TRAMAS, Madrid 2022

The TRAMAS series consists of a set of paintings based on fragments of works by Baroque artists on episodes of Greco-Roman mythology and sacred history, and a series of drawings on paper based on sculptures of female characters from Greek mythology, in which the woman’s body, naked and highly eroticized, is the central element of representation.

The oils are painted on canvas prepared with a dense primer to, once the motif is painted, be able to mistreat that surface, crackling and aging it.

In order for the punished fragments of the female body to take an absolute prominence, the adjacent elements of the painting surrounding the flesh have been covered by a layer of opaque blue-green paint.

The paintings are girded by a thin rope that perhaps aims to protect them and stop their deterioration and the fall of the pictorial layer or perhaps seeks only to tie the images themselves.

The drawings are made with graphite and bar conté on paper. In certain parts of the drawing, stitches have been sewn with a thin rope, to restore the wounds and fissures produced by time and censorship.

Once this composition is finished, the drawing is fragmented and torn apart, and then the image is restored as a puzzle joining these pieces, leaving the marks produced by the tearing of the paper