I sought to answer Gauguin's three questions: "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" by living and assisting in the development of alternative lifestyle communities. Later I worked for many years in hi-tech/internet technology in the USA, UK, and the Netherlands before moving to la Gomera, and dedicating myself to painting. Artist's Statement My inspiration are the island of la Gomera, its people, and a constant flow of personal memories. I follow a method I call "chaos-based" painting. Whether engaged with a portrait or landscape I paint my expressionistic experience of the subject. More often I like to start a canvas empty of all concepts of what might emerge, without aim nor end-result in mind. I believe true art emerges from beyond me, and I am, at best, its instrument. So although my paintings are figurative, they often begin as abstracts, gathering form over time. You may see the results in the section called Gallery - Revelations. I sign my work as "brazza" - the Italian Africa-explorer - as a reminder to keep learning, and to meet new challenges with his grace, and magnanimity. For all inquiries (availability and price of originals and prints), please contact me at mmenato@gmail.com
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