“If I have practiced Alchemy, it was in the only way it can be practiced today, that is, without knowing it.”
Marcel Duchamp
Buenos Aires (1971) – Barcelona (1974). I grew up and trained in Fine Arts in Barcelona. I currently live and work between Barcelona and Mallorca.
I conceive of my work as an alchemical process, one that has led me, series after series and piece after piece, to a distillation — of narrative, of form, of line, of color, of space, and of the surrounding light.
The canvas functions as a container/athanor for a process, where the image is built element by element, generating a space that is light, deep, and transparent, in which all the moments of execution are compressed into one. The result is a map of the process’s timeframes, of movement, where the multiplicity of lines and pictorial planes is orchestrated as a CREATIVE CODE with a life of its own.
Within this alchemical conception of the work, I have made forays into ceramic sculpture, creating containers of processes, retorts, and alembics, which stimulate my more playful and performative side. The work has become installational, and the wall has been integrated as an essential part of the piece. The wall and the space that frames the work are conceived as the place where the work takes place, as a retort in which the viewer is immersed. The surrounding light — natural light and the artificial light of devices that illuminate and reflect off the work — is incorporated into the piece, generating multiple contemplative experiences. As the light shifts over time, or as the viewer moves around the piece, the work changes and mutates, painted as it is in metallic, iridescent, or fluorescent colors. This process has led me to integrate the vibration of light from devices that strike the work, exploring their use as frames or boundaries within a composition.
In recent years I have centered my work on a series of pictorial and sculptural pieces born from my research into aspects of the Western esoteric tradition — Kabbalah, alchemy, astrology — and from my profession as a web developer. Another important pillar is the work of Marcel Duchamp: his concepts of the Voyeur, the integration of surrounding light into the work as in the Large Glass, and his flirtation with the Western esoteric tradition, with concepts such as the Bride and the Bachelor. These references have accompanied me throughout my practice.
“I know that this statement will not meet with the approval of many artists who refuse this mediumistic role and insist on the validity of their awareness in the creative act — yet, art history has consistently decided upon the virtues of a work of art through considerations completely divorced from the rationalized explanations of the artist.”
Marcel Duchamp – “The Creative Act” (1957)